1996 MTV Video Music Awards

The 1996 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 4, 1996, honoring the best music videos from June 16, 1995 to June 14, 1996. The show was hosted by Dennis Miller at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Highlights of the show included a short-lived reunion of the four original members of Van Halen, who had not appeared together for more than a decade, presenting the award for Best Male Video and a live interlink with astronauts on the Mir space station. The show also marked Tupac Shakur's final public appearance before being shot on September 7.

The Smashing Pumpkins led the pack with nine nominations and seven wins.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Video of the Year

• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads"
• Foo Fighters — "Big Me"
• Alanis Morissette — "Ironic"
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight"

Best Male Video

• Bryan Adams — "The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You"
• Beck — "Where It's At"
• Coolio — "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)"
• R. Kelly (featuring Ernie Isley and Ronald Isley) — "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)"
• Seal — "Don't Cry"

Best Female Video

• Björk — "It's Oh So Quiet"
• Tracy Chapman — "Give Me One Reason"
• Jewel — "Who Will Save Your Soul"
• Alanis Morissette — "Ironic"

Best Group Video

• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads"
• Foo Fighters — "Big Me"
• The Fugees — "Killing Me Softly"
• Hootie & the Blowfish — "Only Wanna Be with You"

Best New Artist in a Video

• Tracy Bonham — "Mother Mother"
• Garbage — "Stupid Girl"
• Jewel — "Who Will Save Your Soul"
• Alanis Morissette — "Ironic"

Best Hard Rock Video

• Alice in Chains — "Again"
• Marilyn Manson — "Sweet Dreams"
• Metallica — "Until It Sleeps"
• Rage Against the Machine — "Bulls on Parade"

Best R&B Video

• Toni Braxton — "You're Makin' Me High"
• Mariah Carey (featuring Boyz II Men) — "One Sweet Day"
• D'Angelo — "Brown Sugar"
• The Fugees — "Killing Me Softly"

Best Rap Video

• 2Pac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) — "California Love"
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads"
• Coolio (featuring L.V.) — "Gangsta's Paradise"
• LL Cool J — "Doin It"

Best Dance Video

• Coolio — "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)"
• Everything but the Girl — "Missing"
• La Bouche — "Be My Lover"
• George Michael — "Fastlove"

Best Alternative Video

• Bush — "Glycerine"
• Everclear — "Santa Monica"
• Foo Fighters — "Big Me"
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "1979"

Best Video from a Film

• Brandy — "Sittin' Up in My Room" (from Waiting to Exhale)
• Bush — "Machinehead" (from Fear)
• Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. — "Theme from Mission: Impossible" (from Mission: Impossible)
• Coolio (featuring L.V.) — "Gangsta's Paradise" (from Dangerous Minds)

Breakthrough Video

• Björk — "It's Oh So Quiet"
• Busta Rhymes — "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check"
• Foo Fighters — "Big Me"
• Garbage — "Queer"
• Radiohead — "Just"
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight"

Best Direction in a Video

• Björk — "It's Oh So Quiet" (Director: Spike Jonze)
• Foo Fighters — "Big Me" (Director: Jesse Peretz)
• Alanis Morissette — "Ironic" (Director: Stéphane Sednaoui)
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight" (Directors: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)

Best Choreography in a Video

• Björk — "It's Oh So Quiet" (Choreographer: Michael Rooney)
• Janet Jackson — "Runaway" (Choreographer: Tina Landon)
• George Michael — "Fastlove" (Choreographers: Vaughan and Anthea)
• Quad City DJ's — "C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)" (Choreographers: Quad City DJ's)

Best Special Effects in a Video

• The Beatles — "Free as a Bird" (Special Effects: Johnny Senered, Kristen Johnson and Ben Gibbs)
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads" (Special Effects: Cameron Noble)
• Green Day — "Walking Contradiction" (Special Effects: Jefferson Wagner and Brian Boles)
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight" (Special Effects: Chris Staves)

Best Art Direction in a Video

• Björk — "It's Oh So Quiet" (Art Director: Teri Whitaker)
• The Cranberries — "Salvation" (Art Director: William Abelo)
• R.E.M. — "Tongue" (Art Director: Clam Lynch)
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight" (Art Directors: K. K. Barrett and Wayne White)

Best Editing in a Video

• Beck — "Where It's At" (Editor: Eric Zumbrunnen)
• Alanis Morissette — "Ironic" (Editor: Scott Grey)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers — "Warped" (Editor: Hal Honigsberg)
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight" (Editor: Eric Zumbrunnen)

Best Cinematography in a Video

• Brandy (featuring Wanya Morris) — "Brokenhearted" (Director of Photography: Martin Coppen)
• Eric Clapton — "Change the World" (Directors of Photography: Peter Nydrle and Marco Mazzi)
• Madonna — "You'll See" (Director of Photography: Adrian Wilde)
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight" (Director of Photography: Declan Quinn)

Viewer's Choice

• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads"
• Bush — "Glycerine"
• Coolio (featuring L.V.) — "Gangsta's Paradise"
• Metallica — "Until It Sleeps"
• Alanis Morissette — "Ironic"
• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight"

International Viewer's Choice Awards

MTV Asia

• Dewa 19 — "Cukup Siti Nurbaya"
• IE — "Chan Tang Jai"
• Put3Ska — "Manila Girl"
• Seo TaiJi & Boys — "Come Back Home"

MTV Brasil

• Barão Vermelho — "Vem Quente Que Eu Estou Fervendo"
• Raimundos — "Eu Quero Ver o Oco"
• Renato Russo — "Strani Amori"
• Sepultura — "Roots Bloody Roots"
• Skank — "Garota Nacional"

MTV Europe

• Björk — "It's Oh So Quiet"
• Die Fantastischen Vier — "Sie Est Weg"
• Jovanotti — "L'Ombelico del Mondo"
• George Michael — "Fastlove"
• Pulp — "Disco 2000"

MTV India

• Asha Bhosle — "Piya Tu Ab To Aaja"
• Biddu — "Boom Boom"
• Colonial Cousins — "Sa Ni Dha Pa"
• Indus Creed — "Sleep"
• Shaan and Style Bhai — "Roop Tera Mastana"

MTV Japan

• Ken Ishii — "Extra"
• Toshi Kubota — "Funk It Up"
• Kuroyume — "Pistol"
• The Mad Capsule Markets — "Walk!"
• Seiko — "Let's Talk About It"

MTV Latin America

• Los Fabulosos Cadillacs — "Mal Bicho"
• Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas — "Abarajame"
• Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del 5to. Patio — "Don Palabras"
• Eros Ramazzotti — "La Cosa Más Bella"
• Soda Stereo — "Ella Usó Mi Cabeza Como un Revólver"

MTV Mandarin

• Dou Wei — "Outside the Window"
• Andy Lau — "Truly Forever"
• Eric Moo — "Love Is So Heavy"
• Nana Tang — "Freedom"
• Regina Tseng — "From Dark to Light"

Video Vanguard Award

• Not presented this year

Performances

Pre-show

• No Doubt — "Spiderwebs"/"Just a Girl" ^[1]
• Beck — "Where It's At" ^[2]

Main show

• The Smashing Pumpkins — "Tonight, Tonight"
• The Fugees (featuring Nas) — "Fugee-La, Killing Me Softly, Ready Or Not & If I Ruled the World Medley"
• Metallica — "Until it Sleeps"
• LL Cool J — "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"/"Doin It"
• Neil Young — "The Needle and the Damage Done"
• Hootie & the Blowfish — "Sad Caper"
• Alanis Morissette — "Your House"
• Bush — "Machinehead"
• The Cranberries — "Salvation"
• Oasis — "Champagne Supernova"
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony — "Tha Crossroads"
• Kiss — "Rock and Roll All Nite" (live from beneath the Brooklyn Bridge)

Appearances

• 2Pac
• Aerosmith
• Kevin Bacon
• Beck
• Toni Braxton
• Ewen Bremner
• Busta Rhymes
• Coolio
• Foo Fighters
• Janeane Garofalo
• Darrell Hammond
• Jesse Helms
• Hole
• Suge Knight
• Mike Judge
• Jay Leno
• Jenny McCarthy
• Ewan McGregor
• John Melendez
• No Doubt
• The Notorious B.I.G.
• Rosie O'Donnell
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Dennis Rodman
• Susan Sarandon
• Snoop Dogg
• Sharon Stone
• Tim Robbins
• Van Halen
• Damon Wayans

External links

• Official MTV site

References

1. ^ "YouTube - No Doubt - Just A Girl 1996 VMA Preshow". Archived from the original on 2009-07-31. http://www.webcitation.org/5ignAPEYc. Retrieved 2009-07-29. 
2. ^ http://www.mtv.com/bands/r/red_carpet/NewsFeature_081701/feature.jhtml