MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video | |
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Awarded for | Music videos |
Country | Europe |
Presented by | MTV |
First awarded | 1994 |
Currently held by | Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone – "Fortnight" (2024) |
Most awards | Taylor Swift (4) |
Most nominations | Taylor Swift (7) |
Website | ema.mtv.tv/ |
The MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video is an award category presented at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The award was first presented in 1994 under the name Best Director, awarded to Whale's "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe". This is the only MTV EMA award - excluding special awards - whose winner is chosen by MTV, rather than by the public. "Hey Ya!", "Born This Way" and "Havana" are the only music videos to also win Best Song. The artist with the most wins is Taylor Swift with four wins. Taylor Swift is the artist with the most nominations, with seven. Swift and Kendrick Lamar are the only performers to have won the award for a video they co-directed: Lamar for "Humble" in 2017 and Swift for "Me!" in 2019.[1]