Best Direction of a Video
- Beyonce - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"
- Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester - "Good Girls Go Bad"
- Green Day - "21 Guns"
- Lady GaGa - "Paparazzi"
- Britney Spears - "Circus"
Best Choreography in a Video
- Beyonce - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"
- Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake - "Love Sex Magic"
- Kristinia DeBarge - "Goodbye"
- A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger - "Jai Ho!"
- Britney Spears - "Circus"
Best Special Effects in a Video
- Beyonce - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"
- Eminem - "We Made You"
- Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
- Lady GaGa - "Paparazzi"
- Kanye West featuring Mr. Hudson - "Paranoid"
Best Art Direction in a Video
- Beyonce - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"
- Coldplay - "Viva La Vida"
- Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
- Lady GaGa - "Paparazzi"
- Britney Spears - "Circus"
Best Editing in a Video
- Beyonce - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"
- Coldplay - "Viva la Vida"
- Miley Cyrus - "7 Things"
- Lady GaGa - "Paparazzi"
- Britney Spears - "Circus"
Best Cinematography in a Video
- Beyonce - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"
- Coldplay - "Viva la Vida"
- Green Day - "21 Guns"
- Lady GaGa - "Paparazzi"
- Britney Spears - "Circus"
Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman)
- Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
- Björk - "Human Behavior"
- Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Dogg) - "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang"
- Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
- George Michael - "Freedom '90"
- OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"
- Tom Petty - "Into the Great Wide Open"
- Radiohead - "Karma Police"
- David Lee Roth - "California Girls"
- U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name"
