{"id":629688,"date":"2026-09-28T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629688\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:02:08","slug":"taylor-swift-wins-first-ever-vmas-directors-honor-gives-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/629688\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Wins First-Ever VMAs Director\u2019s Honor, Gives Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> became the first recipient of the MTV Video Music Awards<\/a>\u2019 Artist Director Honor on Sunday, presented to her by Dakota Johnson. \u201cShe is an architect of emotional landscapes filled with the most intimate and intricate details,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cTaylor has spent the majority of her life on set, telling tales and building worlds. She isn\u2019t just one of the most decorated artists in the history of the VMAs \u2014 she is the single most recognized video director in this show\u2019s history.\u00a0 She is a visionary, with a relentless drive for perfection in everything she does, and still holds the artistry and the cardinal virtue to never lose sight of the ineffable magic spark at the center of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her speech, Swift pointed out that she\u2019s been making music videos for 20 years. \u201cAnd since then,\u201d she said, \u201cI\u2019ve gotten to be a part of making 60 music videos \u2014 roughly 18 of those, I wrote and directed. I gotta tell you, the main reason why I love writing and directing music videos so much is because you, the fans, make it so much fun.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou make it so rewarding because you actually care about what we\u2019re making, so I want to say thank you to everyone who ever worked on a music video that I got to be a part of. I learned something from every single person that ever worked alongside me on these projects.\u00a0 Mainly, I want to say thank you to the fans.\u201d From there, she introduced her new video for \u201cPatient Video,\u201d starring Johnson and Colin Farrell.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift earned 11\u00a0nominations<\/a>\u00a0at the 2026\u00a0MTV VMAs<\/a>, including for Artist of the Year, while the video for her\u00a0Life of a Showgirl\u00a0hit \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d is nominated for Video of the Year and numerous creative prizes.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSwift has been nominated for Best Direction at the VMAs eight times. She\u2019s previously won four Moon Persons in the category for \u201cThe Man,\u201d\u00a0All Too Well: The Short Film, \u201cAnti-Hero,\u201d and \u201cFortnight.\u201d . Swift\u2019s four Best Direction VMA wins holds the record, ahead of David Fincher\u2019s three.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday ahead of the VMAs, Swift released an extended version of Showgirl, which features four tracks<\/a>, including \u201cPatient Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift became the first recipient of the MTV Video Music Awards\u2019 Artist Director Honor on Sunday, presented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,1097,1289,409,2070,282705],"class_list":["post-629688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-mtv-vmas","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift","tag-vmas-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}