Music’s biggest party! Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Olivia RodrigoThe 2022 MTV Video Music Awards will feature more fan-favorite artists.
LL Cool J, Nicki MinajAnd Jack HarlowThe ceremony will be hosted by the Prudential Center in Newark (New Jersey) on Sunday, 28 August. Along with emceeing the event, the “Starships” rapper, 39, will be honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
“Nicki has broken barriers for women in hip-hop with her versatility and creative artistry,” Bruce GillmerParamount+ president of music, music talent and programming, said in a statement before the awards show. “She has shifted the music industry and cemented her status as a global superstar with her crossover appeal, genre-defying style and continuing to be unapologetically ‘Nicki.’”
Minaj celebrated her achievement via social media. “I’m receiving the Video Vanguard Award at the 2022 #VMAs!” she wrote via Instagram after the news was announced. “You DO NOT !!!! I REPEAT !!!! You do NOTTTTTT want to miss my performance.”
Harlow, 24 years old, is also expected to have a huge night. The “First Class” rapper is tied with Styles, 28, for the highest number of nominations at the 2022 ceremony. Each musician has eight chances at the Moon Person trophy. The artists will compete in the Artist of Year category. Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, The WeekndSwift, 32 years old, follows closely with five nominations each.
The “Fearless” songstress, who dropped her new and improved version of 2012’s RedLast year, had the chance to win Best Longform video, Best Direction, and Best Cinematography. All Too Well: The Short Film. The video was shown with the 10-minute version the popular breakup song. Sadie SinkAnd Dylan O’BrienAs a couple whose relationship eventually ends in disarray.
“There is one very tense scene between the two of them — they were so electric and [improvising] a lot of what they were doing that we just couldn’t take the camera off them, we couldn’t cut, we couldn’t edit,” Swift told Jimmy FallonIn November 2021, the director of the It’s not okayActor, 30 and the Stranger Things star, 20. “So there’s a very long one-take, one-camera shot that lasts for a very long time, and when you’re watching it you don’t note that; you don’t realize that because they are so magnetic.”
Swift’s 15-minute film is also in the running for Video of the Year, which she most recently won in 2019 for “You Need to Calm Down.” She previously scored the honor in 2015 for her “Bad Blood” video.
Scroll down for the complete list of 2022 MTV VMAs nominees — and look for the bold names to see who won:
