MTV Video Music Awards 2009: ecco le nominations

Il 13 settembre prossimo si terranno i VMAs presentati come l'anno scorso da Russell Brand. Ecco le nomination guidate, come prevedibile, da Lady Gaga.

Video of the Year
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
Eminem — "We Made You"
Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"
Britney Spears - "Womanizer"
Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"

Best Male Video
Eminem — "We Made You"
Jay-Z — "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
Ne-Yo — "Miss Independent"
T.I. (featuring Rihanna) — "Live Your Life"
Kanye West — "Love Lockdown"

Best Female Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
Kelly Clarkson — "My Life Would Suck Without You"
Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"
Katy Perry — "Hot N Cold"
Pink — "So What"
Taylor Swift — "You Belong with Me"

Best New Artist
3OH!3 — "Don't Trust Me"
Drake — "Best I Ever Had"
Kid Cudi — "Day 'n' Nite"
Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"
Asher Roth — "I Love College"

Best Pop Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) — "Good Girls Go Bad"
Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"
Britney Spears — "Womanizer"
Wisin & Yandel — "Abusadora"

Best Rock Video
Coldplay — "Viva la Vida"
Fall Out Boy — "I Don't Care"
Green Day — "21 Guns"
Kings of Leon — "Use Somebody"
Paramore — "Decode"

Best Hip-Hop Video
Eminem — "We Made You"
Flo Rida (featuring Kesha) — "Right Round"
Jay-Z — "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
Asher Roth — "I Love College"
Kanye West — "Love Lockdown"

Breakthrough Video
Anjulie — "Boom"
Bat for Lashes — "Daniel"
Chairlift — "Evident Utensil"
Cold War Kids — "I've Seen Enough"
Death Cab for Cutie — "Grapevine Fires"
Gnarls Barkley — "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
Major Lazer — "Hold the Line"
Matt and Kim — "Lessons Learned"
Passion Pit — "The Reeling"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Heads Will Roll"

Best Direction in a Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Director: Jake Nava)
Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) — "Good Girls Go Bad" (Director: Kai Regan)
Green Day — "21 Guns" (Director: Marc Webb)
Lady Gaga — "Paparazzi" (Director: Jonas Åkerlund)
Britney Spears — "Circus" (Director: Francis Lawrence)

Best Choreography in a Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Choreographers: Frank Gatson and JaQuel Knight)
Ciara (featuring Justin Timberlake) — "Love Sex Magic" (Choreographers: Jamaica Craft and "Marty")
Kristinia DeBarge — "Goodbye" (Choreographer: Jamaica Craft)
A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) — "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" (Choreographers: Robin Antin and Mikey Minden)
Britney Spears — "Circus" (Choreographer: Andre Fuentes)

Best Special Effects in a Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Special Effects: VFX Effects and Louis Mackall V)
Eminem — "We Made You" (Special Effects: Ingenuity Engine)
Gnarls Barkley — "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (Special Effects: Gradient Effects and Image Metrics)
Lady Gaga — "Paparazzi" (Special Effects: Chimney Pot)
Kanye West (featuring Mr Hudson) — "Paranoid" (Special Effects: Wizardflex)

Best Art Direction in a Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Art Director: Niamh Byrne)
Coldplay — "Viva la Vida" (Art Director: Gregory de Maria)
Gnarls Barkley — "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (Art Director: Zach Matthews)
Lady Gaga — "Paparazzi" (Art Director: Jason Hamilton)
Britney Spears — "Circus" (Art Directors: Laura Fox and Charles Varga)

Best Editing in a Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
Coldplay — "Viva la Vida" (Editor: Hype Williams)
Miley Cyrus — "7 Things" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
Lady Gaga — "Paparazzi" (Editors: Danny Tull and Jonas Åkerlund)
Britney Spears — "Circus" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)

Best Cinematography in a Video
Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Director of Photography: Jim Fealy)
Coldplay — "Viva la Vida" (Director of Photography: John Perez)
Green Day — "21 Guns" (Director of Photography: Jonathan Sela)
Lady Gaga — "Paparazzi" (Director of Photography: Eric Broms)
Britney Spears — "Circus" (Director of Photography: Thomas Kloss)

Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman)
Beastie Boys — "Sabotage" (1994)
Björk — "Human Behaviour" (1993)
Dr. Dre — "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang" (1993)
Foo Fighters — "Everlong" (1997)
George Michael — "Freedom! '90" (1990)
OK Go — "Here It Goes Again" (2006)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — "Into the Great Wide Open" (1991)
Radiohead — "Karma Police" (1997)
David Lee Roth — "California Girls" (1985)
U2 — "Where the Streets Have No Name" (1987)

Tra i performers, Beyoncè, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Muse, Green Day, Jay-Z, Pink, Pitbull, 3OH!3 e The All-American Rejects, mentre tra i presentatori ci saranno Miranda Cosgrove, Chace Crawford, Nelly Furtado, Katy Perry, Ne-Yo e Leighton Meester.

SUMMER HITS: Gym Class Heroes - "Cupid's Chokehold" (estate 2007)

Correva l'estate di 2 anni fa, e questa "Cupid's Chokehold" dei Gym Class Heroes era una delle canzoni che si sentivano di più.

Curiosità:
- Alla fine del video compare l'allora sconosciuta Katy Perry.

SIGLA TELEFILM: "Cinque in Famiglia"

"Party of Five" è il titolo originale di questo teen drama andato in onda negli USA dal 1995 al 2000, e da noi su Canale 5 e Italia 1. E'una delle serie TV ad aver lanciato + star; infatti nel cast troviamo, tra gli altri, Matthew Fox, (protagonista, nei panni del dottor Jack Shepard, di una delle serie TV più famose di questo decennio, ovvero "Lost"), Neve Campbell (già apparsa nella trilogia di "Scream" e, ultimamente, in qualche episodio di "90210"), Jennifer Love Hewitt (protagonista di "Ghost Whisperer" nel ruolo della sensitiva Melinda Gordon, e apparsa in altri film di successo, come "So Cosa Hai Fatto" e "Garfield") e Lacey Chabert (apparsa in "Mean Girls" e "La Rivolta delle Ex".
La trama? La serie, ambientata a San Francisco, racconta la vita dei fratelli Salinger che, dopo la tragica morte dei genitori in un incidente stradale, si ritrovano soli ad affrontare i vari problemi quotidiani. Sarà il fratello maggiore, Charlie (Matthew Fox), a cercare di tenere salda la famiglia e ad occuparsi dei fratelli minori: Bailey (Scott Wolf), Julia (Neve Campbell), l'adolescente Claudia (Lacey Chabert) e Owen, di soli sei mesi.

Curosità:
- Da questa serie ne è stato tratto uno spin off, Cenerentola a New York, con protagonista Jennifer Love Hewitt e l'allora sconosciuta Jennifer Garner.