List of nominees. Winners are highlighted.
Show host(s): Arsenio Hall

Category	Artist	Video	Director
unknown category	Paula Abdul	Opposites attract [winner]	Candace Reckinger & Michael Patterson
	Madonna	Vogue [winner]	David Fincher
	MC Hammer	U can't touch this [winner]	Rupert Wainwright
	Midnight Oil	Blue sky mine [version 1]	Claudia Castle
	Mötley Crüe	Kickstart my heart	Wayne Isham
	Alannah Myles	Black velvet	Doug Freel
	Sinead O'Connor	Nothing compares 2 U [winner]	John Maybury
	Michael Penn	No myth [winner]	Mark Lindquist
	Prince	Batdance	Al Magnoli
	the Red Hot Chili Peppers	Higher ground	Drew Carolan & Bill Stobaugh
	Michelle Shocked	On the greener side	(director unknown)
	Slaughter	Up all night	Michael Bay
	Lisa Stansfield	All around the world	Philippe Gautier
	Tears For Fears	Sowing the seeds of love [winner]	Jim Blashfield
	Titas	Flores	(director unknown)
	Young MC	Principal's office	Tamra Davis
	Kome Kome Club	Funk Fujiyama	(director unknown)
	Billy Joel	We didn't start the fire	Chris Blum
	Aerosmith	Janie's got a gun [winner]	David Fincher
	the B-52's	Love shack [winner]	Adam Bernstein
	Biz Markie	Just a friend	Lionel C. Martin
	the Black Crowes	Jealous again [live]	(director unknown)
	Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians	A hard rain's gonna fall	(director unknown)
	Jane Child	Don't want to fall in love again	Gary Goetzman
	the Creeps	Ooh I like it	(director unknown)
	Depeche Mode	Personal Jesus	Anton Corbijn
	Bell Biv DeVoe	Poison	(director unknown)
	Digital Underground	The humpty dance	(director unknown)
	Gloria Estefan	Oye mi canto (hear my voice)	Paula Walker
	Faith No More	Epic	Ralph Ziman
	Don Henley	The end of the innocence [winner]	David Fincher
	Billy Idol	Cradle of love [winner]	David Fincher
	Janet Jackson	Rhythm Nation [winner]	Dominic Sena
	ZZ Top	DoubleBack	(director unknown)
Best new artist	Lenny Kravitz	Let love rule [version 2]	Jim Gable