Grammy Award for Video of the Year

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{{Infobox award
| name = Grammy Award for Video of the Year
| description = quality [[music video]]s
| image = Grammy.jpg
| imagesize = 100px
| alt = A gold gramophone trophy with a plaque set on a table
| caption = Gilded gramophone trophy presented to Grammy Award winners
| presenter = [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]]
| country = United States
| year = 1982
| year2 = 1983
| website = [http://www.grammy.com/ grammy.com]
}}
The '''Grammy Award for Video of the Year''' was an honor presented to recording artists at the [[24th Grammy Awards]] in 1982 and the [[25th Grammy Awards]] in 1983 for [[music video]]s. The [[Grammy Award]]s, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,<ref name=Grammy>{{cite news|url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/grammys/env-grammy_awards_info,0,5279018.htmlstory?track=center|title=Grammy Awards at a Glance|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|publisher=[[Tribune Company]]|accessdate=December 21, 2010}}</ref> are presented by the [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]] of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".<ref name=Overview>{{cite web|url=http://www2.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/|title=Overview|accessdate=December 21, 2010|publisher=[[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>

First presented in [[24th Grammy Awards|1982]] to [[Michael Nesmith]] for ''[[Elephant Parts]]'', the award was reserved for quality "video cassettes or discs in any format created specifically for the home video market".<ref name=Arar>{{cite news|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v05PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qgIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6761,3575723&dq|title=Jones, Ritchie Get Most Nominations|date=January 13, 1982|accessdate=December 21, 2010|work=[[The Blade (newspaper)|The Blade]]|publisher=[[Block Communications]]|first=Yardena|last=Arar|location=Toledo, Ohio|page=P-2}}</ref> In 1983, [[Olivia Newton-John]] was presented the award for ''[[Olivia Physical]]''. Beginning with the [[26th Grammy Awards|1984]] Grammy Awards, the Video of the Year award category was replaced with the categories Best Video, Short Form and Best Video Album (now known as [[Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video|Best Short Form Music Video]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video|Best Long Form Music Video]], respectively).

==Recipients==
[[Image:Olivia Newton-John Sydney 2008.jpg|thumb|right|upright|alt=A woman with blond hair in black clothing, holding a microphone|[[25th Grammy Awards|1983]] award winner [[Olivia Newton-John]] at the [[State Theatre (Sydney)|State Theatre]] in [[Sydney]] in 2008]]
For the [[24th Grammy Awards]] (1982), Video of the Year nominees included [[Eubie Blake]] for ''One Night Stand: A Keyboard Event'',<ref name=Blake>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=r-k9ysIaaEUC&pg=PA393&lpg=PA393&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Lost sounds: Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890–1919|page=393|first1=Tim|last1=Brooks|first2=Richard Keith|last2=Spottswood|authorlink1=Tim Brooks (television historian)|authorlink2=Richard K. Spottswood|publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]]|year=2004|accessdate=January 12, 2011}}</ref> the band [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] for ''Eat to the Beat'', [[Bruce Seth Green]] for the participative video collection of puzzles and games known as ''The First National Kidisc'',<ref name=Kidisc>{{cite journal|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7SQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Thanks Grammy, For Praising Our Kids|date=February 20, 1982|accessdate=January 12, 2011|work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|page=49|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|volume=94}} Note: Advertisement.</ref><ref name=PopularScience>{{cite journal|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IcZ8Jm3K5XQC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Don't Buy a Magnavision Just Because It Plays Movies|date=April 1982|accessdate=January 12, 2011|work=[[Popular Science]]|volume=220|publisher=[[Bonnier Corporation]]|page=53}} Note: Advertisement.</ref> and former member of [[The Monkees]] [[Michael Nesmith]] for the hour-long video ''[[Elephant Parts]]'' (also known as ''Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts'').<ref name=Vibe>{{cite journal|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=kyYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|journal=[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]|accessdate=December 22, 2010|page=58|year=2008|month=March|publisher=Vibe Media Group|title=Have the Grammys ever celebrated music videos?}}</ref><ref name=Swindle>{{cite journal|url=http://swindlemagazine.com/issueicons/michael-nesmith/|title=Michael Nesmith|first=Simon|last=Steinhardt|journal=[[Swindle (magazine)|Swindle]]|accessdate=December 22, 2010}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name=Robins>{{cite news|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_NwqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8dkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1488,5087136&dq|title=Grammy gains a little more viewer respectability|date=February 24, 1982|accessdate=December 21, 2010|work=[[The Beaver County Times]]|location=Beaver, Pennsylvania||page=C10|first=Wayne|last=Robbins}}</ref> ''One Night Stand'' was a recording of a jazz program billed as "an evening of all-stars" at [[Carnegie Hall]], with appearances by [[Kenny Barron]], [[Arthur Blythe]], [[George Duke]], [[Herbie Hancock]], [[Roland Hanna]], [[Bobby Hutcherson]] and ten other musicians.<ref name=Palmer>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E4DB153BF931A15752C0A967948260|title=Jazz: 16 Musicians Play for a 'One Night Stand'|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|first=Robert|last=Palmer|date=January 22, 1981|accessdate=January 22, 2011|authorlink=Robert Palmer (writer)}}</ref> Blondie's video cassette ''Eat to the Beat'' accompanied their 1979 [[Eat to the Beat|album of the same title]].<ref name=Pollock>{{cite news|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8D4sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s80EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5151,1767662&d|title=Rock's Blondie: From Punk to Citified Chic|first=Bruce|last=Pollock|date=March 8, 1981|accessdate=January 22, 2011|work=[[Spartanburg Herald-Journal]]|location=Spartanburg, South Carolina|publisher=The New York Times Company}}</ref> ''The First National Kidisc'', one of the first interactive and educational [[videodisc]]s, contained activities designed for children.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7rvZT5J3osYC&pg=PA1979&lpg=PA1979&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Encyclopedia of Special Education: P–Z|page=1979|first1=Cecil R.|last1=Reynolds|first2=Elaine|last2=Fletcher-Janzen|year=2007|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|accessdate=January 22, 2011|authorlink1=Cecil R. Reynolds}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SB2KxLzuGLIC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Interactive Video|page=185|publisher=Educational Technology|year=1989|accessdate=January 22, 2011|}} Note: Book cites J. Blizek's 1982 article from the magazine ''[[Creative Computing]]'' titled "The First National Kidisc"–TV becomes a plaything".</ref> Without "fancy digital effects", Green's ''Kidisc'' provided five to ten hours of interactive capability within a 30-minute video through the use of dual audio tracks, freeze framing, slow motion and other techniques. Features included plane flying, jokes, [[paper plane]] construction, music performance and other games.<ref name=Forrest>{{cite journal|first=Rock|last=Forrest|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT55&lpg=PT55&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Video New Wave: Music Greets Image Manipulation|pages=56, 60|journal=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|accessdate=January 22, 2011|date=December 19, 1981|volume=93|number=50}}</ref>

The award went to Nesmith, who is known for creating one of the first companies to distribute television programs and films on home video and for establishing the television music video format that eventually became [[MTV]].<ref name=Swindle/><ref name=Wilonsky>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/12/finally_thomas_jefferson_highs.php|title=Finally, Thomas Jefferson High's Mike Nesmith Makes It Into Texas Film Hall of Fame|first=Robert|last=Wilonsky|date=December 22, 2009|accessdate=January 12, 2011|work=[[Dallas Observer]]|publisher=[[Village Voice Media]]|location=Dallas, Texas}}</ref> In 1976, Nesmith produced a video for his song "Rio", and later incorporated the video into the "montage of music and gags" called ''Elephant Parts'' after starting the company Pacific Arts Video Records. In 1985, ''Elephant Parts'' was adapted into a seven-[[episode]] summer series on [[NBC]] titled ''Michael Nesmith in Television Parts''.<ref name=Dougan>{{cite news|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1a8_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=4FYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=953,6175522&dq|title='Television Parts' debuts tonight at 8|date=June 14, 1985|accessdate=January 23, 2011|first=Michael|last=Dougan|work=[[The Vindicator]]|publisher=The Vindicator Printing Co.|location=Youngstown, Ohio|page=30}}</ref>

Nominees for the [[25th Grammy Awards]] included [[Elton John]] for ''Visions: Elton John'', [[Olivia Newton-John]] for ''[[Olivia Physical]]'', the rock band [[The Tubes]] for ''The Tubes Video'', a recording of [[Jacques Offenbach]]'s opera ''[[The Tales of Hoffman]]'' by the Royal Opera conducted by [[Georges Prêtre]] with [[Plácido Domingo]], and the interactive disc for children ''Fun and Games'' by various artists (produced by Margaret Murphy).<ref name=25th>{{cite journal|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5iMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT80&lpg=PT80&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=25th Annual Grammy Awards Final Nominations|work=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|date=January 22, 1983|accessdate=January 12, 2011|page=67|volume=95}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gracepaleythefilm.com/aboutus.html|title=Grace Paley: Collected Shorts (About the Producers)|publisher=Lilly Rivlin Productions|accessdate=January 22, 2011}}</ref> Both ''Visions'' and ''The Tubes Video'' were directed by [[Russell Mulcahy]].<ref name=VisionsCredits>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/visions-long-video-r402516/credits|title=Visions (Long Video): Credits|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|accessdate=January 22, 2011}}</ref><ref name=TubesCredits>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-tubes-video-r402751/credits|title=The Tubes Video: Credits|accessdate=January 22, 2011|publisher=Allmusic}}</ref> ''Visions'' consisted of "artistic" videos for all of the songs on John's 1981 album ''[[The Fox (Elton John album)|The Fox]]''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=eJGcZSyBflwC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=109|title=Rocket Man: Elton John from A–Z|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|first1=Claude|last1=Bernardin|first2=Tom|last2=Stanton|accessdate=January 22, 2011|authorlink2=Tom Stanton}}</ref> According to The Tubes' official site, the now [[out of print]] video collection contained music videos primarily for tracks that appeared on their 1981 album ''[[The Completion Backward Principle]]''.<ref name=Tubes>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetubes.com/faq.htm#2.3.0|title=The Tubes FAQ|accessdate=January 23, 2011|publisher=TheTubes.com|year=2009}}</ref> The award was presented to Newton-John (then her fourth Grammy Award) in February 1983 at the [[Shrine Auditorium]] in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name="Anchorage">{{cite news|title=Toto takes home 7 Grammy awards|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3tMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ip8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1707,4309650&dq|accessdate=January 12, 2011|date=February 25, 1983|page=C-10|location=Anchorage, Alaska|work=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|publisher=[[The McClatchy Company]]|first=Yardena|last=Arar}}</ref> Released a few years following her role in the 1978 film ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'', the [[aerobics]] video contained songs from her 1981 album ''[[Physical (Olivia Newton-John album)|Physical]]'' as well as enough sexual [[innuendo]] and provocation to generate controversy.<ref name=50th>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/specials/hot100/charts/top50-no1s-80s.shtml|title=The Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Year (1980–1989)|first=Chuck|last=Taylor|work=Billboard|accessdate=December 21, 2010|authorlink=Chuck Taylor (writer and editor)|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc}}</ref><ref name=People>{{cite journal|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20081457,00.html|title=Olivia Gets Physical|first=Carl|last=Arrington|volume=16|number=6|date=February 15, 1982|accessdate=December 22, 2010|journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]|publisher=[[Time Inc.]]}}</ref>

==Category retirement==
The Video of the Year category was discontinued with the establishment of the [[MTV Video Music Awards]] in [[1984 MTV Video Music Awards|1984]],<ref name=Vibe/> the top award of which is also presented for [[MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year|Video of the Year]].<ref name=Pareles>{{cite news|title=At the MTV Video Music Awards, a Big Draw, a Punch Line and, Now, a Winner|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/arts/television/08mtv.html|date=September 8, 2008|accessdate=January 20, 2011|work=The New York Times|publisher=The New York Times Company|first=Jon|last=Pareles|authorlink=Jon Pareles}}</ref> The Academy replaced the category with the awards for Best Video, Short Form and Best Video Album beginning with the [[26th Grammy Awards]]. For the awards held in [[30th Grammy Awards|1988]] and [[31st Grammy Awards|1989]], the criteria changed and honors were presented for the categories [[Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video|Best Concept Music Video]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video|Best Performance Music Video]]. The Academy returned to the previous format in [[32nd Grammy Awards|1990]],<ref name=Vibe/> though the two categories are now known as [[Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video|Best Long Form Music Video]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video|Best Short Form Music Video]].

==See also==
* [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video]]
* [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video]]
* [[List of awards and honors received by Olivia Newton-John]]
* [[List of Grammy Award categories]]

==References==
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search|title=Past Winners Search|publisher=[[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]]|accessdate=March 4, 2010}} Note: User must select the "Music Video" category as the genre under the search feature.

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==External links==
* [http://www.grammy.com/ Official site of the Grammy Awards]
* {{YouTube|id=vWz9VN40nCA&ob=av3el|title=Olivia Newton-John – Physical}}
* [http://www.grammy.com/news/olivia-newton-john-gets-physical Grammy.com – "Olivia Newton-John Gets Physical"]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5TP-9Ck6o The First National Kidisc on Youtube]

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