Shane Drake

Shane Clayton Drake
Shane Drake in 2014
Born	(1974-09-08) September 8, 1974 (age 50)
Occupations	Music video director director editor
Years active	2001–present
Website	saysopictures.com

Shane C. Drake is an American music video director and producer^{[1][2][3][4][5]} originally from Redding, California. He has directed videos for many artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Avril Lavigne, Trivium, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Flo Rida, Timbaland, Blindside, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Almost, Hawthorne Heights, Subseven, and AJR. He is best known for Panic! At the Disco: I Write Sins Not Tragedies (2006), Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift: Highway Don't Care (2013) and Paramore: Misery Business (2007).^[6]

Early career

Early in his career, Drake spent time working as an editor and cinematographer with such bands as Poison the Well, Deftones, Thursday and many more. He now spends most of his time directing. Drake has directed videos for some of today's biggest acts. He owns Say So Pictures, a California-based production company.^[7]

Awards

In 2006 Drake was awarded the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for Panic! at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies".^[8]

In 2007 Drake was nominated for the MTV Monster Single of the Year for his video for Timbaland's "The Way I Are". In 2008, he was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction and MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video with Panic! at the Disco's "Nine in the Afternoon" and MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video with Paramore's "Crushcrushcrush" and also Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It". In 2009 Drake was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video for his video for Paramore's "Decode" from the Twilight film soundtrack album. In 2012, he was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message for Kelly Clarkson's "Dark Side".

At the 48th Academy of Country Music Awards Drake took home music video of the year for the Little Big Town song "Tornado" starring Johnathon Schaech.^[9]

In 2013 the "Highway Don't Care" film won Drake, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban the Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year.

Drake would go on to win two CMT awards in the coming years, one in 2015 for the Lady A music video for their song, "Bartender" starring Tony Hale and Kate Upton, the other in 2019 for the Carrie Underwood music video for her song "Love Wins".^[10]

Music videography

Year	Artist	Video
2001	Subseven	"Emotion"
2002	mewithoutYou	"Bullet To Binary"
2004	Fall Out Boy	"Saturday"
	Hawthorne Heights	"Ohio Is For Lovers"
	mewithoutYou	"January 1979"
	Silverstein	"Smashed Into Pieces"
	The Beautiful Mistake	"This Is Who You Are"
2005	Paramore	"Pressure"
	My American Heart	"The Process"
	Blindside	"Fell In Love With The Game"
	Trivium	"A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation"
	Still Remains	"The Worst Is Yet To Come"
	The Audition	"You've Made Us Conscious"
	June	"Patrick"
	Between The Buried And Me	"Alaska"
	Armor for Sleep	"Car Underwater"
2006	Showbread	"Oh! Emetophobia!"
	Mewithoutyou	"Nice And Blue (Part 2)"
	Gia Farrell	"Hit Me Up"
	Trick Daddy feat. Chamillionaire	"Bet That"
	Head Automatica	"Lying Through Your Teeth"
	Less Than Jake	"The Rest Of My Life"
	Gym Class Heroes	"The Queen And I"
	Paramore	"Emergency"
	An Angle	"Green Water"
	Moneen	"If Tragedy's Appealing, Then Disaster's An Addiction"
	Needtobreathe	"You Are Here"
	Panic! at the Disco	"But It's Better If You Do"
		"I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
	Jonezetta	"Get Ready (Hot Machete)"
2007	The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	"False Pretense"
		"Your Guardian Angel"
	Paramore	"Misery Business"
		"crushcrushcrush"
	The Almost	"Southern Weather"
	The Rocket Summer	"So Much Love"
	Say Anything starring Henry Winkler	"Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too"
	The Almost	"Say This Sooner"
	The Higher	"Insurance?"
	The Cheetah Girls	"So This Is Love"
	New Years Day	"I Was Right"
	Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson	"The Way I Are"
	Angels & Airwaves	"Everything's Magic"
	Plain White T's	"Our Time Now"
	Paul Van Dyk	"Let Go"
2008	Panic! at the Disco	"Nine in the Afternoon"
	Forever the Sickest Kids	"Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone)"
	Fall Out Boy feat. John Mayer	"Beat It"
	Flo Rida feat. will.i.am	"In The Ayer"
	Shwayze	"Corona & Lime"
	Plain White T's starring Tiffany Dupont	"Natural Disaster"
	Paramore	"Decode"
2009	Madina Lake	"Never Take Us Alive"
	Flo Rida feat. Wynter Gordon	"Sugar"
	Darius Rucker	"History in the Making"
	The Almost	"Lonely Wheel"
		"Hands"
	Honor Society	"Over You"
2010	Laura Bell Bundy	"Giddy On Up"
	Papa Roach	"Kick in the Teeth"
	Panic! At The Disco	"The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
		"The Overture"
2011	Avril Lavigne	"Smile"
	Panic! At the Disco	"Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)"
	Brantley Gilbert	"Country Must Be Country Wide"
	Paramore	"Monster"
	Scotty McCreery	"I Love You This Big"
	Justin Moore	"Bait a Hook"
	Drive A	"Let's Have a Wreck (Trainwreck)"
	Kelly Clarkson	"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
2012	Daughtry	"Outta My Head"
	Kelly Clarkson	"Dark Side"
	Three Days Grace	"Chalk Outline"
	Little Big Town starring Johnathon Schaech	"Tornado"
	Brantley Gilbert	"More Than Miles"
	L.P.	"Into the Wild"[11]
2013	Lawson	"Learn to Love Again"
	Tegan and Sara	"I Was a Fool"
	Tim McGraw feat. Taylor Swift & Keith Urban	"Highway Don't Care"
	The Wanted	"Walks Like Rihanna"
	Avril Lavigne	"Here's To Never Growing Up"
	Tim McGraw	"Southern Girl"
	Danielle Bradbery	"The Heart of Dixie"
	Daughtry	"Waiting for Superman"
	Hunter Hayes feat. Jason Mraz	"Everybody's Got Somebody but Me"
	Brantley Gilbert	"Bottoms Up"
	The Cadillac Three	"The South"
2014	Brett Eldredge	"Beat of the Music"
	Haley & Michaels	"Just Another Love Song"[12]
	Danielle Bradbery	"Young in America"
	A Day To Remember	"End of Me"
	Lady Antebellum starring Tony Hale and Kate Upton	"Bartender"
	Tim McGraw feat. Faith Hill	"Meanwhile Back at Mama's"[13]
	Dustin Lynch	"Where It's At (Yep, Yep)"[14]
	Justin Moore feat. Vince Neil	"Home Sweet Home"[15]
	Brantley Gilbert feat. Justin Moore & Thomas Rhett	"Small Town Throwdown"[16]
	Brett Eldredge	"Mean to Me"[17]
2015	Brantley Gilbert	"One Hell of an Amen"[18]
	Keith Urban	"John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16"[19]
	Brantley Gilbert	"Stone Cold Sober"[20]
	G.E.M.	"Goodbye"
2016	Justin Moore	"You Look Like I Need a Drink"[21]
	Brett Young	"Sleep Without You"[22]
	Colette Carr	"Play House"[23]
	Hillary Scott & the Scott Family	"Thy Will"[24]
	Luke Bryan	"Move"[25]
	Carrie Underwood	"Dirty Laundry"[26]
2017	AJR	"Weak"
	Yo Gotti	"Juice"
2018	Ella Mai	"Trip"
	Tim McGraw	"Neon Church"
	Yo Gotti feat. Chris Brown	"Save It For Me"
	Carrie Underwood	"Love Wins"
2019	Kelsea Ballerini	"Miss Me More"
2020	Kelsea Ballerini	"Homecoming Queen?"
2021	Donnie Osmond	"Who"
2022	Parmalee	"Take My Hand"

Awards and honors

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2006	MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year	"I Write Sins Not Tragedies" by Panic! At The Disco	Won	[27][28]
	MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video		Nominated
	MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist		Nominated
	MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video		Nominated
	MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video		Nominated
2007	MTV Video Music Award for Monster Single of the Year	"The Way I Are" by Timbaland (featuring) Keri Hilson	Nominated	[29]
2008	MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video	"Crushcrushcrush" by Paramore	Nominated	[30]
	MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video	"Beat It" by Fall Out Boy (featuring) John Mayer	Nominated
	MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video	"Nine In The Afternoon" by Panic! At The Disco	Nominated
	MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction		Nominated
2009	MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video	"Decode" by Paramore (from the movie) Twilight	Nominated	[31]
2012	MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message	"Dark Side" by Kelly Clarkson	Nominated	[32]
2013	Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year	"Highway Don't Care" by Tim McGraw feat. Taylor Swift & Keith Urban	Won	[33]
	Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year	"Tornado" by Little Big Town (starring) Johnathon Schaech	Nominated	[34]
	Academy of Country Music Awards for Video of the Year	"Tornado" by Little Big Town (starring) Johnathon Schaech	Won	[35]
2014	Academy of Country Music Awards for Video of the Year	"Highway Don't Care" by Tim McGraw feat. Taylor Swift & Keith Urban	Won	[36]
2015	CMT Music Award for Best Group Video	"Bartender" by Lady Antebellum	Won	[37][38]
2016	CMT Music Award for Best Male Video	"John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" by Keith Urban	Nominated	[39]
2019	MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video	"Trip" by Ella Mai	Nominated	[40][41]
	CMT Music Awards for Video of the Year	"Love Wins" by Carrie Underwood	Won	[42][43]
2023	CMT Music Awards for Duo/Group Video of The Year	"Take My Name" by Parmalee	Nominated	[44]

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External links

• Say So Pictures - Shane Drake Official Website
• mvdbase.com - Shane C. Drake Videography Archived November 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
• I Write Sins Not Tragedies page at MTV Video Music Awards site.
• Shane Drake at IMDb