Best Alternative Video

• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics
• Pearl Jam - Alive Lyrics
• The Soup Dragons - Divine Thing
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away Lyrics

Best Art Direction

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away Lyrics
• Sir Mixalot - Baby Got Back Lyrics
• Rod Stewart - Broken Arrow Lyrics
• Guns 'N Roses - November Rain Lyrics

Best Breakthrough Video

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away Lyrics
• Van Halen - Right Now Lyrics
• David Byrne - She's Mad Lyrics
• Tori Amos - Silent All These Years Lyrics

Best Choreography

• En Vogue - My Lovin' (you're Never Gonna Get It) Lyrics
• Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
• Madonna - Holiday Lyrics
• Hammer - Too Legit To Quit

Best Cinematography

• Guns 'N Roses - November Rain Lyrics
• Metallica - Enter Sandman Lyrics
• Tori Amos - Silent All These Years Lyrics
• Vanessa Williams - Running Back to You Lyrics
• En Vogue - My Lovin' (you're Never Gonna Get It) Lyrics
• Michael Jackson - In The Closet Lyrics
• Genesis - I Can't Dance Lyrics
• Madonna - Holiday Lyrics
• Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away Lyrics
• Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven Lyrics

Best Dance Video

• Prince & The New Power Generation - Cream
• Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
• Madonna - Holiday Lyrics
• En Vogue - My Lovin' (you're Never Gonna Get It) Lyrics

Best Direction

• Van Halen - Right Now Lyrics
• Sir Mixalot - Baby Got Back Lyrics
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away Lyrics
• En Vogue - My Lovin' (you're Never Gonna Get It) Lyrics

Best Editing

• Van Halen - Right Now Lyrics
• Metallica - Enter Sandman Lyrics
• U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing Lyrics
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away Lyrics
• En Vogue - My Lovin' (you're Never Gonna Get It) Lyrics

Best Female Video

• Annie Lennox - Why Lyrics
• Madonna - Holiday Lyrics
• Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last Lyrics
• Tori Amos - Silent All These Years Lyrics

Best Group Video

• U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing Lyrics
• En Vogue - My Lovin' (you're Never Gonna Get It) Lyrics
• Van Halen - Right Now Lyrics
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge Lyrics

Best Heavy Metal / Hard Rock Video

• Metallica - Enter Sandman Lyrics
• Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You Lyrics
• Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked Lyrics
• Van Halen - Right Now Lyrics

Best Male Video

• Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven Lyrics
• John Cougar Mellencamp - Get a Leg Up
• Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch Lyrics
• Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open Lyrics
• Weird Al Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana Lyrics

Best New Artist

• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics
• Tori Amos - Silent All These Years Lyrics
• Cracker - Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)
• Arrested Development - Tennessee Lyrics

Best Rap Video

• Arrested Development - Tennessee Lyrics
• Sir Mixalot - Baby Got Back Lyrics
• Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
• Kris Kross - Jump
• Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours

Best Special Effects

• U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing Lyrics
• Michael Jackson - Black Or White Lyrics
• Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked Lyrics
• David Byrne - She's Mad Lyrics

Best Video from a Film

• Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - Wayne's World
• Hammer - Addams Groove - The Addams Family
• Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven - Rush
• Commitments - Try A Little Tenderness - The Commitments

Video of the Year

• Van Halen - Right Now Lyrics
• Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked Lyrics
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge Lyrics

Viewer's Choice

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge Lyrics
• Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked Lyrics
• Van Halen - Right Now Lyrics
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics