MTV Video Music Awards 2020

MTV Video Music Awards 2020
Awarded for	MTV Video Music Awards
date	August 30, 2020
Moderation	Keke Palmer
Loan location	New York City
Country	United States
Awarded by	MTV
Most of the nominations	Ariana Grande & Lady Gaga (nine each)
website	mtv.com/vma

The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards ceremony took place in New York City on August 30, 2020 . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , the event, which was originally intended to be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in front of little or no audience, has been moved outside. Instead, live concerts are to take place in front of little or no audience across the city's five boroughs. The hygiene regulations should be complied with comprehensively.

The 17 nominations for the Push Best New Artist were announced on July 23, 2020, the remaining nominations on July 30, 2020. Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga lead them with nine nominations each , followed by Billie Eilish and The Weeknd with six each .

Keke Palmer was the moderator .

Nominations and winners

Winners are shown in bold.

Video of the Year

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

Eminem (featuring Juice WRLD ) - Godzilla
Future (featuring Drake ) - Life Is Good
Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande - Rain on Me
Taylor Swift - The Man
Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted

Black Eyed Peas (featuring J Balvin ) - Ritmo (Bad Boys for Life)
Future (featuring Drake ) - Life Is Good
Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber - Stuck with U
Karol G and Nicki Minaj - Tusa
Ed Sheeran (featuring Khalid ) - Beautiful People

Best pop

BTS - On

Justin Bieber (featuring Quavo ) - Intentions
Halsey - You Should Be Sad
Jonas Brothers - What a Man Gotta Do
Lady Gaga with Ariana Grande - Rain on Me
Taylor Swift - Lover

Best hip hop

Megan Thee Stallion - Savage

DaBaby - Bop
Eminem (featuring Juice Wrld ) - Godzilla
Future (featuring Drake ) - Life Is Good
Roddy Ricch - The Box
Travis Scott - Highest in the Room

Best R&B

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

Chloe x Halle - Do It
HER (featuring YG ) - Slide
Alicia Keys - underdog
Khalid (featuring Summer Walker ) - Eleven
Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

Best K-Pop

BTS - On

Exo - obsession
(G) I-dle - Oh My God
Monsta X - Someone's Someone
Red Velvet - Psycho
TXT - 9 and Three Quarters (Run Away)

Best Latin

Maluma (featuring J Balvin ) - Qué Pena

Anuel AA (featuring Daddy Yankee , Ozuna , Karol G and J Balvin ) - China
Bad Bunny - Yo Perreo Sola
J Balvin - Amarillo
Black Eyed Peas (featuring Ozuna and J. Rey Soul ) - Mamacita
Karol G and Nicki Minaj - Tusa

Best rock

Coldplay - Orphans

blink-182 - Happy Days
Evanescence - Wasted on You
Fall Out Boy (featuring Wyclef Jean ) - Dear Future Self (Hands Up)
Green Day - Oh Yeah!
The Killers - Caution

Best alternative

Machine Gun Kelly - Bloody Valentine

All Time Low - Some Kind of Disaster
FINNEAS - Let's Fall in Love for the Night
Lana Del Rey - Doin 'Time
The 1975 - If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)
twenty one pilots - level of concern

Best Music Video from Home

Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber - Stuck with U

5 Seconds of Summer - Wildflower
blink-182 - Happy Days
Drake - Toosie Slide
John Legend - Bigger Love
twenty one pilots - level of concern

Best quarantine performance

CNCO - MTV Unplugged at Home

Chloe x Halle - Do It (from MTV Prom-Athon )
DJ D-Nice - Club MTV Presents: #DanceTogether
Lady Gaga - Smile (from One World: Together At Home )
John Legend - #TogetherAtHome Concert Series
Post Malone - Nirvana Tribute

Video for Good

HER - I Can't Breathe

Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell
Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture
Demi Lovato - I Love Me
Anderson Paak - Lockdown
Taylor Swift - The Man

Best Direction

Taylor Swift - The Man (Director: Taylor Swift)

Doja Cat - Say So (Director: Hannah Lux Davis )
Billie Eilish - xanny (Director: Billie Eilish)
Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now (Director: Nabil )
Harry Styles - Adore You (Director: Dave Meyers )
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (Director: Anton Tammi )

Best Art Direction

Miley Cyrus - Mother's Daughter (Art Director: Christian Stone)

A $ AP Rocky - Babushka Boi (Art Directors: A $ AP Rocky and Nadia Lee Cohen )
Selena Gomez - Boyfriend (Art Director: Tatiana Van Sauter)
Dua Lipa - Physical (Art Director: Anna Colomé Nogu)
Harry Styles - Adore You (Art Director: Laura Ellis Cricks)
Taylor Swift - Lover (Art Director: Kurt Gefke)