The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards took place Sunday, August 28 from New York’s Madison Square Garden, where the hottest musical acts reunited to celebrate another year of creative, empowering and artistic videos from the past year.
This year Beyoncé led the pack with 11 nominations and took home eight Moonmen including Video of the Year. Although Adele, with her Xavier Dolan-directed “Hello,” garnered a successful eight noms, she left empty handed.
Other winners of the night include Drake, Dnce, David Bowie and Coldplay. See the full list of winners below.
Read More: MTV Vma 2016 Live Stream: Watch the Video Music Awards Live Online
Video of the Year
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Director: Melina Matsoukas
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Director: Director X
Justin Bieber – “Sorry”
Director: Parris Goebel
Kanye West – “Famous”
Director: Kanye West
Best Female Video
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Hold Up”
Director: Jonas Åkerlund, Beyoncé Knowles...
This year Beyoncé led the pack with 11 nominations and took home eight Moonmen including Video of the Year. Although Adele, with her Xavier Dolan-directed “Hello,” garnered a successful eight noms, she left empty handed.
Other winners of the night include Drake, Dnce, David Bowie and Coldplay. See the full list of winners below.
Read More: MTV Vma 2016 Live Stream: Watch the Video Music Awards Live Online
Video of the Year
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Director: Melina Matsoukas
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Director: Director X
Justin Bieber – “Sorry”
Director: Parris Goebel
Kanye West – “Famous”
Director: Kanye West
Best Female Video
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Hold Up”
Director: Jonas Åkerlund, Beyoncé Knowles...
- 8/29/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
MTV has announced the nominees for the 11th annual Video Music Awards, with Beyoncé’s 11 nods leading the pack. Adele is up for eight awards, meanwhile, including Best Director for the Xavier Dolan–directed “Hello”; she’s up against Bey, Drake, Justin Bieber and Kanye West in that category. Full list below:
Video of the Year
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Director: Melina Matsoukas
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Director: Director X
Justin Bieber – “Sorry”
Director: Parris Goebel
Kanye West – “Famous”
Director: Kanye West
Best Female Video
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Hold Up”
Director: Jonas Åkerlund, Beyoncé Knowles Carter
Sia – “Cheap Thrills”
Director: Lior Molcho
Ariana Grande – “Into You”
Director: Hannah Lux Davis
Rihanna ft. Drake – “Work” (short version)
Director: Director X
Best Male Video
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Director: Director X
Bryson Tiller – “Don’t”
Director: Cris
Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna – “This Is What You Came For”
Director:...
Video of the Year
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Formation”
Director: Melina Matsoukas
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Director: Director X
Justin Bieber – “Sorry”
Director: Parris Goebel
Kanye West – “Famous”
Director: Kanye West
Best Female Video
Adele – “Hello”
Director: Xavier Dolan
Beyoncé – “Hold Up”
Director: Jonas Åkerlund, Beyoncé Knowles Carter
Sia – “Cheap Thrills”
Director: Lior Molcho
Ariana Grande – “Into You”
Director: Hannah Lux Davis
Rihanna ft. Drake – “Work” (short version)
Director: Director X
Best Male Video
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Director: Director X
Bryson Tiller – “Don’t”
Director: Cris
Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna – “This Is What You Came For”
Director:...
- 7/26/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
One of the many highlights of the 2015 BlackStar Film Festival was Tneg: An Exploration, in which Director/cinematographer/producer Arthur Jafa ("Daughters of the Dust," "Dreams Are Colder Than Death") and producer/curator Elissa Blount-Moorhead shared work from Tneg, the studio they head in partnership with Director/cinematographer Malik Sayeed. Afterward, they were joined onstage for an provacative discussion moderated by Shatrelle P. Lewis in which Jafa shared insights gained from four decades of creating images. Blount-Moorhead spoke of the vision for the company whose principal aim is the creation of a black cinema “capable of matching the power, beauty and...
- 8/4/2015
- by Michael Dennis
- ShadowAndAct
Bradford Young’s work on Ava DuVernay’s civil rights biopic Selma and Jc Chandor’s A Most Violent Year landed him on Hollywood’s radar this Oscar season, but it also illuminates the diversity lacking year after year within the film industry and the Academy that represents it. Critics and DuVernay have praised Young’s aptitude for lensing African-American faces onscreen as beautifully as he does in Selma, a film about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s private and public struggles to turn the tide of the voting rights movement. “I’m never satisfied with the way I see my people photographed in movies,” Young confessed to me over the phone before the holidays. “I think it comes from a lack of consciousness – if you grew up in a community where you don’t know black people, I wouldn’t suspect you would photograph them in a concerned way.”
Few...
Few...
- 12/31/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Bradford Young is easily one of the most exciting cinematographers working today. Since igniting on the indie scene with films like "Pariah," "Middle of Nowhere," "Mother of George" and "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," his stock has continued to rise. This holiday season he'll have two very distinct, rich and exquisite films on display in theaters nationwide: Ava DuVernay's Martin Luther King biopic "Selma" and J.C. Chandor's NYC crime drama "A Most Violent Year." So it was with great pleasure that I finally wrangled a chat with the low-key 37-year-old, who makes his home outside of the industry fray in Washington, D.C. Each of these films represents such striking confidence, yet they feel wholly different from one another. They examine darker reaches of the frame with their own curiosity, each of them very specifically influenced by photographers who captured the human face in specific and, in their separate eras,...
- 12/4/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Cinematographers Arthur Jafa ("Daughters of the Dust," "Crooklyn," "Dreams Are Colder Than Death," "Florida Water") and Malik Sayeed ("He Got Game," "Belly") have partnered with Baltimore based curator, lecturer and exhibition designer Elissa Blount-Moorhead, to create a new independent film studio and production company, Tneg. The goal, according, to Ms. Blount-Moorhead, is to develop and produce new black independent films, but films that will also “push what we understand to be new black cinema and to create not just new narratives and but also new aesthetics and technical parameters within black cinema." And...
- 11/11/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Jay-z has denied fathering a child with model Shenelle Scott. The rapper and wife Beyoncé, who married in 2008, are currently expecting their first child together. However, Jay-z was linked to the Trinidad model by the father of a man who was believed to have been wrongly identified as the 9-year-old boy's father. Jerald Andrews told Star magazine that a DNA test had shown that his son Malik Sayeed is not the child's dad and that Jay-z is the father. However, representatives for Jay-z told Allhiphop.com: "There is no truth to these ridiculous rumours. People should be ashamed of using this kind of story and exploiting a child for publicity and ratings." (more)...
- 9/16/2011
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
Jay-z famously told us about his 99 problems, and it looks like a love child could be one of them. Although his wife Beyonce’s pregnancy will make him the most famous daddy in hip hop, rumors are circulating that the 41-year old already has a “secret son.” No, he didn’t pull an “Arnold,” but allegedly fathered a child nine years ago with Trinidad model Shenelle Scott, long before Bebe was his lady.
The report courtesy of Star Magazine reads more like an episode of Maury. Malik Sayeed believed he was the father of Shenelle’s baby, but took a paternity test at the advice of friends who had seen her hangin’ around with the rap star. “Everyone knew she was sleeping around and sleeping with Jay,” Malik’s father told Star. “There was a good chance it was his.” Malik got the test results back two weeks later, which...
The report courtesy of Star Magazine reads more like an episode of Maury. Malik Sayeed believed he was the father of Shenelle’s baby, but took a paternity test at the advice of friends who had seen her hangin’ around with the rap star. “Everyone knew she was sleeping around and sleeping with Jay,” Malik’s father told Star. “There was a good chance it was his.” Malik got the test results back two weeks later, which...
- 9/15/2011
- by Jordan Runtagh
- TheFabLife - Movies
London, Sept 15: It has been claimed that Jay-z allegedly fathered a secret love child with Trinidad model Shenelle Scott.
According to Star magazine, the 41-year-old rapper fathered a young boy nine years ago with the model and is still in contact with her, also giving her child support.
Malik Sayeed had been wrongly identified as the child's father, but DNA reports proved that the '99 Problems' singer is the child's biological father.
"At the time he was born, my son Malik thought he was his child, but they did DNA tests. It's been determined that the child is Jay-z's baby," the Daily Mail quoted Sayeed's.
According to Star magazine, the 41-year-old rapper fathered a young boy nine years ago with the model and is still in contact with her, also giving her child support.
Malik Sayeed had been wrongly identified as the child's father, but DNA reports proved that the '99 Problems' singer is the child's biological father.
"At the time he was born, my son Malik thought he was his child, but they did DNA tests. It's been determined that the child is Jay-z's baby," the Daily Mail quoted Sayeed's.
- 9/15/2011
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
If you are a fan of film you no doubt have heard of a little company with an expansive movie collection, whose sole purpose is to present films as they were meant by the director/film-makers. Not to mention an outpouring of special features that would satisfy any film fan, like behind-the-scenes, short films, essays from film critics, deleted segments and commentaries.
As has been reported on this very website several times before, there is the classic film Black Orpheus which, as it turns out, in its initial release, was a bare bones disc, but now is featured in a beautiful Blu-Ray transfer, with loads of extras, which sparked a thought.
But in hindsight, it’s the beginning of the year and for the past 5+ years or so, since I stumbled upon the pricey expensive discs, I started to realize a bit of a trend. Much of their work was a bit obtuse in vulgarity,...
As has been reported on this very website several times before, there is the classic film Black Orpheus which, as it turns out, in its initial release, was a bare bones disc, but now is featured in a beautiful Blu-Ray transfer, with loads of extras, which sparked a thought.
But in hindsight, it’s the beginning of the year and for the past 5+ years or so, since I stumbled upon the pricey expensive discs, I started to realize a bit of a trend. Much of their work was a bit obtuse in vulgarity,...
- 1/26/2011
- by Tony
- ShadowAndAct
Debra Granik, Nanette Burstein and Sanaa Hamri discuss their ground-breaking work
Debra Granik
Granik is an award-winning, independent film-maker. Her second feature film, Winter's Bone, is on general release now.
The "Bechdel test", which appeared in Alison Bechdel's comic strip in 1985, goes like this: does the film have at least two women in it, who talk to each other, about something besides a man? As Debra Granik, protests, laughingly: "That's not asking so much!" but most films still fail it. Not Granik's latest – the extraordinary Winter's Bone. The story of 17-year-old Ree Dolly (played magnetically by Jennifer Lawrence) fighting to save her family's land in the Ozarks sees her negotiating with women who may or may not know what has happened to her disappeared father. The film's women are, as Granik puts it, "adjudicating a huge amount of the questions of life. There has never been enough screen time for...
Debra Granik
Granik is an award-winning, independent film-maker. Her second feature film, Winter's Bone, is on general release now.
The "Bechdel test", which appeared in Alison Bechdel's comic strip in 1985, goes like this: does the film have at least two women in it, who talk to each other, about something besides a man? As Debra Granik, protests, laughingly: "That's not asking so much!" but most films still fail it. Not Granik's latest – the extraordinary Winter's Bone. The story of 17-year-old Ree Dolly (played magnetically by Jennifer Lawrence) fighting to save her family's land in the Ozarks sees her negotiating with women who may or may not know what has happened to her disappeared father. The film's women are, as Granik puts it, "adjudicating a huge amount of the questions of life. There has never been enough screen time for...
- 10/2/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Phenomenal View…
Malik Hassan Sayeed has shot countless music videos, a handful of feature films, and has moved in and out of directing projects, with a list of colleagues, ranging from the likes of Spike Lee to Stanley Kubrick.
From working on the crew for Malcolm X, to DPing his first feature film – that film being the visually audacious epic, Clockers, his visual style and sense has run the gamut.
Using a saturated tone for Spike, and a blurred, out-of-focus feel for Hype Williams, his eye experiments with how we view beauty through the lens.
He received the best cinematographer’s nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards for his work on Williams’ cult classic marvel Belly.
Having been given the opportunity to follow the likes of Ernest Dickerson, Barry Sonnenfeld, & Jan de Bont, Sayeed ventured into directing with a force; helming many music videos that burst with light through an array of shadows.
Malik Hassan Sayeed has shot countless music videos, a handful of feature films, and has moved in and out of directing projects, with a list of colleagues, ranging from the likes of Spike Lee to Stanley Kubrick.
From working on the crew for Malcolm X, to DPing his first feature film – that film being the visually audacious epic, Clockers, his visual style and sense has run the gamut.
Using a saturated tone for Spike, and a blurred, out-of-focus feel for Hype Williams, his eye experiments with how we view beauty through the lens.
He received the best cinematographer’s nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards for his work on Williams’ cult classic marvel Belly.
Having been given the opportunity to follow the likes of Ernest Dickerson, Barry Sonnenfeld, & Jan de Bont, Sayeed ventured into directing with a force; helming many music videos that burst with light through an array of shadows.
- 8/31/2010
- by Tony
- ShadowAndAct
Director Sanaa Hamri’s path to filmmaking was not an obvious one. Born in Morocco, Hamri moved to the United States to study theater at the age of 17. But instead of acting, she got into editing and was soon enough directing music videos for such stars as Mariah Carey. Her third feature, Just Wright, stars Queen Latifah as a physical therapist who falls for an NBA star, played by Common. It is an uncommon love story of a man who falls for the right girl after falling for the wrong girl. Hamri’s visual style is rich and textured—full of the colorful flourishes of her native Morocco. Although she lives in the United States, she has a home in Morocco. She hopes her next project will be an adaptation of Leila Lalami’s short stories, Hope and other Dangerous Pursuits.
By Lorenza Muñoz
You began your career by wanting to be an actor.
By Lorenza Muñoz
You began your career by wanting to be an actor.
- 5/12/2010
- Film Independent
There's some seriously virtuoso filmmaking on display in "He Got Game", which easily could have been subtitled "Spike Lee's Hoop Dreams".
As a director, Lee continues to hone his considerable craft and is unafraid to take creative risks along the way. But after leaving the scripting to others for his past few feature outings, he has returned to the word processor -- and it's evident his screenwriting abilities haven't kept pace.
Plagued by the awkward exposition and lapses into didactic heavy-handedness that often crept into his previous work, the picture never quite nails the artistic Slam Dunk that is so often within its grasp.
A towering performance from Denzel Washington and the b-ball backdrop could draw some spectators in its opening week, but it's unlikely "Game"'s got legs.
Lee certainly has an intriguing premise: Prisoner Jake Shuttlesworth (Washington) is offered a reduced sentence if he can persuade his long-estranged, high school hoops star son Jesus (Ray Allen) to sign with the governor's alma mater.
Released on one-week parole with a tracking device clamped to his ankle, Shuttlesworth finds himself back on his Coney Island turf after 6 1/2 years behind bars; but with the daunting task ahead of him, freedom turns out to be a relative term.
It's gradually revealed that Shuttlesworth is serving a 15-year sentence for killing his wife -- an accident for which his son has understandably never forgiven him. Jake's sudden arrival stirs up a lot of unpleasant memories for Jesus, even as he is seduced with sweetened scholarship offers as decision day draws near.
It ultimately comes down to a high-stakes game of one-on-one. If the father wins, the son will sign a letter of intent to attend Big State, thereby hastening Jake's release. If Jesus wins, Dad agrees to never again attempt to make contact with him or his younger sister.
Basketball is a subject very near to Lee's heart, and he (along with frequent collaborators DP Malik Hassan Sayeed and editor Barry Alexander Brown) choreographs the net navigation with a reverent grace. Particularly arresting is a final, unspoken, long-distance father-son reconciliation that is as movingly poetic as anything Lee's ever put on film.
Which makes the script problems even more frustrating. While Washington's commanding performance takes full advantage of his quiet intensity, Lee's words never adequately provide him the opportunity to show sufficient remorse over the accidental killing of his wife and mother of his children.
Milwaukee Bucks guard and rookie actor Allen, meanwhile, shows sensitive focus within a limited range as Washington's conflicted son.
Lee's female characters prove more problematic, as most (with the exception of the dead mom and Jesus' little sister) use sex for personal gain -- from the abused hooker with the heart of gold (Milla Jovovich) to Jesus' conniving girlfriend (Rosario Dawson) to the bevy of perky, white campus groupies who lust after the star players.
Writing aside, Lee continues to make gutsy creative decisions, such as cobbling together an entire score from snatches of Aaron Copland's catalog. The late composer-conductor's pop brand of folk opera is certainly an inspired choice, particularly when juxtaposed with a selection of strong new rap tracks by Public Enemy.
Hopefully next time, Spike will leave the words to others.
HE GOT GAME
Buena Vista Distribution
Touchstone Pictures presents
A 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production
A Spike Lee joint
Director-screenwriter: Spike Lee
Producers: Jon Kilik, Spike Lee
Director of photography: Malik Hassan Sayeed
Production designer: Wynn Thomas
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown
Costume designer: Sandra Hernandez
Music: Aaron Copland
Music supervisor: Alex Steyermark
Casting: Aisha Coley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jake Shuttlesworth: Denzel Washington
Jesus Shuttlesworth: Ray Allen
Dakota Burns: Milla Jovovich
Coleman "Booger" Sykes: Hill Harper
Uncle Bubba: Bill Nunn
Spivey: Jim Brown
Sweetness: Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Lala Bonilla: Rosario Dawson
Running time -- 130 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
As a director, Lee continues to hone his considerable craft and is unafraid to take creative risks along the way. But after leaving the scripting to others for his past few feature outings, he has returned to the word processor -- and it's evident his screenwriting abilities haven't kept pace.
Plagued by the awkward exposition and lapses into didactic heavy-handedness that often crept into his previous work, the picture never quite nails the artistic Slam Dunk that is so often within its grasp.
A towering performance from Denzel Washington and the b-ball backdrop could draw some spectators in its opening week, but it's unlikely "Game"'s got legs.
Lee certainly has an intriguing premise: Prisoner Jake Shuttlesworth (Washington) is offered a reduced sentence if he can persuade his long-estranged, high school hoops star son Jesus (Ray Allen) to sign with the governor's alma mater.
Released on one-week parole with a tracking device clamped to his ankle, Shuttlesworth finds himself back on his Coney Island turf after 6 1/2 years behind bars; but with the daunting task ahead of him, freedom turns out to be a relative term.
It's gradually revealed that Shuttlesworth is serving a 15-year sentence for killing his wife -- an accident for which his son has understandably never forgiven him. Jake's sudden arrival stirs up a lot of unpleasant memories for Jesus, even as he is seduced with sweetened scholarship offers as decision day draws near.
It ultimately comes down to a high-stakes game of one-on-one. If the father wins, the son will sign a letter of intent to attend Big State, thereby hastening Jake's release. If Jesus wins, Dad agrees to never again attempt to make contact with him or his younger sister.
Basketball is a subject very near to Lee's heart, and he (along with frequent collaborators DP Malik Hassan Sayeed and editor Barry Alexander Brown) choreographs the net navigation with a reverent grace. Particularly arresting is a final, unspoken, long-distance father-son reconciliation that is as movingly poetic as anything Lee's ever put on film.
Which makes the script problems even more frustrating. While Washington's commanding performance takes full advantage of his quiet intensity, Lee's words never adequately provide him the opportunity to show sufficient remorse over the accidental killing of his wife and mother of his children.
Milwaukee Bucks guard and rookie actor Allen, meanwhile, shows sensitive focus within a limited range as Washington's conflicted son.
Lee's female characters prove more problematic, as most (with the exception of the dead mom and Jesus' little sister) use sex for personal gain -- from the abused hooker with the heart of gold (Milla Jovovich) to Jesus' conniving girlfriend (Rosario Dawson) to the bevy of perky, white campus groupies who lust after the star players.
Writing aside, Lee continues to make gutsy creative decisions, such as cobbling together an entire score from snatches of Aaron Copland's catalog. The late composer-conductor's pop brand of folk opera is certainly an inspired choice, particularly when juxtaposed with a selection of strong new rap tracks by Public Enemy.
Hopefully next time, Spike will leave the words to others.
HE GOT GAME
Buena Vista Distribution
Touchstone Pictures presents
A 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production
A Spike Lee joint
Director-screenwriter: Spike Lee
Producers: Jon Kilik, Spike Lee
Director of photography: Malik Hassan Sayeed
Production designer: Wynn Thomas
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown
Costume designer: Sandra Hernandez
Music: Aaron Copland
Music supervisor: Alex Steyermark
Casting: Aisha Coley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jake Shuttlesworth: Denzel Washington
Jesus Shuttlesworth: Ray Allen
Dakota Burns: Milla Jovovich
Coleman "Booger" Sykes: Hill Harper
Uncle Bubba: Bill Nunn
Spivey: Jim Brown
Sweetness: Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Lala Bonilla: Rosario Dawson
Running time -- 130 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 4/27/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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