The
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honour the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video categor ...
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
Michael Joseph Kyle Rooney is an American dancer and choreographer. He is the son of actor Mickey Rooney, and is best known for his work on music videos. Rooney has won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002 an ...
follows closely behind with five wins.
Frank Gatson is also the most nominated choreographer with eleven nominations. He is followed by
Tina Landon
Tina Landon (born January 6, 1963) is an American choreographer based in Los Angeles who has worked with Prince, Anastacia, Mýa, Pink, Jay-Z, Marc Anthony, Kristi Yamaguchi, Aerosmith, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Janet Jack ...
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
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("
Thriller"),
Prince
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("
Raspberry Beret
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Background
The sound of the song expanded upon previous Prince arrangements, incorpo ...
"),
Paula Abdul ("
Straight Up"),
Janet Jackson ("
Rhythm Nation
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"),
Madonna ("
Ray of Light
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"),
Shakira
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("
Hips Don't Lie"),
Bruno Mars
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("
Treasure
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"), 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.
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
References
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MTV Video Music Awards
Awards established in 1984