1995 MTV Video Music Awards

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1995 MTV Video Music Awards
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DateThursday, September 7, 1995
LocationRadio City Music Hall, New York, New York
CountryUnited States
Hosted byDennis Miller
Most awardsTLC & Weezer (4)
Most nominationsMichael Jackson & Janet Jackson (11)
Television/radio coverage
NetworkMTV

The 1995 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 7, 1995, honoring the best music videos from June 16, 1994, to June 15, 1995. The show was hosted by Dennis Miller at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. David Sandlin was commissioned to design the program catalogue.

TLC and Weezer were the biggest winners of the night, with each taking home four awards. TLC's music video for "Waterfalls" won the two main awards of the night: Viewer's Choice Award and Video of the Year, becoming the first African-American act to win the latter award. Weezer's video for "Buddy Holly" took home the two main technical awards: Best Direction and Breakthrough Video. Meanwhile, the sibling pair of Michael and Janet Jackson was right behind both groups in terms of wins, as their video for "Scream" earned them three moonmen. Also Michael performed for over fifteen minutes to a medley of his main songs at the ceremony.

As mentioned above, TLC's "Waterfalls" won both Video of the Year and Viewer's Choice, becoming the third and last video to accomplish this feat in a single year. Ironically, this occurred on the first year that MTV decided to have different sets of nominees for these categories (as until 1994 the practice had been to have both categories have exactly the same set of nominees). Curiously, though, the award for Breakthrough Video would end up having the same four nominees as Video of the Year in 1995, marking the only time this ever happened in VMA history.

In terms of nominations, the four videos and acts that were up for Video of the Year dominated the night. Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream" was the most nominated video of the night, earning a grand total of eleven nominations, including a nomination in each of the seven professional categories. The night's big winner, TLC's "Waterfalls," was also the second most nominated video that night, earning ten nominations. Green Day's "Basket Case" came in third place with nine nominations, while Weezer's "Buddy Holly" came in fourth with five nominations. There would not be a situation similar to this one at the VMAs until the 2009 edition. In addition, all four videos were nominated for Best Direction. This award show is generally considered to be one of the toughest in terms of Video of the Year.

Nominations[]

Winners are in bold text.

Video of the Year[]

TLC – "Waterfalls"

  • Green Day – "Basket Case"
  • Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream"
  • Weezer – "Buddy Holly"

Best Male Video[]

Tom Petty – "You Don't Know How It Feels"

Best Female Video[]

Madonna – "Take a Bow"

Best Group Video[]

TLC – "Waterfalls"

Best New Artist in a Video[]

Hootie & the Blowfish – "Hold My Hand"

Best Metal/Hard Rock Video[]

White Zombie – "More Human than Human"

Best R&B Video[]

TLC – "Waterfalls"

Best Rap Video[]

Dr. Dre – "Keep Their Heads Ringin'"

Best Dance Video[]

Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream"

Best Alternative Video[]

Weezer – "Buddy Holly"

Best Video from a Film[]

Seal – "Kiss from a Rose" (from Batman Forever)

Breakthrough Video[]

Weezer – "Buddy Holly"

  • Green Day – "Basket Case"
  • Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream"
  • TLC – "Waterfalls"

Best Direction in a Video[]

Weezer – "Buddy Holly" (Director: Spike Jonze)

  • Green Day – "Basket Case" (Director: Mark Kohr)
  • Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream" (Director: Mark Romanek)
  • TLC – "Waterfalls" (Director: F. Gary Gray)

Best Choreography in a Video[]

Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream" (Choreographers: LaVelle Smith Jr., Tina Landon, Travis Payne and Sean Cheesman)

Best Special Effects in a Video[]

The Rolling Stones – "Love Is Strong" (Special Effects: Fred Raimondi)

  • Björk – "Army of Me" (Special Effects: BUF)
  • Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream" (Special Effects: Kevin Tod Haug, Alexander Frisch, Ashley Clemens, Richard 'Dr.' Baily, Jay Johnson and P. Scott Makela)
  • TLC – "Waterfalls" (Special Effects: Peter Conn and Chris Mitchell)

Best Art Direction in a Video[]

Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream" (Art Director: Tom Foden)

  • Madonna – "Take a Bow" (Art Director: Happy Massee)
  • Jill Sobule – "I Kissed a Girl" (Art Director: Kelly Van Patter)
  • TLC – "Waterfalls" (Art Director: Keith Burns)

Best Editing in a Video[]

Weezer – "Buddy Holly" (Editor: Eric Zumbrunnen)

  • Green Day – "Basket Case" (Editor: Alan Chimenti)
  • Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson – "Scream" (Editor: Robert Duffy)
  • Jill Sobule – "I Kissed a Girl" (Editor: Jerry Behrens)
  • TLC – "Waterfalls" (Editor: Jonathan Silver)

Best Cinematography in a Video[]

The Rolling Stones – "Love Is Strong" (Directors of Photography: Garry Waller and Mike Trim)

Viewer's Choice[]

TLC – "Waterfalls"

International Viewer's Choice Awards[]

MTV Asia[]

Denada – "Sambutlah"

MTV Brasil[]

Os Paralamas do Sucesso (featuring Djavan) – "Uma Brasileira"

MTV Europe[]

U2 – "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"

MTV Japan[]

Chage and Aska – "Something There"

MTV Latin America[]

Café Tacuba – "La Ingrata"

MTV Mandarin[]

Faye Wong – "Chess"

Video Vanguard Award[]

R.E.M.

Performances[]

List of musical performances
Artist(s) Song(s)
Pre-show
Silverchair "Tomorrow"/"Pure Massacre"
Main show[1]
Michael Jackson (featuring Slash) Medley
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
"The Way You Make Me Feel"
"Scream"
"Beat It"
"Black or White"
"Billie Jean"
"Dangerous"
"You Are Not Alone"
Live "I Alone"
TLC CrazySexy Medley
"Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg"
"Kick Your Game"
"Creep"
"Waterfalls"
R.E.M. "The Wake-Up Bomb"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Warped"
Bon Jovi "Helter Skelter"
"Something for the Pain" (live from Times Square)
Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"
Hootie & the Blowfish "Only Wanna Be with You"
Hole "Violet"
Green Day "Stuck with Me" (live from Stockholm)
White Zombie "More Human than Human"

Presenters[]

  • Rod Stewart – presented Best Male Video
  • Kennedy – appeared in commercial vignettes about the show
  • Tim Robbins – introduced Live
  • Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes – presented Best Video from a Film
  • Bill Bellamy and Monica Seles – appeared in a pre-commercial vignette about previous Viewer's Choice winners and voting procedures
  • Lenny Kravitz and Sheryl Crow – presented Best New Artist in a Video
  • Chris Hardwick – interviewed New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and First Lady Donna Hanover Giuliani and appeared in vignettes about the show and Viewer's Choice voting
  • The Notorious B.I.G. and Bill Bellamy – presented Best Dance Video
  • Kevin Bacon and Liv Tyler – presented Best Direction in a Video
  • Grant Hill and Ricki Lake – presented Best R&B Video
  • Natalie Merchant – introduced R.E.M.
  • Kennedy and Claire Danes – appeared in a pre-commercial vignette about Viewer's Choice voting
  • Madonna – presented Best Rap Video
  • Mike Tyson – introduced the Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Drew Barrymore – presented the Video Vanguard award
  • Seal and Des'ree (jokingly introduced by Dennis Miller as "Seal Koslowski" and "Desiree Finkelstein") – introduced the International Viewer's Choice Award winners
  • VJs Anu Kottoor (Asia), Cuca Lazarotto (Brasil), Ingo Schmoll (Europe), Keiko Yamada (Japan), Alfredo Lewin (Latin America) and Schutze (Mandarin) – announced their respective region's Viewer's Choice winner
  • George Clooney – presented Best Female Video
  • Bryan Adams – presented Viewer's Choice
  • Dennis Rodman and Christopher Walken – presented Best Alternative Video
  • Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston – presented Video of the Year

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Onishi, Norimitsi (September 8, 1995). "MTV Awards Show Rocks Midtown". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 26, 2015. Retrieved August 30, 2021.

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