MTV Video Music Awards / Best Alternative Video

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative (Music) Video was presented from 1989 to 1998 as part of the MTV Video Music Awards . It was aimed at artists who belonged to alternative rock in the broadest sense . That included music genres like indie , punk and grunge . Bands of these genres were continued under Best Rock Video after the end of the award . In 2020 the award came back surprisingly.

From 1989 to 1990 the award was known as Best Post-Modern Video , but was then renamed. Nirvana were the most successful band and won the award three times in a row between 1992 and 1994. Green Day was nominated four times.

Best Post-Modern Video

Award	year	Award winners	for the video	Nominations
1.	1989	SEM	Orange crush	The Cure - Fascination Street The Escape Club - Wild, Wild West * Love and Rockets - So Alive Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-a-Boo Jesus Jones
2.	1990	Sinéad O'Connor	Nothing Compares 2 U	Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love

Best alternative video

Award	year	Award winners	for the video	Nominations
1.	1991	Jane's Addiction	Been Caught Stealing	Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now REM - Losing My Religion The Replacements - When It Began
2.	1992	Nirvana	smells like Teen Spirit	Pearl Jam - Alive Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away The Soup Dragons - Divine Thing
3.	1993	Nirvana	In Bloom	4 Non Blondes - What's Up? Belly - Feed the Tree Porno for Pyros - Pets Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
4th	1994	Nirvana	Heart-Shaped Box	Beck - loser Green Day - Longview The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
5.	1995	Weezer	Buddy Holly	The Cranberries - Zombie Green Day - Basket Case Hole - Doll Parts Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
6th	1996	The Smashing Pumpkins	1979	Bush - glycerine Everclear - Santa Monica Foo Fighters - Big Me
7th	1997	Sublime	What I got	Beck - The New Pollution Blur - Song 2 Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
8th.	1998	Green Day	Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)	Ben Folds Five - Brick Garbage - Push It Radiohead - Karma Police The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
9.	2020			All Time Low - Some Kind of Disaster FINNEAS - Let's Fall in Love for the Night Lana Del Rey - Doin 'Time Machine Gun Kelly - Bloody Valentine The 1975 - If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) twenty one pilots - level of concern

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ WTF Happened To These Extinct VMA Categories? MTV.com, accessed July 11, 2019 .
^ Nielsen Business Media Inc: MTV Video Music Awards Drops and Adds Categories . In: Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., July 10, 1999, p. 89 ( google.ch [accessed on July 11, 2019]).

[1] WTF Happened To These Extinct VMA Categories? MTV.com, accessed July 11, 2019 .

[2] Nielsen Business Media Inc: MTV Video Music Awards Drops and Adds Categories . In: Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., July 10, 1999, p. 89 ( google.ch [accessed on July 11, 2019]).