Best Work of the Year
With 2022 about to enter the proverbial rearview mirror--and not soon enough for many of us--it’s time for reflection on varied fronts, including assessing what work was among the year’s most worthwhile creatively.
Determining any year’s “best” is a highly subjective proposition so ...
With 2021 about to enter the proverbial rearview mirror, it’s time for reflection on varied fronts, including assessing what work was among the year’s most worthwhile creatively.
Determining any year’s “best” is a highly subjective proposition so SHOOT staffers looked to at...
Stories from the womb--told in the form of a tour de force film for Bodyform and Libresse--took the #1 slot in SHOOT's Top Five VFX/Animation Chart of 2020. The piece encourages women to talk openly about the highs and lows of their intimate health--the pleasure, the pain, the love,...
2020 was a tumultuous year which made the value of inspirational messaging in response all the more important. A music video bringing a moving rendition of "Glory" front and center as performed by the Detroit Youth Choir scored as SHOOT's top track of the year.
Also in the mix in...
The year's Top Tracks finds the #1 slot filled by Dos Equis' "Hit Single," a loving tribute to timeless summer jams and ‘80s’ MTV Spring Break live performances as Beacon Street Studios brings its musical chops to bear in tandem with Bonnie Tyler’s 1982 hit single “Total Eclipse of the Heart,”...
A Bud Light Super Bowl ad that delivers an unexpected twist as it morphs into a promo for the final season of HBO's Game of Thrones takes the #1 slot in SHOOT's best of the year Top Five VFX/Animation Chart. VFX studios were The Mill and Pixomondo.
Also in the Top Five...
The very best of our The Best Work You May Never See gallery in 2019, as judged by SHOOT's staff, is topped by March For Our Lives' "Generation Lockdown" in which a major company seeks expert advice as to how to prepare for and deal with a workplace shooting. Sadly, the expert turns out...
Topping SHOOT's picks for the year's Best Work is a branded feature documentary, 5B, which not only debuted at the Cannes Film Festival but went on the next month to win the Entertainment Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. 5B is a wonderful...
The Best of SHOOT's The Best Work You May Never See gallery in 2018 includes a pair of entries from BBDO New York--Cure Alzheimer’s Fund’s “Daughter and Mother” which took the #1 slot, and Day One’s Sunshine short which came in at #4.
The other three top 5 finishers are...
On the strength of Ad Council's Rising, Ntropic LA ascended to the #1 position in the Top Five VFX/Animation Chart for 2018. Right behind it is animation studio Lobo for Day One's Sunshine short. Finishing third is am ambitious Kia Super Bowl spot, followed by a "Famous Five"-...