MTV Video Music Award de la meilleure photographie

Ce prix récompense la meilleure photographie (qualité de l'image) de clip de l'année. Voici la liste des gagnants dans cette catégorie aux MTV VMA's depuis 1984.

Année	Artiste	Clip	Directeur de la photographie
1984	The Police	"Every Breath You Take"	Daniel Pearl
1985	Don Henley	"The Boys of Summer"	Pascal Lebeque
1986	a-ha	"The Sun Always Shines On T.V."	Oliver Stapleton
1987	Robbie Nevil	"C'est la vie"	Mark Plummer
1988	Sting	"We'll Be Together"	Bill Pope
1989	Madonna	"Express Yourself"	Mark Plummer
1990	Madonna	"Vogue"	Pascal Lebeque
1991	Chris Isaak	"Wicked Game"	Rolf Kesterman
1992	Guns N' Roses	"November Rain"	Mike Southon and Daniel Pearl
1993	Madonna	"Rain"	Harris Savides
1994	R.E.M.	"Everybody Hurts"	Harris Savides
1995	The Rolling Stones	"Love Is Strong"	Gary Waller and Mike Trim
1996	The Smashing Pumpkins	"Tonight, Tonight"	Decklan Quinn
1997	Jamiroquai	"Virtual Insanity"	Steven Keith-Roach
1998	Fiona Apple	"Criminal"	Harris Savides
1999	Marilyn Manson	"The Dope Show"	Martin Coppen
2000	Macy Gray	"Do Something"	Jeff Cronenweth
2001	Fatboy Slim	"Weapon of Choice"	Lance Acord
2002	Moby	"We Are All Made of Stars"	Brad Rushing
2003	Johnny Cash	"Hurt"	Jean-Yves Scoffier
2004	Jay-Z	"99 Problems"	Joaquin Baca-Asay
2005	Green Day	"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"	Samuel Bayer
2006	James Blunt	"You're Beautiful"	Robbie Ryan
2009	Green Day	"21 Guns"	Jonathan Sela
2010	Jay-Z (avec Alicia Keys)	"Empire State of Mind"	John Perez
2011	Adele	"Rolling in the Deep"	-
2012	M.I.A.	"Bad Girls"	André Chemetoff
2013	Macklemore et Ryan Lewis (feat. Ray Dalton)	"Can't Hold Us"	-
2014	Beyoncé	"Pretty Hurts"	Darren Lew et Jackson Hunt
2015	Flying Lotus (et Kendrick Lamar)	"Never Catch Me"	Larkin Sieple
2016	Beyoncé	"Formation"	Malik Sayeed
2017	Kendrick Lamar	"Humble"	Scott Cunningham
2018	Beyoncé et Jay-Z	"Apeshit"	Benoît Debie
2019	Shawn Mendes feat. Camila Cabello	"Señorita"	Scott Cunningham
2020	Lady Gaga feat. Ariana Grande	"Rain on Me"	Michael Merriman
2021	Beyoncé feat. Blue Ivy Carter, Saint Jhn et Wizkid	"Brown Skin Girl"	Benoit Soler, Malik H. Sayeed, Mohammaed Atta Ahmed, Santiago Gonzalez et Ryan Helfant