Irish Music Television Awards

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An Irish Music Television (or IMTV) Video Music Award is an accolade bestowed upon the Irish video makers, directors and artists involved in producing the best music videos from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during the previous year.{{cite web

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}} The awards have been given annually at a ceremony in Dublin since 2009,{{cite web

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}} organised by the website IrishMusic.TV (IMTV) with sponsorship from the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO).{{cite web

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| date=23 November 2011

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Recipients

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! Year !! Award !! Artist(s) !! Video !! Director(s)

rowspan=10 | 2009

| Most Original Concept || Fight Like Apes || "Something Global" || Eoghan Kidney

Best Solo Male VideoPearse McGloughlin"Ways To Kill A Werewolf"Kevin McGloughlin
Best Solo Female VideoWallis Bird"To My Bones"Philipp Kaessbohrer
Best Live VideoAnd So I Watch You From Afar"Set Guitars To Kill"Will McConnell
Best Dance VideoLe Galaxie"You Feel The Fire"Killian Broderick, Le Galaxie
Best Styled VideoJulie Feeney"Impossibly Beautiful"Vittoria Colonna
Best Production EffectsCap Pas Cap"We Are Men"Sam Boyd
Best Video By A NewcomerBowlegged"Red Lights"Peter J. McCarthy
Best DirectorEoghan Kidney
Video Of The YearValerie Francis"Punches"Eoghan Kidney
rowspan=11 | 2010{{cite web| title=IMTV Awards 2010 – The Results| last=Cuffe| first=Aidan| work=goldenplec.com| date=25 November 2010| url=http://www.goldenplec.com/imtv-awards-2010-results/| accessdate=21 May 2012}}

| Best Group Video || The Minutes || "Fleetwood" || Philip Kelly{{cite web| title=The Minutes: Fleetwood| last=Kelly| first=Philip| work=imphilip.com| url=http://imphilip.com/THE-MINUTES-Fleetwood| accessdate=21 May 2012}}

Most Original ConceptThe Ambience Affair"Devil In The Detail"Souljacker{{cite web| title=Ambience Affair has best video at IMTV Awards| work=entertainment.ie| date=25 November 2010| url=http://entertainment.ie/music/music-news-article.asp?NewsID=55405| accessdate=21 May 2012}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Best MaleThe Mighty Stef"Thank Christ for the Kids"Jessie Ward, Susie Morrell{{cite web| title=The Mighty Stef – Thank Christ For The Kids| work=nme.com| url=https://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/zuzPu2YbWCk| accessdate=21 May 2012}}
Best FemaleCathy Davey"Little Red"Lorcan Finnegan{{cite web |title=Cathy Davey's Little Red by Lorcan Finnegan |website=www.promonews.tv |url=https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2010/09/23/cathy-davey%E2%80%99s-little-red-lorcan-finnegan/6397 |accessdate=18 February 2020}}
Best Live VideoPrimordial"Empire Falls"
Best Styled VideoThe Coronas"Far From here"Simon Eustace{{cite web| title=The Coronas – Far From Here| work=nme.com| url=https://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/2CzhOV2Yf8s/| accessdate=21 May 2012}}
Sexiest VideoThe Rubberbandits"Bag Of Glue"
Best Production EffectsShit Robot"Take 'Em Up"Eoghan Kidney{{cite web| title=Video: Shit Robot – 'Take Em Up' directed by Eoghan Kidney| work=nialler9.com| url=http://www.nialler9.com/9346-video-shit-robot-take-em-up-director-eoghan-kidney/| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908024606/http://www.nialler9.com/9346-video-shit-robot-take-em-up-director-eoghan-kidney/| url-status=dead| archive-date=8 September 2012| accessdate=21 May 2012}}
Best DirectorMyles O'Reilly (musician)
Viewers ChoiceThe Gorgeous Colours"The Creatures Down Below"Stevie Russell{{cite web| title=The Gorgeous Colours – 'The Creatures Down Below'| work=nme.com| url=https://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/JipJ8H5aDKY| accessdate=21 May 2012}}
Video of the YearThe Ambience Affair"Devil In The Detail"Souljacker
rowspan=11 | 2011{{cite web| title=IMTV Winners 2011| work=irishmusictelevision.com| url=http://irishmusictelevision.com/?p=972| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203131310/http://irishmusictelevision.com/?p=972 | archive-date=3 December 2011 | url-status=usurped|accessdate=7 February 2012}}

| Best Group || The Minutes || "Black Keys" || Biba Logan

Most Original ConceptHam Sandwich"ANTS"Marc Corrigan
Best Male VideoJames Vincent McMorrow"Sparrow and the Wolf"John Phillipson, Elton Mullally, Rob Davis
Best Female VideoLisa Hannigan"Knots"Myles O'Reilly (musician)
Best Live VideoThe Minutes"IMTOD"Simon Eustace
Best Styled VideoI Draw Slow"Goldmine"Rory Bresnihan
Sexiest VideoEchogram"Conspiracy"Shaun O’Connor
Best Production EffectsFuneral Suits"Florida"Jonathan Irwin
Best DirectorVincent Gallagher
Viewers' ChoiceKing Kong Company"Acetate"John Loftus
Video of the YearLisa Hannigan"Little Bird"Myles O'Reilly (musician)

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