{"id":818323,"date":"2026-08-19T02:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818323\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:48:13","slug":"2026-vmas-video-of-the-year-nominees-who-should-win-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818323\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 VMAs Video of the Year Nominees: Who Should Win? Vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe nominees for video of the year at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards<\/a> run the gamut. Four of the six nominated visuals accompanied smash hits: Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s \u201chate that i made you love me,\u201d Bruno Mars<\/a>\u2019 \u201cI Just Might\u201d and Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d all topped the Billboard Hot 100, and Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>\u2019s \u201cTears\u201d peaked at No. 3.<\/p>\n

\n\tMadonna is a video of the year nominee for the first time in 22 years for Confessions II \u2013 The Film, a 14-minute film that includes excerpts from six songs from her Billboard 200-topping album Confessions II. (One of them is her collab with Carpenter, \u201cBring Your Love,\u201d giving Carpenter a cameo appearance on a competitor to her own entry in this category.)<\/p>\n

\n\tGENER8ION\u2019s \u201cSTORM\u201d starring Yung Lean may be the biggest surprise among the nominees. GENER8ION is an audiovisual collaboration between French DJ Surkin and director Romain Gavras. Set in an all-boys British boarding school class of 2034, the film follows a disruptive and aggressive student portrayed by Swedish rapper Yung Lean.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift has won a record five times in the category. Grande won last year for Brighter Days Ahead, and Madonna won in 1998 for \u201cRay of Light.\u201d If Grande wins again this year, she\u2019ll become only the second artist to win back-to-back awards in the category, following Swift, who won in 2022, 2023 and 2024. If Madonna wins, she\u2019ll establish a new record for the longest span of video of the year wins \u2013 28 years. (The current record is held by Swift, with a nine-year span of awards, which could stretch to 11 years if she wins.) If Madonna wins, this would be the second year in a row that a longer-form film took the award. Brighter Days Ahead ran 26 minutes.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift directed her own video. Mars co-directed his clip with Daniel Ramos. As noted, Gavras directed \u201cStorm.\u201d The directors of the other nominees were Christian Breslauer (\u201chate that i made you love me\u201d), Bardia Zeinali (\u201cTears\u201d) and TORSO, the team of David Toro and Solomon Chase (Confessions II \u2013 The Film).<\/p>\n

\n\tSeveral of the videos<\/a> feature performances by big-name stars. Two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo appears in Carpenter\u2019s \u201cTears.\u201d Justin Long has a starring role in Grande\u2019s \u201chate that i made you love me.\u201d Confessions II \u2013 The Film features 16 guest stars, including Carpenter, Feid, Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia Garner and Kate Moss.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the six nominees for video of the year. Who would you like to see win? Vote!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nominees for video of the year at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards run the gamut. Four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[10546,88,45291,216,498,6879,45292],"class_list":["post-818323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-videos","tag-vmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}