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Beyoncé "BEYWATCH"

Queen Bey has been a bit quiet on the music video front — a stance refenced here by a recurrent bug that advertises the "No Visual Awards" — but this comes close to a return as she paid surprise tribute to former Baywatch TV star Pamela Anderson in a clip that was released on the eve of the election as an encouragement to vote.

2021 Grammy Best Music Video

And the winner is... Beyoncé, who also made history at last night's ceremony for most awarded female artist of all time.

Grammy Best Music Video Winner:

"Brown Skin Girl" Beyoncé, Blue Ivy & WizKid

Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Jenn Nkiru, video directors; Astrid Edwards, Aya Kaido, Jean Mougin, Nathan Scherrer & Erinn Williams, video producers

Jay-Z "Family Feud" (Ava DuVernay, dir.)

Celebrated film director Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle In Time) takes us into the near future where America has been rebooted into greatness thanks to the foresight of some wise and strong founding Mothers.

Featured in the video alongside Jay-Z, Beyonce and their daughter Blue, is a star-studded cast including Thandie Newton, Jessica Chastain, America Ferrera, Mindy Kaling, Michael B Jordan, David Oyelowo, Brie Larson, Rosario Dawson, Rashida Jones and more.

Eminem "Walk On Water" (Rich Lee, dir.)

If a room full of rappers banged away randomly at typewriters for an infinite amount of time, would they write something as good as Eminem's "Stan"? Probably not, but this videos let's us into Em's creative process, as we see him metaphorically deal with with living up to his stature and navigating the sometimes icy waters of inspiration.

Beyonce "Formation" Wins Best Music Video Grammy

All hail Queen Bey, who took home an early (pre-telecast) win for Best Music Video:

  • Beyoncé "Formation" — Melina Matsoukas, video director | Candice Dragonas, Juliette Larthe, Nathan Scherrer & Inga Veronique, video producer | Label: Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records

And for all you Longform fans, director Ron Howard's The Beatles: Eight Days A Week The Touring Years won for Best Music Film.

Deep Diving on the Grammy Video Noms

On Tuesday, the nominees for the 59th Grammy Awards were announced and have already inspired a flurry of conversation about competition within the categories. Will Adele or Beyoncé reign supreme for Album of the Year? Or will be somebody else sneak in and pull off an upset. One category that isn't scrutinized quite like Album of the Year or Song of the Year but regularly brings out strong competition, is the Grammy Award for Best Music Video.

By Will Kay on December 8, 2016 @ 1:01pm PST

Beyonce "Lemonade" Visual Album

Beyonce goes very big with Lemonade, a visual album that mixes the personal with the universal with the political in a nearly hourlong special consisting of poetry, music and visuals.

In terms of the visual, the biggest stamp seems to come from director Khalil Joseph, but the longform also has set-pieces (aka: songs) directed by Jonas Akerlund,, Melina Matsoukas, Jonas Akerlund, Mark Romanek, Todd Tourso and Dikayl Rimmasch.

2015 BET Award Nominations

BET Award nominations are out and, yes, of course Hype Williams is in the running for Best Director (as he should be, even if just out of respect).

The video categories break down like this:

Video Of The Year

Video Director Of The Year

Visit BET.com for the full slate of nominees! And tune in June 28 at 8pm ET for the telecast.