NEW YORK—Prizes seem to be proliferating around the art world these days, though only one focuses on video art and can boast actress Isabella Rossellini as its chair: the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize, which has bestowed honors this year on Christopher Coleman, Jacopo Ceccarelli, and the artist collective Improv Everywhere.

Denver-based artist Christopher Coleman netted the $20,000 grand prize, for The Magnitude of the Continental Divide, an animated "think-piece on the state of modern warfare." Ceccarelli, who also sometimes goes by the name 2501, netted the Best Street Art Award and a $5,000 check for his work Mask.

Finally, taking home the Audience Award was Improv Everywhere, for its Subway Yearbook Photos piece, in which they opened on a photography studio on New York City transit cars, claiming they had been hired by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to produce a yearbook of every rider who uses the system. They, too, will net $5,000.

Organizers of the prize say that the awards attracted over 400 submissions. The winners, as wells as some runners-up, will have their videos screened on Dec. 17 at 7:00 p.m. in Times Square at a special event hosted by Rossellini.