MTV Video Music Awards / Most Experimental Video

The MTV Video Music Awards for Most Experimental Video was presented from 1984 to 1987. It was the predecessor of the award for the Breakthrough Video , which was awarded from 1988 to 2010. Both categories were about honoring videos that were exceptional in their design.

Overview

Award	year	Award winners	for the video	Nominations
1.	1984	Herbie Hancock	Rockit	The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Answer Me The Cars - You Might Think Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! Neil Young - Wonderin '
2.	1985	The Art of Noise	Close (to the edit)	Lindsey Buckingham - Go Insane Lindsey Buckingham - Slow Dancing Chris Isaak - Dancin Lone Justice - Ways to Be Wicked
3.	1986	Aha	Take On Me	Pat Benatar - Sex as a Weapon Dire Straits - Money for Nothing X - Burning House of Love ZZ Top - Rough Boy
4th	1987	Peter Gabriel	Sledgehammer	Eurythmics - Missionary Man Genesis - Land of Confusion Huey Lewis and the News - Hip to Be Square Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble

Individual evidence

↑ Carla Haye: MTV Video Music Awards Drops and Adds Categories . In: Billboard . July 10, 1999, ISSN 0006-2510 , p. 89 .
↑ MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS HISTORY: MOST EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO. Rockonthenet.com, accessed July 30, 2019 .
↑ Carla Haye: MTV Video Music Awards Drops and Adds Categories . In: Billboard . July 10, 1999, ISSN 0006-2510 , p. 89 .

[1] Carla Haye: MTV Video Music Awards Drops and Adds Categories . In: Billboard . July 10, 1999, ISSN 0006-2510 , p. 89 .

[2] MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS HISTORY: MOST EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO. Rockonthenet.com, accessed July 30, 2019 .

[3] Carla Haye: MTV Video Music Awards Drops and Adds Categories . In: Billboard . July 10, 1999, ISSN 0006-2510 , p. 89 .