page_title: MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: Fall Out Boy at Rockefeller Center performing on NBC's Today Show.
context_page_description: The MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock was first given out in 1989, and it was one of the four original genre categories added to the VMAs that year. In its first year, the award was called Best Heavy Metal Video, and from 1990 to 1995, it was renamed Best Metal/Hard Rock Video. The category underwent a third, brief name change in 1996, when it was renamed Best Hard Rock Video. In 1997, the award acquired its most enduring name, Best Rock Video, which it retained until 2016. The following year, the word "Video" was removed from all genre categories at the VMAs, giving this award its current name: Best Rock.
  Like all other genre categories at the VMAs, this category was retired briefly in 2007, when the VMAs were revamped and most original categories were eliminated. In 2008, though, MTV brought back this award, along with several of the others that were retired in 2007.
  Aerosmith is the biggest winner of this award, with a total of four wins between 1990 and 1998. Fall Out Boy, meanwhile, is the most nominated act in this category, having received nine nominations as of 2020.
caption: 2015 winner Fall Out Boy
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