MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects is a craft award given to the artist, the artist's manager, and the visual effects artists and/or visual effects company of the music video. From 1984 to 2006, the award's full name was Best Special Effects in a Video, and after a brief removal in 2007, its name was shortened to Best Special Effects between 2008 and 2011. In 2012, the category acquired its current name.

MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects
Awarded forVisual effects
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First awarded1984
Last awarded2020
Currently held byEIGHTY4 and Mathematic - "Physical" by Dua Lipa (2020)
WebsiteVMA website

The biggest winners are director Jim Blashfield, special effects artist Sean Broughton, executive producer Loris Paillier and production company GloriaFX, with two wins each. In terms of nominations, GloriaFX and Ingennuity Studios (formerly Ingenuity Engine) are also the biggest nominees in the award's history, each receiving a total of six nominations. Closely following are special effects supervisors David Yardley and Fred Raimondi, as well as the company Pixel Envy (headed by the Brothers Strause) and BUF, with four nominations apiece.

The performer whose videos have won the most awards is Peter Gabriel, garnering three Moonmen. Meanwhile, Missy Elliott's videos have received the most nominations with six.

No performer has won a Moonman in this category for working on their video's effects. However, David Byrne from Talking Heads ("Burning Down the House") and Adam Jones from Tool ("Prison Sex") have been nominated for doing such work.

Recipients
Year Winner(s) Work Performer(s) Nominees Ref.
1984 Godley & Creme "Rockit" Herbie Hancock
[1]
1985 Tony Mitchell, Kathy Dougherty and Peter Cohen "Don't Come Around Here No More" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
[2]
1986 Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger "Take On Me" a-ha
[3]
1987 Peter Lord "Sledgehammer" Peter Gabriel
[4]
1988 Jim Francis and Dave Barton "Hourglass" Squeeze
[5]
1989 Jim Blashfield "Leave Me Alone" Michael Jackson
[6]
1990 Jim Blashfield "Sowing the Seeds of Love" Tears for Fears
[7]
1991 David Faithfull and Ralph Ziman "Falling to Pieces" Faith No More
[8]
1992 Simon Taylor "Even Better Than the Real Thing" U2
[9]
1993 Real World Productions and Colossal Pictures "Steam" Peter Gabriel
[10]
1994 Brett Leonard and Angel Studios "Kiss That Frog" Peter Gabriel
[11]
1995 Fred Raimondi "Love Is Strong" The Rolling Stones
[12]
1996 Chris Staves "Tonight, Tonight" The Smashing Pumpkins
[13]
1997 Jonathan Glazer and Sean Broughton "Virtual Insanity" Jamiroquai
[14]
1998 Steve Murgatroyd, Dan Williams, Steve Hiam and Anthony Walsham "Frozen" Madonna
[15]
1999 Sean Broughton, Stuart D. Gordon and Paul Simpson of Digital Domain "Special" Garbage
[16]
2000 Glassworks "All Is Full of Love" Björk
[17]
2001 Carter White FX, Audio Motion and Clear Post Production "Rock DJ" Robbie Williams
[18]
2002 Sebastian Fau and Twisted Labs "Fell in Love with a Girl" The White Stripes
[19]
2003 Nigel Sarrag "Go with the Flow" Queens of the Stone Age
[20]
2004 Elad Offer, Chris Eckardt and Money Shots "Hey Ya!" OutKast
[21]
2005 Passion Pictures "Feel Good Inc." Gorillaz
[22]
2006 Louis Mackall and Tonia Wallander "We Run This" Missy Elliott
[23]
2007 — — — —
2008 SoMe and Jonas & François "Good Life" Kanye West (featuring T-Pain)
[24]
2009 Chimney Pot "Paparazzi" Lady Gaga
[25]
2010 Humble and Sam Stephens "Uprising" Muse
[26]
2011 Jeff Dotson for Dot & Effects "E.T." Katy Perry (featuring Kanye West)
[27]
2012 Deka Brothers and Tony "Truand" Datis "First of the Year (Equinox)" Skrillex
[28]
2013 Grady Hall, Jonathan Wu and Derek Johnson "Safe and Sound" Capital Cities
[29]
2014 1stAveMachine "The Writing's on the Wall" OK Go
[30]
2015 Brewer, GloriaFX, Tomash Kuzmytskyi and Max Chyzhevskyy "Where Are U Now" Skrillex and Diplo (featuring Justin Bieber)
[31]
2016 Vania Heymann and GloriaFX "Up&Up" Coldplay
2017 Jonah Hall of Timber "HUMBLE." Kendrick Lamar
2018 Loris Paillier at BUF Paris "All the Stars" Kendrick Lamar and SZA
2019 Loris Paillier and Lucas Salton for BUF VFX "ME!" Taylor Swift (featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco)
2020 EIGHTY4 and Mathematic "Physical" Dua Lipa
[32]

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