MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video

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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.

MTV Video Music Award
for Best Alternative
Awarded forAlternative rock music videos
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First award1991
Currently held bySombr – "Back to Friends" (2025)
Most awardsNirvana (3)
Most nominations
  • Imagine Dragons
  • MGK
(4 each)
WebsiteVMA website

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

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
1991 Jane's Addiction "Been Caught Stealing"
  • Jesus Jones – "Right Here, Right Now"
  • R.E.M. – "Losing My Religion"
  • The Replacements – "When It Began"
1992 Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
  • Pearl Jam – "Alive"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Give It Away"
  • The Soup Dragons – "Divine Thing"
1993 Nirvana "In Bloom"
  • 4 Non Blondes – "What's Up?"
  • Belly – "Feed the Tree"
  • Porno for Pyros – "Pets"
  • Stone Temple Pilots – "Plush"
1994 Nirvana "Heart-Shaped Box"
  • Beck – "Loser"
  • Green Day – "Longview"
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – "Disarm"
1995 Weezer "Buddy Holly"
  • The Cranberries – "Zombie"
  • Green Day – "Basket Case"
  • Hole – "Doll Parts"
  • Stone Temple Pilots – "Interstate Love Song"
1996 The Smashing Pumpkins "1979"
  • Bush – "Glycerine"
  • Everclear – "Santa Monica"
  • Foo Fighters – "Big Me"
1997 Sublime "What I Got"
  • Beck – "The New Pollution"
  • Blur – "Song 2"
  • Foo Fighters – "Monkey Wrench"
  • Nine Inch Nails – "The Perfect Drug"
1998 Green Day "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
  • Ben Folds Five – "Brick"
  • Garbage – "Push It"
  • Radiohead – "Karma Police"
  • The Verve – "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
1999 N/a

2020s

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Video Nominees Ref.
2020 Machine Gun Kelly "Bloody Valentine"
  • The 1975 – "If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)"
  • All Time Low – "Some Kind of Disaster"
  • Lana Del Rey – "Doin' Time"
  • FINNEAS – "Let's Fall in Love for the Night"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "Level of Concern"
2021 Machine Gun Kelly (featuring Blackbear) "My Ex's Best Friend"
  • Bleachers – "Stop Making This Hurt"
  • Glass Animals – "Heat Waves"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Follow You"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "Shy Away"
  • Willow (featuring Travis Barker) – "Transparent Soul"
2022 Måneskin "I Wanna Be Your Slave"
  • Imagine Dragons and JID – "Enemy"
  • Avril Lavigne (featuring Blackbear) – "Love It When You Hate Me"
  • Machine Gun Kelly (featuring Willow) – "Emo Girl"
  • Panic! at the Disco – "Viva Las Vengeance"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "Saturday"
  • Willow and Avril Lavigne (featuring Travis Barker) – "Grow"
2023 Lana Del Rey (featuring Jon Batiste) "Candy Necklace"
  • Blink-182 – "Edging"
  • Boygenius – "The Film"
  • Fall Out Boy – "Hold Me Like a Grudge"
  • Paramore – "This Is Why"
  • Thirty Seconds to Mars – "Stuck"
2024 Benson Boone "Beautiful Things"
  • Bleachers – "Tiny Moves"
  • Hozier – "Too Sweet"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Eyes Closed"
  • Linkin Park – "Friendly Fire"
  • Teddy Swims – "Lose Control (Live)"
2025 Sombr "Back to Friends"
  • Gigi Perez – "Sailor Song"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Wake Up"
  • Lola Young – "Messy"
  • MGK and Jelly Roll – "Lonely Road"
  • The Marías – "Back to Me"

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