Attention budding directors, design nerds, After Effects tinkerers and Tay Zonday fans. Six new 2008 VMA categories have just been announced, and you’ll be glad to know (or at least I am), that Erykah Badu, Death Cab for Cutie, and Weezer did not get overlooked.
Erykah Badu’s “Honey” homage is up for three out of the six new categories, Death Cab for Cutie’s meat locker love song “I Will Possess Your Heart” is up for two, and Weezer’s “Pork and Beans” squeaked in too. Good damn thing too, because it would’ve been a crime if that gem had been overlooked.
The new categories focus on video design, direction, and … DANCE! They’re sorta like the technical Oscars, but more exciting. And speaking of the Oscars, the new categories are:
+ Best Art Direction: Welcome, MGMT and White Stripes!
+ Best Choreography: Two Chris Brown videos up in here. Big shocker there. And Adele and Gnarls Barkley make an appearance!
+ Best Cinematography: Breakneck competition here between Badu, Death Cab, Katy Perry, White Stripes and Pussycat Dolls, who now have SIX nominations — the most of any artist this year.
+ Best Direction: Panic At the Disco, and Rihanna pick up their second noms of the year. Link Park picks up their third.
+ Best Editing: Will Katy Perry, Erykah Badu, Death Cab, and Ne-Yo get served by Weezer’s “Pork and Beans”?
+ Best Special Effects: Coldplay enters the race with “Violet Hill,” and so Kanye doesn’t throw a fit, his “Good Life” video’s in there too.
Check out the full list of new categories and nominees, check out Buzzworthy’s interview with “Pork and Beans” director Mathew Cullen, and watch the epic meme montage yet again.