MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video

Template:Short description Template:Infobox award The MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative (also known as Best Alternative Music Video) was first given out at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. Prior to being called Best Alternative Video, it was known as Best Post-Modern Video in 1989 and 1990.

After the 1998 ceremony, this award was eliminated, and it was not presented until over two decades later, when it was brought back for the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, under the name Best Alternative. During its discontinuation, artists and videos who would have normally been eligible for this award became eligible for other genre categories, including Best Rock Video.

Nirvana is the biggest winner of this award, winning all three of their consecutive bids for the Moonman from 1992 to 1994. Imagine Dragons and MGK have the most nominations with four each.

Recipients

1990s

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YearTemplate:Efn	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Template:Abbr
Template:Mtvvma	Jane's Addiction	"Been Caught Stealing"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1991">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Nirvana	"Smells Like Teen Spirit"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1992">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Nirvana	"In Bloom"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1993">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Nirvana	"Heart-Shaped Box"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1994">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Weezer	"Buddy Holly"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1995">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	The Smashing Pumpkins	"1979"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1996">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Sublime	"What I Got"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1997">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Green Day	"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA1998">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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2020s

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YearTemplate:Efn	Winner(s)	Video	Nominees	Template:Abbr
Template:Mtvvma	Machine Gun Kelly	"Bloody Valentine"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref name="VMA2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Machine Gun Kelly Template:Small	"My Ex's Best Friend"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Måneskin	"I Wanna Be Your Slave"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Template:Mtvvma	Lana Del Rey Template:Small	"Candy Necklace"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2024	Benson Boone	"Beautiful Things"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2025	Sombr	"Back to Friends"	Template:Smalldiv	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Post-Modern Video