Grammy Award for Video of the Year

The Grammy Award for Video of the Year , in German "Grammy Award for the Video of the Year", is a music prize that was awarded in 1982 and 1983 by the American Recording Academy in the field of music video .

History and background

Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall outstanding performance regardless of album sales or chart position.

One of these categories was the Grammy Award for Video of the Year. The award was given to Michael Nesmith in 1982 for the video Elephant Parts and in 1983 to Olivia Newton-John for the video Olivia Physical . The Grammy Award for Video of the Year category ended with the establishment of the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, the highest award of which is also awarded to Video of the Year. The Recording Academy replaced the Grammy Award for Video of the Year category with the Grammy Award for Best Video, Short Form and Grammy Award for Best Video Album . For the 1988 and 1989 awards, the criteria were changed again and awards were presented in the categories Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video and Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video . The Recording Academy reverted to the previous format in 1990, now under the category names Grammy Award for Best Music Video and Grammy Award for Best Music Film .

Winners and nominees

year	winner	nationality	Video	Nominees	Picture of the winner (s)
1982	Michael Nesmith	United States	Elephant Parts	Eubie Blake - One Night Stand: A Keyboard Event Blondie - Eat to the Beat Bruce Seth Green - The First National Kidisc
1983	Olivia Newton-John	Australia  United States	Olivia Physical	Elton John - Visions: Elton John The Tubes - The Tubes Video Jacques Offenbach : Hoffmanns Tales - Royal Opera conducted by Georges Prêtre with Plácido Domingo Fun and Games - various artists (produced by Margaret Murphy)

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards - Recording Academy, Los Angeles (English)
• Grammy Award Winner for Video of the Year at grammy.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grammy Awards. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
2. ^ The Official Site of the Grammy Awards - Overview. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
3. ↑ GRAMMY Awards Winners for Video of the Year. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Elephant Parts is a four hour long video by Michael Nesmith, a former member of The Monkees .
5. ↑ Grammy gains a little more viewer respectability. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
6. ↑ One Night Stand is the recording of a jazz concert that was held as "The Night of the Stars" at Carnegie Hall with performances by Kenny Barron , Arthur Blythe , George Duke , Herbie Hancock , Roland Hanna , Bobby Hutcherson and ten other musicians.
7. ↑ JAZZ: 16 MUSICIANS PLAY FOR A 'ONE NIGHT STAND'. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Blondie's video cassette Eat to the Beat was released in 1979 to accompany the album of the same name.
9. ↑ Rock's Blondie. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
10. ↑ First National Kidisc , one of the first educational and interactive video discs for children. With no fancy digital effects, Greens Kidisc delivered five to ten hours of interactive functionality in a 30-minute video using two audio tracks, still images, slow motion and other techniques.
11. ↑ The award was presented to Olivia Newton-John (then her fourth Grammy Award) in February 1983 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles . A few years after her role in the 1978 film Grease , the aerobics video contained songs from her 1981 album Physical, plus enough sexual innuendo and provocations to cause controversy.
12. ↑ Toto Takes home 7 grammies. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Visions is directed by Russell Mulcahy . The video consists of artistic videos for all songs from Elton John's 1981 album The Fox .
14. ↑ Elton John - Visions. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Visions is directed by Russell Mulcahy . According to The Tubes' official website , the now out of print video collection contains music videos mainly for tracks that appeared on the 1981 album The Completion Backward Principle .
16. ^ The Tubes - Tubes Video. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
17. ↑ 25th Annual Grammy Awards Final Nominations. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Grace Paley: Collected Shorts. Accessed August 20, 2019 .