2020 VMAs
3 Women Are Nominated For Best Direction at the VMAs And Not One Had a Co-Director: That’s a First!
This is a much more vibrant outlook for female directors than at the Oscars, where two women have never been nominated for best director in the same year. Three women are nominated for best direction at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, which will be presented on Aug. 30 — Taylor Swift for “The Man,” Billie Eilish for “xanny” and Hannah Lux Davis for Doja Cat’s “Say So.” It’s only the second time in the VMAs’ 37-year history that three women have been nominated in this category in the same year—and it’s the first time it’s happened where none of the female directors had a male co-director. Female directors had three of the five nominees in this category in 2005, but only Floria Sigismondi was nominated for a clip she directed by herself—The White Stripes’ “Blue Orchid.” The other t...
