MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography | |
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Awarded for | Choreography |
Country | United States |
Presented by | MTV |
First awarded | 1984 |
Currently held by | Kiel Tutin, Sienna Lalau, Lee Jung (YGX) and Taryn Cheng (YGX) – "Pink Venom" by Blackpink (2023) |
Website | VMA website |
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography is a craft award given to the artist, the artist's manager, and choreographer of the music video. From 1984 to 2007, the full name of the award was Best Choreography in a Video. The biggest winner is Frank Gatson with six wins. Michael Rooney follows closely behind with five wins.
Frank Gatson is also the most nominated choreographer with eleven nominations. He is followed by Tina Landon with nine nominations (and yet only one win). The performers whose videos have won the most awards are Janet Jackson and Beyoncé, garnering a total of four Moonmen for choreography. Madonna's videos have received the most nominations with twelve.
Seven performers have won a Moonman in this category for their work choreographing or co-choreographing their own videos: Michael Jackson ("Thriller"), Prince ("Raspberry Beret"), Paula Abdul ("Straight Up"), Janet Jackson ("Rhythm Nation"), Madonna ("Ray of Light"), Shakira ("Hips Don't Lie"), Bruno Mars ("Treasure"), and OK Go ("I Won't Let You Down"). An additional ten other performers/groups have been nominated for their work choreographing their own videos: Toni Basil, Morris Day, Bobby Brown, MC Hammer, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Quad City DJ's, Jason Kay, Janelle Monáe, Beyoncé and Solange. Abdul, a professional choreographer before launching her musical career, was nominated twice for choreographing two Janet Jackson videos, and won for "Nasty" before winning again for her own video for "Straight Up". Basil, who is also a professional choreographer, is the only other artist to have been nominated for work on both their own videos and other artists.
Actor Christopher Walken won this award in 2001 for helping choreograph the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," in which he appears dancing. Similarly, Spike Jonze (as Richard Koufey) won this award in 1999 for his own dancing in Fatboy Slim's video "Praise You".
Recipients
[edit]1980s
[edit]1990s
[edit]2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]Year | Winner(s) | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
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2010 | Laurieann Gibson | "Bad Romance" (performed by Lady Gaga) |
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[27] |
2011 | Frank Gatson, Sheryl Murakami and Jeffrey Page | "Run the World (Girls)" (performed by Beyoncé) |
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[28] |
2012 | Anwar "Flii" Burton | "Turn Up the Music" (performed by Chris Brown) |
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[29] |
2013 | Bruno Mars | "Treasure" (performed by Bruno Mars) |
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[30] |
2014 | Ryan Heffington | "Chandelier" (performed by Sia) |
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[31] |
2015 | OK Go, air:man and Mori Harano | "I Won't Let You Down" (performed by OK Go) |
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[32] |
2016 | Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight and Dana Foglia | "Formation" (performed by Beyoncé) |
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[33] |
2017 | Teyana Taylor, Guapo, Matthew Pasterisa, Jae Blaze and Derek Watkins | "Fade" (performed by Kanye West) |
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[34] |
2018 | Sherrie Silver | "This is America" (performed by Childish Gambino) |
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[35] |
2019 | Charm La'Donna | "Con Altura" (performed by Rosalía and J Balvin featuring El Guincho) |
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[36] |
2020s
[edit]Year | Winner(s) | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
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2020 | The Lab and Son Sung Deuk | "On" (performed by BTS) |
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[37] |
2021 | Paul Roberts | "Treat People with Kindness" (performed by Harry Styles) |
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[38] |
2022 | "Fullout Cortland" (Cortland Brown) | "Woman" (performed by Doja Cat) |
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[39] |
2023 | Kiel Tutin, Sienna Lalau, Lee Jung (YGX) and Taryn Cheng (YGX) | "Pink Venom" (performed by Blackpink) |
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2024 | TBA | TBA |
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[41] |
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