VIDEOCLIP ITALIA AWARDS
Videoclip Italia Awards is the Italian award dedicated to music videos. It is organized and promoted by the webmag Videoclip Italia.
2025 EDITION: HOW TO PARTICIPATE
To participate you can submit your work through our section on the FilmFreeway platform. Entry fee per entry per category is €20 (plus FilmFreeway added fees).
Who can participate? Anyone who has taken part in the making of a music video: directors, dop, editors, producers or the artist of the video themself. The awards are open to both established professionals and young talents who want to get noticed and stand out. As long as you meet all the criteria (timing, payment, characteristics of the video) potentially anyone can enter one or more music videos, there are no restrictions in this regard.
CATEGORIES
A total of twenty prizes will be awarded. The prizes are divided into three macro-categories.
GENRES
BEST POP MUSIC VIDEO
BEST RAP/TRAP MUSIC VIDEO
BEST ROCK MUSIC VIDEO
BEST ELECTRONIC MUSIC VIDEO
BEST INDIE MUSIC VIDEO
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC VIDEO
CRAFTS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST EDITING
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST COLOUR GRADING
BEST VFX
BEST STYLING
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
SPECIALS
BEST ITALIAN MUSIC VIDEO
BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO
BEST ANIMATION MUSIC VIDEO
BEST LOW BUDGET MUSIC VIDEO
BEST EXTRACLIP
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR UNDER 25
BEST INTERNATIONAL MUSIC VIDEO
This is the only award open to music videos made for foreign (not Italian) artists. Only music videos published on YouTube between January 1st, 2024 and December 31st, 2024 are eligible for the 2025 edition of the Awards. The prize will be awarded to the director of the music video.
The jury of this category will be composed of some of the best Italian producers, directors, cinematographers and music video experts.
JUDGING PROCESS
The videos entered will be scrutinized by the organization, which will verify their suitability and possibly proceed to a first selection, in order to submit a maximum of 30 entries to the judges.
Each judge will have to express a vote from 1 to 10 for each video, basing their judgment on the artistic merit, creative contribution and technical level of each entry.
Within one month from the award ceremony, the shortlist will be announced on this website and on the social media profile of the organization.
The winners will be revealed during the award ceremony to be held next MAY/JUNE (TBA).
AWARD CEREMONY
The most important moment of the Videoclip Italia Awards is represented by the awards ceremony. A special evening that will be held in may 2025 (TBA).
It will not only be an opportunity to discover the winners, but also an unmissable event for all fans of music videos to meet and celebrate together.
2024 EDITION - RECAP
Some photos from the 2024 edition – The third edition of the Videoclip Italia Awards was held at Largo Venue, a famous venue in Rome, in the presence of around 300 enthusiastic guests including fans, directors, producers and industry insiders
The Blaze self-directed music video for Madly (produced by Iconoclast) won in the Best International Music Video category in 2024.
These were the other four shortlisted music videos:
Alaskan Tapes – Of Woods and Seas
Director: Andrew De Zen
Production Company: Nakama Film
Audrey Nuna – Locket
Director: Valentin Petit
Production Company: Ocurens
The Chemical Brothers, Beck – Skipping Like a Stone
Directors: Pensacola
Production Company: CANADA
Travis Scott – Sirens
Director: Travis Scott
Production Company: CANADA
