At this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, the not-so-regular degular shmegular Cardi B—who opened the show in her first public appearance since giving birth a little more than a month ago—dominated the nominations, racking up 10 total including Best New Artist and Artist of the Year, and for “Bartier Cardi” and her Bruno Mars collab “Finesse (Remix).” The next most-nominated artist after Cardi was The Carters at eight, followed by seven each for Drake and Childish Gambino’s “This Is America”, which received nods for Video With a Message, Best Cinematography, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Choreography (and for a taste of that, watch Donald Glover’s choreographer Sherrie Silver break down some moves for Vogue), Best Art Direction, and Video of the Year, a category also filled by Cardi B and Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Drake, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z as The Carters. J.Lo won the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award—and A-Rod’s undying love.
MTV introduced some changes to the 2018 ceremony, replacing the Fight Against the System category with this year’s Video With a Message (a category for which Childish Gambino, DeJ Loaf and Leon Bridges, Drake, Janelle Monáe, Jessie Reyez, and Logic with Alessia Cara and Khalid were all nominated), as well as introducing a new award for Best Latin Video and a new category called Push Artist of the Year, intended to highlight emerging artists; Sigrid, Chloe x Halle, Khalid, and SZA were among the 15 artists nominated.
Below, all of the videos that won at this year’s MTV VMAs:
Video of the Year
Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug—“Havana”
Artist of the Year
Camila Cabello
Song of the Year
Post Malone ft. 21 Savage—“Rockstar”
Best New Artist
Cardi B
Best Collaboration
Jennifer Lopez ft. DJ Khaled and Cardi B—“Dinero”
Push Artist of the Year
Hayley Kiyoko
Best Pop
Ariana Grande—“No Tears Left to Cry”
Best Hip-Hop
Nicki Minaj—“Chun-Li”
Best Latin
J Balvin and Willy William—“Mi Gente”
Best Dance
Avicii ft. Rita Ora—“Lonely Together”
Best Rock
Imagine Dragons—“Whatever It Takes”
Video With a Message
Childish Gambino—“This Is America”
Best Cinematography
The Carters (cinematography by Benoît Debie)—“APES**T”
Best Direction
Childish Gambino (directed by Hiro Murai)—“This Is America”
Best Art Direction
The Carters (art direction by Jan Houlevigue)—“APES**T”
Best Visual Effects
Kendrick Lamar and SZA (visual effects by Loris Paillier for BUF Paris)—“All the Stars”
Best Choreography
Childish Gambino (choreography by Sherrie Silver)—“This Is America”
Best Editing
N.E.R.D and Rihanna (editing by Taylor Ward)—“Lemon”
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