Best Music Video is an

Aotearoa Music Award The Aotearoa Music Awards (previously called the New Zealand Music Awards), conferred annually by Recorded Music NZ, honour outstanding artistic and technical achievements in the recording industry. The awards are among the most significant tha ...

that honours New Zealand artists for excellence in music video production. The award was first presented in 1983 and is given to the video director. Previous winners have included feature film directors

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and Chris Graham, and acclaimed artist

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. The most wins have gone to Joe Lonie (aka Jo Fisher) who won three time for

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videos and a fourth for

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. In 2012 all three nominees went to Special Problems, the creative partnership of Joel Kefali and Campbell Hooper.

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Best Music Video The Grammy Award for Best Music Video is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to performers, directors, and producers of quality short form music videos. Hon ...

Music video awards Awards established in 1983