The
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honour the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video categor ...
for Best Visual Effects is a craft award given to the artist, the artist's manager, and the visual effects artists and/or visual effects company of the music video. From 1984 to 2006, the award's full name was Best Special Effects in a Video, and after a brief removal in 2007, its name was shortened to Best Special Effects between 2008 and 2011. In
2012
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, the category acquired its current name.
The biggest winners are director
Jim Blashfield, special effects artist Sean Broughton, executive producer Loris Paillier and production company
GloriaFX, with two wins each. In terms of nominations, visual effects company Mathematic is the biggest nominee in the category's history (seven nominations). Closely following are
GloriaFX and Ingenuity Studios (formerly Ingenuity Engine), each receiving a total of six nominations. Special effects supervisors David Yardley and Fred Raimondi, as well as the companies Pixel Envy (headed by the
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) and
BUF come in third place, with four nominations apiece.
The performer whose videos have won the most awards is
Peter Gabriel, garnering three Moonmen. Meanwhile,
Missy Elliott's videos have received the most nominations with six.
No performer has won a Moonman in this category for working on their video's effects. However,
David Byrne from
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Burning Down the House
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Inspiration and composition
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Adam Jones from
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Prison Sex
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") have been nominated for doing such work.
Recipients
References
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MTV Video Music Awards
Awards established in 1984