Watch videos from Camilla Cabello, Cardi B, Childish Gambino, The Carters and more.
At this year's MTV Video Music Awards, the not-so-regular degular shmegular Cardi B—who opened the show in her first appearance since giving birth a little over a month ago—dominated the nominations, racking up 10 total, including Best New Artist and Artist of the Year for "Bartier Cardi" and her Bruno Mars collab "Finesse (Remix)." The next most nominated artist after Cardi was Childish Gambino's "This Is America," with seven total, including for Best Video with a Message, Best Cinematography, Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Choreography (and for a taste of that, watch Donald Glover's choreographer, Sherrie Silver, break down some moves for Vogue), Best Art Direction, and Video of the Year, a category also filled by Cardi B and Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Drake, and Beyoncé and Jay Z, as The Carters. J. Lo won the MTV Video Vanguard award—and A.Rod's undying love.
MTV introduced some changes to the 2018 ceremony, replacing the “Fight Against the System” category with this year’s “Video with a Message” (a category for which Childish Gambino, Dej Loaf and Leon Bridges, Drake, Janelle Monáe, Jessie Reyez, and Logic ft. Alessia Cara & Khalid were all nominated), as well as introducing a new award for best Latin video, and a new category called “Push Artist of the Year,” intended to highlight emerging artists; Sigrid, Chloe x Halle, Khalid, and SZA were among the 15 artists nominated.
Below, all of the winning videos that won at this year's MTV VMAs:
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug – “Havana” – Syco Music/Epic Records
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Camila Cabello – Syco Music/Epic Records
SONG OF THE YEAR
Post Malone ft. 21 Savage – “rockstar” – Republic Records
BEST NEW ARTIST (Presented by Taco Bell®)
Cardi B – Atlantic Records
BEST COLLABORATION
Jennifer Lopez ft. DJ Khaled & Cardi B – “Dinero” – Epic Records/Nuyorican Productions
PUSH ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Hayley Kiyoko – Atlantic Records
BEST POP
Ariana Grande – “No Tears Left to Cry” – Republic Records
BEST HIP HOP
Nicki Minaj – “Chun-Li” – Young Money/Cash Money Records
BEST LATIN
J Balvin, Willy William – “Mi Gente” – Scorpio Music/UMLE
BEST DANCE
Avicii ft. Rita Ora – “Lonely Together” – Geffen Records
BEST ROCK
Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes” – KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records
VIDEO WITH A MESSAGE
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” – mcDJ / RCA Records
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Carters – “APES**T” – Roc Nation/Parkwood Entertainment – Cinematography by Benoit Debie
BEST DIRECTION
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” – mcDJ / RCA Records – Directed by Hiro Murai
BEST ART DIRECTION
The Carters – “APES**T” – Roc Nation/Parkwood Entertainment – Art Direction by Jan Houlevigue
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Kendrick Lamar & SZA – “All The Stars” – TDE/Aftermath/Interscope Records – Visual Effects by Loris Paillier for BUF Paris
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Childish Gambino – “This Is America” – mcDJ / RCA Records – Choreography by Sherrie Silver
BEST EDITING
N.E.R.D & Rihanna – “Lemon” – i am OTHER/Columbia Records – Editing by Taylor Ward
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