BEST DIRECTOR THE CREATIVE AWARD Ô Chris Cunningham Q Virgin Records

The Creative Awa the team or company which showed the greatest range of creativity across ail the catégories that make up the CADs. The overall quality ot entries this year led to stiff compétition but, for the sheer breadth of its achievement, Virgin Records emerged as winner for the second time in a row. It was nominated in no fewer than 17 of the 27 catégories for work as diverse as an ad in Few will be surprised by the promo industry's choice of Chris Music Week's Asda supplément, the web marketing campalgn fqr . Cunningham as director of the year. After presenting his credentiali Massive Attack, a string of sleeve designs and a whole host of video so emphatically in 1997 with Come To Daddy, Aphex Twin's comic- catégories. As a resuit, it carried off five CADs. horror masterpiece, Cunningham's work in 1998 suggests that a Among the key executives steering Virgin to success were art career in feature films is only just around the corner and that he and multimédia director DannyVan Emden and director of video may soon emerge as a household name in his own right. Carole Burton-Fairbrother and their respective teams. While Each new addition to Cunningham's portfolio has simply Massive Attack dominaied its winning entries, a varied list of ariists increased his réputation. From Portishead's Only You and Madonna' including Gomez, Placebo and Billie ail benef ited from the Frozen to the as-yet unreleased promo for Leftfield, his videos have company's exceptional skill in developing thèmes and images across consistently demonstrated his characteristicaily dark and fantastic vision as well as his meticulous technique. He has repeatedly redefined perceptions of what can be achieved in a music video. "The videos he makes are noi just promotional tools but works of ar in their own right," says Steve Beckett at Warp. BEST DESIGN TEAM rîu S Tom Hingston Studios

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