MTV’s legendary “Moonman” award has been reinvented by artist KAWS
The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards will air Sunday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on MTV live from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Cast your vote and tune in to see who will receive a newly KAWS-ified Moonman. MTV’s iconic “Moonman” award has been re-imagined by the former graffiti artist and Disney animator KAWS, complete with a gunmetal finish, a skull-and-crossbones head, big ears and cartoonish gloves. Check our list of Jewish nominees below then vote here!
Best Pop Video
Fun “Carry On”
Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff and video director Anthony Mandler are Jewish.
Mandler mentioned his Jewish heritage in an interview with the blog gidiculture about Jewish rapper, Drake, wearing white in his music video “Over” that Mandler directed.
Don’t start going at me with symbolism and Illuminati and all types of stupid s**t… Can you imagine what they’d say if I started putting people in all white? I’m already the ‘satanic, devil-worshipping Illuminati, Jewish kid from L.A.’ People are so bored.” — Mandler
Best hip-hop video
A$AP Rocky featuring 2 Chainz, Drake & Kendrick Lamar, “F**kin’ Problems”
Drake, “Started From the Bottom.”
Best Female video
P!nk f/ Nate Ruess “Just Give Me A Reason” Directed by Diane Martel
BEST VIDEO WITH A SOCIAL MESSAGE
Snoop Lion featuring Drake & Cori B., “No Guns Allowed.”
BEST ROCK VIDEO
Vampire Weekend, “Diane Young”
Lead singer Ezra Koenig is Jewish.
Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive”
Drummer Daniel Platzman is Jewish.
Best direction
Drake, “Started From The Bottom,” directed by Director X and Drake.
Fun “Carry On”
Best editing
P!nk f/ Nate Ruess “Just Give Me A Reason” Directed by Diane Martel
best visual effects
Duck Sauce, “It’s You”
Visual effects by Royal Post and Paris. The DJ of the band A-Trak, whose real name is Alain Macklovitch, is Jewish.