MADONNA WEEK: Her Top 12 Videos, Ranked

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8. Frozen (Chris Cunningham, 1998)
One of, if not the, darkest videos Madonna has made. Both visually and thematically. Levitating above a desert flat and erupting into a murder of crows, this video from Chris Cunningham gave Madonna one of her most striking ever to accompany one of her richest and most luxurious compositions.

6. Express Yourself (David Fincher, 1989)
It doesn’t get much more classic Madonna than this David Fincher-directed and Metropolis-inspired masterpiece that features the singer as the wife of the owner of an enormous factory populated by soaking wet, shirtless muscled men. See, classic Madonna. Dazzling photography and production values, to the tune of $5 million dollars (a record for a music video at the time) give the video a lush look and Madonna’s takeover of the company reinforces her commitment to gender-bending politics in her work.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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