2023 MTV VMA: Taylor Swift rocked, taking home four awards, including song and video of the year for “Anti-Hero.”
The VMAs 2023 celebrated on Tuesday the nearly 40 years since the awards programme debuted on September 14, 1984, bringing together big figures to honor the most outstanding music videos.
Taylor Swift became the top nominee going into the 2023 MTV VMAs, but she left the event as the main winner, walking away with four televised awards, including the top award for video of the year.
She was also voted artist of the year and her Eras Tour won show of the summer, and her “Anti-Hero” video took home two technical prizes off-air (best cinematography and best visual effects).
Who else took home VMAs? Find all the winners below:
- Video of the year: Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero”
- Artist of the year: Taylor Swift
- Song of the year: Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero”
- Best new artist: Ice Spice
- Best pop: Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero”
- Best hip-hop: Nicki Minaj — “Super Freaky Girl”
- Best R&B: SZA — “Shirt”
- Best alternative: Lana Del Rey ft. Jon Batiste — “Candy Necklace”
- Best rock: Måneskin — “THE LONELIEST”
- Best latin: Anitta — “Funk Rave”
- Best K-Pop: Stray Kids — “S-Class”
- Best Afrobeats: Rema & Selena Gomez — “Calm Down”
- Video for good: Dove Cameron — “Breakfast”
- Best direction: Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero.” Directed by Taylor Swift
- Best cinematography: Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero.” Cinematography by Rina Yang.
- Best visual effects: Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero.” Visual effects by Parliament.
- Best choreography: BLACKPINK — “Pink Venom,” Kiel Tutin, Sienna Lalau.
- Best art direction: Doja Cat — “Attention.” Art direction by Spencer Graves.
- Best editing: Olivia Rodrigo — “vampire.” Edited by Sofia Kerpan and David Checel.
- Show of the summer: Taylor Swift
- Group of the year: BLACKPINK
- Song of the summer: Jung Kook ft. Latto — “Seven”
- Album of the year: Taylor Swift— “Midnights”
- Push performance of the year: April 2023: TOMORROW X TOGETHER — “Sugar Rush Ride”
- Best collaboration: KAROL G, Shakira — “TQG”
NSYNC Reunited:
NSYNC presented the Best Pop prize ; Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, and Chris Kirkpatrick appeared onstage for the first time since the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.
South Korean boy band Stray Kids, often known as SKZ, was created by JYP Entertainment through the 2017 reality series of the same name ( Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. are the members of the group. Woojin, one of the original nine members, left the group in October 2019 for unspecified personal reasons.
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