| MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year | |
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Logo ofMTV | |
| Awarded for | Music videos |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | MTV |
| First award | 1984 |
| Currently held by | Ariana Grande –Brighter Days Ahead (2025) |
| Most wins | Taylor Swift (5) |
| Most nominations | Eminem (9) |
| Website | Official website |
TheMTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the most prestigious competitive award and the final award presented at the annualMTV Video Music Awards.[1] The award was created by the U.S. networkMTV to honor artists with the bestmusic videos.[2] At the first MTV Video Music Awards ceremony in1984, the Video of the Year honor was presented toThe Cars for the video "You Might Think".[3] Originally, all winners were determined by a special panel of music video directors, producers, and record company executives.[4] Since the2006 awards, winners of major categories are determined by viewers' votes through MTV's website, while the jury decides in the technical categories.[5] Beginning in2021,Burger King sponsors the category through a partnership withParamount, resulting in the award being presented asMTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year Presented by Burger King.[6][7]
Taylor Swift holds the record for the most wins, with a total of five for "Bad Blood" (2015), "You Need to Calm Down" (2019),All Too Well: The Short Film (2022), “Anti-Hero" (2023) and "Fortnight" (2024).Eminem holds the record for the most nominations, with eight as lead artist.[a]David Lee Roth (1985), U2 (1988),Lady Gaga (2010) andBruno Mars (2025) are the only acts to have had two Video of the Year nominations in a single ceremony.[9] Two acts have won both the Video of the Year and the honoraryMichael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in the same night—Peter Gabriel in1987 with "Sledgehammer" andJustin Timberlake in2013 with "Mirrors".[10][11] Swift is the first artist to win Video of the Year for a self-directed video, withAll Too Well: The Short Film; she also ranks as the artist with the most Video of the Year trophies for self-directed videos, with a total of three.Kendrick Lamar, Swift,Lil Nas X, andAriana Grande have further won the award for a video they co-directed: Lamar for "Humble" in2017, Swift for "You Need to Calm Down" in 2019, Lil Nas X for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" in2021, and Grande forBrighter Days Ahead in2025.[b]




| † | Marks winners of theGrammy Award for Best Music Video |
| * | Marks nominees of theGrammy Award for Best Music Video |
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