The camera department gets named on the award and then vanishes from the coverage. This section is the correction: what the lens was, why it was chosen, who chose it, and what it did to the picture.
Slit-scan distortion, stretched ratios and extreme close-ups, applied to a track that did not need any help being tense. It took the Golden Frog at Camerimage and then the British Society of Cinematographers award four months later.
Caviar Paris has signed director Nicolás Méndez for French commercial and branded work; the announcement highlights his award record and signature visual approach.
It won Video of the Year plus cinematography, production design and visual effects at the UK Music Video Awards 2025. Most of the crew did not know who they were shooting for until they arrived.
Charlie Von Rotberg took Best Editing and Zoï Tatopoulos took Best Choreography at the UKMVA 2025. Daniel Landin was nominated for cinematography and did not win, which is worth saying out loud.
Rina Yang was nominated for cinematography at both the UKMVA 2025 and the BSC Awards 2026 for this. It won neither, and it is still one of the most composed things released that year.
Shot, cut and co-written by the same person, made through a film school, and it took Best Cinematography Newcomer at the UK Music Video Awards 2025.
A debut single promo that places the group in sculptural studio sets; Vimeo credits name director Anastasja Black, DoP Diara Sow, producer Lucie Otal Gardes and more.
Yasser Abubeker directs Erykah Badu and The Alchemist in a smoke-filled East London courtyard performing material from Before The World Blows.
To get a reflection of a reflection of a reflection, two mirrors have to be perfectly parallel. Thirty-odd industrial robot arms held them there, synchronised not to a frame rate but to 78 beats per minute.
Ade 'Adelight' Adesina directs DC3's near‑six‑minute film Kunta In UK, pairing performance and narrative to examine legacy and identity; Stormzy appears.
Gabbay shot "Chains & Whips" for director Gabriel Moses, and it is the only music video we can find that took both the Camerimage Golden Frog in the Music Videos Competition and the British Society of Cinematographers music video award in the same cycle. Promonews called the work "a technical and aesthetic feat, including the use of 'slit scan' and imaginative use of lipsync".
Ted Clarke’s black-and-white video frames feverish performance vignettes for Dezzie, Izzpot and Clavish; credits and early YouTube figures are reported by Popnable and Promonews.
Lushchyk shot "Tailor Swif" on Kodak 16mm in Kyiv and took Best Cinematography at the UK Music Video Awards 2025 for it. Albert Zurashvili of shelter.film, the Kyiv production company on the job, described him on the record as "an incredibly talented Ukrainian director of photography".
Von Rotberg, at Stitch Editing, took Best Editing in a Video at the UK Music Video Awards 2025 for FKA twigs' "Eusexua", directed by Jordan Hemingway for Object & Animal.
Cowan‑Turner stages a Gothic Western of murder and revenant voices; credits include DOP Ailsa Aikoa, editor/sound designer Eden Read and producer Emily Clifford.
Josh McCartney leads Robyn Hitchcock through colourful Egersund in a wide‑angle, grainy music video that features googly‑eye props and cameos by Grace Conrad, Kai Slater and Norman Blake.
Shot in one night in a derelict Romanian factory on Halloween, entirely on practical light, on a set of anamorphics chosen precisely because they were not clean.
Dimitri Papazachariou directs Lush Duck’s Face Of God: sunlit, lo‑fi church footage cut against hallucinatory memory sequences—director credited, other crew not listed.
Nominated for cinematography at the BSC Awards 2026. Two reputable sources name two different cinematographers, and we are not going to guess which is right.
Isaac Brown is refreshingly precise about which department did what, including the part where the most dramatic thing in the frame was made after the shoot.