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1998
MTV Video Music Awards Nominees
Written
by Rick Ellis
BEST
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
BRANDY AND MONICA Video: "The Boy Is Mine" Director: Joseph
Kahn Label: Atlantic Records/The Atlantic Group/Arista Records
MADONNA
Video: "Ray Of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick
Recording Company
PUFF
DADDY AND THE FAMILY FEATURING THE LOX, LIL' KIM AND THE NOTORIOUS
B.I.G. AND FUZZBUBBLE Video: "It's All About The Benjamins
(Rock Remix)" Director: Spike Jonze Label: Bad Boy Records Will
Smith Video: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" Director: Hype Williams Label:
Columbia Records The Verve Video: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" Director:
Walter Stern Label: Hut/Virgin Records Ltd.
BEST
MALE VIDEO
David Bowie featuring Trent Reznor
Video: "I'm Afraid Of Americans(remix)" Director: Dom & Nic Label:
Virgin Records America, Inc.
Busta
Rhymes
Video: "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" Director: Hype
Williams Label: Flipmode/Elektra Records/EEG
Eric
Clapton
Video: "My Father's Eyes" Director: Kevin Godley Label: Reprise
Records
Brian
McKnight
Video: "Anytime" Director: Darren Grant Label: Mercury Records
Will
Smith
Video: "Just The Two Of Us" Director: Bob Giraldi Label: Columbia
Records
BEST
FEMALE VIDEO
Fiona Apple
Video: "Criminal" Director: Mark Romanek Label: The WORK Group
Mariah
Carey featuring Puff Daddy & The Family
Video: "Honey (Remix)" Director: Daniel Pearl & Mariah Carey Label:
Columbia Records
Natalie
Imbruglia
Video: "Torn" Director: Alison Maclean Label: RCA Records
Madonna
Video: "Ray of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick
Recording Company
Shania
Twain
Video: "You're Still The One" Director: David Hogan Label: Mercury
Records
BEST
GROUP VIDEO
Backstreet Boys
Video: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" Director: Joseph Kahn Label:
Jive Records
Garbage
Video: "Push It" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Label: Almo Sounds
matchbox 20
Video: "3 A.M." Director: Gavin Bowden Label: Atlantic Records/Lava/The
Atlantic Group
Radiohead
Video: "Karma Police" Director: Jonathan Glazer Label: Capitol
Records, Inc.
The
Verve
Video: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" Director: Walter Stern Label: Hut/Virgin
Records Ltd.
BEST
RAP VIDEO
Busta Rhymes
Video: "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" Director: Hype
Williams Label: Flipmode/Elektra Records/EEG
Master
P featuring Fiend, Silkk The Shocker, Mia X, & Mystikal
Video: "Make Em Say Uhh!" Director: Michael Martin Label: No Limit
Records/Priority Records The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase &
Puff Daddy Video: "Mo Money Mo Problems" Director: Hype Williams
Label: Bad Boy Records
Pras
featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard & Mya
Video: "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" Director: Francis
Lawrence Label: Interscope Records
Will
Smith
Video: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" Director: Hype Williams Label: Columbia
Records
BEST DANCE VIDEO
Backstreet Boys
Video: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" Director: Joseph Kahn Label:
Jive Records Janet Jackson Video: "Together Again" Director: Seb
Janiak Label: Virgin Records America, Inc.
Madonna
Video: "Ray Of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick
Recording Company Prodigy Video: "Smack My Bitch Up" Director:
Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick Recording Company
Will Smith
Video: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" Director: Hype Williams Label: Columbia
Records
BEST
ROCK VIDEO
Aerosmith
Video: "Pink" Director: Doug Nichol Label: Columbia Records
Foo Fighters
Video: "Everlong" Director: Michel Gondry Label: Roswell/Capitol
Records, Inc.
Dave Matthews Band
Video: "Don't Drink The Water" Director: Dean Karr Label: RCA
Records
Metallica
Video: "The Unforgiven II" Director: Matt Mahurin Label:
Elektra Records/EEG
BEST
ALTERNATIVE MUSIC VIDEO
Ben Folds Five
Video: "Brick" Director: Kevin Bray Label: 550 Music
Garbage
Video: "Push It" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Label: Almo Sounds
Green Day
Video: "Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)" Director: Mark Kohr
Label: Reprise Records
Radiohead
Video: "Karma Police" Director: Jonathan Glazer Label: Capitol
Records The Verve Video: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" Director: Walter
Stern Label: Hut/Virgin Records Ltd.
BEST
NEW ARTIST IN A VIDEO
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Video: "Zoot Suit Riot" Director: Gregory Dark Label: Mojo
Chumbawamba
Video: "Tubthumping" Director: Ben Unwin Label: Republic/Universal
Records
Fastball
Video: "The Way" Director: McG Label: Hollywood Records
Natalie Imbruglia
Video: "Torn" Director: Alison Maclean Label: RCA Records Mase
Video: "Feel So Good" Director: Hype Williams Label: Bad Boy Records
BEST
VIDEO FROM A FILM
Aerosmith
Video: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" LP: Armageddon - The Album
Director: Francis Lawrence Label: Columbia Records/Sony Music
Soundtrax Movie Company: Touchstone Films
Beck
Video: "Deadweight" LP: A Life Less Ordinary Soundtrack Director:
Michel Gondry Label: London/Island Records Movie Company: Twentieth
Century Fox
Celine
Dion
Video: "My Heart Will Go On LP: Let's Talk About Love/Music From
The Motion Picture Titanic Director: Bille Woodruff Label: 550
Music/Sony Classical/Paramount Pictures Movie Company: Paramount
Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox
Goo
Goo Dolls
Video: "Iris" LP: Music From The Motion Picture City of Angels
Director: Nancy Bardawil Label: Reprise Records Movie Company:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Pras
featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard & Mya
Video: "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" LP: From The Motion
Picture Soundtrack Bulworth Director: Francis Lawrence Label:
Interscope Records Movie Company: Twentieth Century Fox
Puff
Daddy & Jimmy Page
Video: "Come With Me" LP: Godzilla - The Album Director: Howard
Greenhalgh Label: Epic/Sony Music Soundtrax Movie Company: Columbia
Tri Star
BEST
R&B VIDEO
Brandy & Monica
Video: "The Boy Is Mine" Director: Joseph Kahn Label: Atlantic
Records/The Atlantic Group/Arista Records Wyclef Jean featuring
Refugee Allstars Video: "Gone Till November" Director: Francis
Lawrence Label: Ruffhouse/Columbia Records
K-Ci
& JoJo
Video: "All My Life" Director: Lara M. Schwartz Label: MCA Records
Usher Video: "You Make Me Wanna" Director: Bille Woodruff Label:
LaFace Records
BEST
DIRECTION IN A VIDEO
Garbage
Video: "Push It" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Label: Almo Sounds
Wyclef
Jean featuring Refugee Allstars
Video: "Gone Till November" Director: Francis Lawrence Label:
Ruffhouse/Columbia Records
Madonna
Video: "Ray Of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick
Recording Company
Prodigy
Video: "Smack My Bitch Up" Director: Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick
Recording Company
Radiohead
Video: "Karma Police" Director: Jonathan Glazer Label: Capitol
Records, Inc.
BEST
CHOREOGRAPHY IN A VIDEO
Busta Rhymes
Video: "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" Director: Hype
Williams Choreographer: Fatima Robinson Label: Flipmode/Elektra
Records/EEG
Wyclef
Jean featuring Refugee Allstars
Video: "We Trying To Stay Alive" Director: Roman Coppola Choreographer:
Henry & Crazy Legs Label: Ruffhouse/Columbia Records
Madonna
Video: "Ray Of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Choreographer:
Madonna Label: Maverick Recording Company
Will
Smith
Video: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" Director: Hype Williams Choreographer:
Stretch Label: Columbia Records
BEST
SPECIAL EFFECTS IN A VIDEO
Aerosmith
Video: "Pink" Director: Doug Nichol Special Effects: Kevin Yagher
Label: Columbia Records
Aphex
Twin
Video: "Come To Daddy" Director: Chris Cunningham Special Effects:
Chris Cunningham Label: Sire Records
Foo Fighters
Video: "Everlong" Director: Michel Gondry Special Effects: Paul
Sokol & Chris W. Label: Roswell/Capitol Records, Inc.
Garbage
Video: "Push It" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Special Effects: Sebasten
Caudron Label: Almo Sounds
Madonna
Video: "Frozen" Director: Chris Cunningham Special Effects: Steve
Murgatroyd, Dan Williams, Steve Hiam, Anthony Walsham Label: Maverick
Recording Company
BEST
ART DIRECTION IN A VIDEO
Bjork
Video: "Bachelorette" Director: Michel Gondry Art Director: Donovan
Davidson Label: Elektra Records/EEG
Death
In Vegas
Video: "Dirt" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Art Director: Andrea Giacobbe
Label: Time Bomb Recordings/Concrete
Foo
Fighters
Video: "Everlong" Director: Michel Gondry Art Director: Bill Lakoss
Label: Roswell/Capitol Records, Inc. Garbage Video: "Push It"
Director: Andrea Giacobbe Art Director: Virginia Lee Label: Almo
Sounds
BEST
EDITING IN A VIDEO
Aerosmith
Video: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" Director: Francis Lawrence
Editor: Chris Hafner Label: Columbia Records
Garbage
Video: "Push It" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Editor: Sylvain Connat
Label: Almo Sounds
Madonna
Video: "Ray Of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Editor: Jonas Akerlund
Label: Maverick Recording Company
Prodigy
Video: "Smack My Bitch Up" Director: Jonas Akerlund Editor: Jonas
Akerlund Label: Maverick Recording Company
BEST
CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A VIDEO
Fiona Apple
Video: "Criminal" Director: Mark Romanek Cinematographer: Harris
Svides Label: The WORK Group
Garbage
Video: "Push It" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Cinematographer: Max
Malkin Label: Almo Sounds
Madonna
Video: "Ray Of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Cinematographer:
Henrik Halvarsson Label: Maverick Recording Company
Dave Matthews Band
Video: "Don't Drink The Water" Director: Dean Karr Cinematographer:
Dean Karr Label: RCA Records Radiohead Video: "Karma Police" Director:
Jonathan Glazer Cinematographer: Stephen Keith-Roache Label: Capitol
Records, Inc.
BREAKTHROUGH
VIDEO
Busta Rhymes
Video: "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" Director: Hype
Williams Label: Flipmode/Elektra Records/EEG
Garbage
Video: "Push It" Director: Andrea Giacobbe Label: Almo Sounds
Sean Lennon
Video: "Home" Director: Spike Jonze Label: Grand Royal/Capitol
Records, Inc.
Madonna
Video: "Ray Of Light" Director: Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick
Recording Company
Prodigy
Video: "Smack My Bitch Up" Director: Jonas Akerlund Label: Maverick
Recording Company
Roni
Size/Reprazent
Video: "Brown Paper Bag" Director: Nick Gordon Label: Talkin Loud/Mercury
Records
VIEWER'S
CHOICE
Celine Dion
Video: "My Heart Will Go On(Love Theme From Titanic)" Director:
Bille Woodruff Label: 550 Music/Sony Classical/Paramount Pictures/Twentieth
Century Fox
Green Day
Video: "Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)" Director: Mark Kohr
Label: Reprise Records
matchbox 20
Video: "3 A.M." Director: Gavin Bowden Label: Atlantic Records/Lava/The
Atlantic Group
Puff
Daddy & The Family featuring The Lox, Lil' Kim, The Notorious
B.I.G. & fuzzbubble
Video: "It's All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix)" Director: Spike
Jonze Label: Bad Boy Records
Will Smith
Video: "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" Director: Hype Williams Label: Columbia
Records
1998
MTV Video Music Awards Total Number of Combined Category Nominations
Madonna, 9 (3 General, 6 Professional)
Garbage, 8 (2 General, 6 Professional)
Will Smith, 6 (5 General, 1 Professional)
Aerosmith, 4 (2 General, 2 Professional)
Busta Rhymes, 4 (2 General, 2 Professional)
Prodigy, 4 (2 General, 2 Professional)
Radiohead, 4 (2 General, 2 Professional)
Foo Fighters, 3 (1 General, 2 Professional)
The Verve, 3 (3 General)
Natalie Imbruglia, 2 (2 General)
Wyclef Jean featuring Refugee Allstars, 3 (1 General, 2 Professional)
Backstreet Boys, 2 (2 General)
Brandy & Monica, 2 (2 General)
Celine Dion, 2 (2 General)
Dave Matthews Band, 2 (1 General, 1 Professional)
Fiona Apple, 2 (1 General, 1 Professional)
Green Day, 2 (2 General)
matchbox 20, 2 (2 General)
Pras featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard & Mya, 2 (2 General)
Puff Daddy & The Family featuring The Lox, Lil' Kim, The Notorious
B.I.G. & fuzzbubble, 2 (2 General)
The above tally includes domestic categories only.
1998
MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS INTERNATIONAL NOMINATIONS
MTV ASIA
Chrisye
Video: "Kala Cinta Menggoda" Director: Dimas Djayadiningrat Label:
Musica Studios
Country:
Indonesia
H.O.T.
Video: "We Are The Future" Director: Jong-Ho Hong Label: SM Entertainment
Country: Korea Innuendo Video: "Belaian Jiwa" Director: Justin
Woon Label: Positive Tone Sdn. Bhd.
Country:
Malaysia
Kulay
Video: "Shout" Director: Boom Dayupay Label: Sony Music Philippines
Country:
Philippines
Nicole Theriault
Video: "Kapolo" Director: Kunchit Ketthong Label: Grammy Entertainment
Country: Thailand
MTV
AUSTRALIA
Grinspoon
Video: "Just Ace" Director: Amanda Jane Label: Universal Music
Natalie
Imbruglia
Video: "Torn" Director: Alison MacLean Label: BMG Records
Robyn
Loau
Video: "Sick With Love" Director: Anton Beebie Label: Polydor
Records
Kylie Minogue
Video: "Did It Again" Director: Pedro Romhanyi Label: Mushroom
Records
Regurgitator
Video: "Black Bugs" Director: Quan Yeomans Label: Warner Music
Screamfeeder Video: "Hi C's" Director: Kellie Lloyd Label: Shock
Records
silverchair
Video: "Cemetery" Director: Gerald Casale Label: Murmur/Sony Music
MTV
BRASIL
Charlie Brown Jr.
Video: "Prohibida Pra Mim" Director: Alex Miranda Label: Virgin
Pato Fu Video: "Antes Que Seja Tarde" Director: Hugo Prata Label:
BMG
Paralamas
do Sucesso
Video: "Ela Disse Adeus" Director: Andrew Waddington, Breno Silveira
& Toni Vanzollini Label: EMI Racionais MC's Video: "Diario De
Um Detento" Director: Mauricio Eca/Marcelo Corpani Label: Cosa
Nostra
Raimundos
Video: "Andar Na Pedra" Director: Andrew Waddington, Toni Vanzollini,
Breno Silveira, Gualter Pupo & Fabio Soares Label: WEA
MTV
EUROPE
This year, MTV Europe will reveal their own Viewer's Choice Award
for each of their five (5) services, at the 1998 Europe Music
Awards airing live worldwide from the Fila Forum in Milan on November
12th.
MTV
INDIA
Abhijeet
Video: "Mai Koi Aisa" Director: Aziz Mirza Label: Venus Music
Asha
Bhosle
Video: "Janam Samjha Karo" Director: Radhika Label: Polygram India
Ltd.
Kamaal
Khan
Video: "O O Jaane Jana" Director: Sohail Khan Label: T-Series
Lata Mangeshkar & Udit Narayan Video: "Dil To Pagal Hai" Director:
Yash Chopra Label: HMV (The Gramaphone Co. of India Ltd.)
A.
R. Rahman
Video: "Maa Tujhe Salaam" Director: Bala & Kanika Label: Sony
Music India Ltd.
MTV
JAPAN
Blanket Jet City
Video: "Akai Tambourine" Director: Shuichi Tan Label: Polydor
Hide w/Spread Beaver Video: "Pink Spider" Director: Shuichi Tan
Label: Universal Victor
Luna Sea
Video: "Storm" Director: Sojiro Otsubo Label: Universal Victor
Puffy
Video: "Ai No Shirushi" Director: Mikio Kawasaki Label: Epic Records
Shikao
Suga
Video: "Story" Director: Hideaki Sunaga Label: Kitty
MTV
LATIN AMERICA NORTH SERVICE
Aterciopelados
Video: "Cosita Seria" Director: Felipe Aljure Label: BMG Colombia
Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas
Video: "Jugo" Director: Andres Fogwill/Dante Spinetta/Emmanuel
Horvilleur Label: PolyGram Argentina
La
Ley
Video: "Fotofobia" Director: Stanley Label: Warner Music Mexico
Molotov Video: "Gimme The Power" Director: Jorge Aguilera Label:
Universal Music Mexico
Plastilina Mosh
Video: "Mr. P-Mosh" Director: Fernando Eimbcke Label: Tombola/EMI
MTV
LATIN
AMERICA SOUTH SERVICE
Andres Calamaro
Video: "Loco" Director: Maru Basamon Label: Dro/Warner Music Spain
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Video: "Calaveras Y Diablitos" Director: Joe Russo/ Aaron White
Label: BMG Argentina
Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas
Video: "Jugo" Director: Andres Fogwill/Dante Spinetta/Emmanuel
Horvilleur Label: PolyGram Argentina
Molotov
Video: "Gimme The Power" Director: Jorge Aguilera Label: Universal
Music Mexico Turf Video: "Casanova" Director: Picky Talarico Label:
Universal Music Argentina
MTV
MANDARIN
Black Biscuits
Video: "Stamina" Director: Isono Hutosi Label: BMG Music Taiwan
Inc. CoCo Lee Video: "Di Da Di" Director: Kevin Fu Label: Sony
Music Entertainment Tawian Ltd.
Karen Mok
Video: "He Doesn't Love Me" Director: Lin Jin He Label: Rock Group
International Na Ying Video: "Conquer" Director: Lin Jin He Label:
EMI Taiwan Ltd.
Power
Station
Video: "Cruel Love Letter" Director: Lai Wei Kang Label: What's
Music International Incorporated
David
Tao
Video: "Beside The Airport" Director: Chen Hong Yi Label: Golden
Point
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