The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards was held on August 27^th, 2017 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, honoring music videos that were released between June 25^th, 2016 and June 23^rd, 2017, which was hosted by Katy Perry. The 34^th annual award show aired live from the Venue for the second time in its history. The music video for Taylor Swift’s new song, “Look What You Made Me Do” premiered during the broadcast, Lil Yachty co-hosted the pre-show with Terrence J, Charlamagne Tha God, and MTV News’ Gaby Wilson. It was broadcasted across carious Viacom networks and their related apps. The list of nominations had been revealed on July 25, 2017.

MTV continued to eliminate gender-specific awards categories, as they did at the 2017 MTV Movie and TV Awards. The Best Female and Best Male Video awards were replaced with one category, The Artist of The Year. Kendrick Lamar leads the list of nominees with different categories. Katy Perry, The Weeknd, and DJ Khaled received the second most with five. Nominees for the Song of The Summer category were announced on August 22^nd, 2017.

Here are the winners:

Video of The Year: Kendrick Lamar – “Humble”

Artist of The Year: Ed Sheeran

Best New Artist: Khalid

Best Collaboration: Zayn & Taylor Swift – “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”

Best Pop: Fifth Harmony (ft. Gucci Mane) – “Down”

Best Hip-Hop: Kendrick Lamar – “Humble”

Best Dance: Zedd & Alessia Cara – “Stay”

Best Rock: Twenty One Pilots – “Heavydirtysoul”

Best Fight Against The System: Alessia Cara – “Scars to Your Beautiful”

Logic (Ft. Damian Lemar Hudson) – “Black Spiderman”

The Hamilton Mixtape – “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)”

Big Sean – “Light”

Taboo (Ft. Shailene Woodley) – “Stand Up / Stand N Rock #NoDAPL”

John Legend – “Surefire”

Best Cinematography: Kendrick Lamar – “Humble” (Director of Photography: Scott Cunningham)

Best Direction: Kendrick Lamar – “Humble” (Directors: Dave Meyers and The Little Homies)

Best Art Direction: Kendrick Lamar – “Humble” (Art Director: Spencer Graves)

Best Visual Effects: Kendrick Lamar – “Humble” (Visual Effects: Jonah Hall of Timber)

Best Choreography: Kanye West – “Fade” (Choreographers: Teyana Taylor, Guapo, Matthew Pasterisa, Jae Blaze, & Derek Watkins)

Best Editing: Young Thug – “Wyclef Jean” (Editors: Ryan Staake & Eric Degliomini)

Song of the Summer: Lil Uzi Vert – “XO Tour Llif3”

Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award: Pink

              Kendrick Lamar                                              Alessia Cara