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Taylor Swift's been nominated for quite a few MTV Video Music Awards

  • July 21, 2015
  • Brad O'Mance

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The MTV VMA nom­in­a­tions have just been announced and it's good news for Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and rising star, Beyoncé.

Swifto has a total of eight nom­in­a­tions including Video Of The Year (for 'Bad Blood' (!!)), Best Female Video and Best Pop Video (the latter two both for 'Blank Space').

Beyoncé also appears in all three of those cat­egor­ies for the messy hotel nightmare '7/11', and has five nom­in­a­tions in total.

As far as the men are concerned, Ed Sheeran's 'up for' six awards including all the ones mentioned above and some technical ones. Oh and he'll have to try and beat off Mark Ronson and Nick Jonas for Best Male Video.

Here's the full list of nominees (copied and pasted from two different sites hence the weird format­ting, but what can you do?):

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé – “7/11”
Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood”
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”

BEST MALE VIDEO
Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”
The Weeknd – “Earned It”
Nick Jonas – “Chains”

BEST FEMALE VIDEO
Beyoncé – “7/11”
Taylor Swift – “Blank Space”
Nicki Minaj – “Anaconda”
Sia – “Elastic Heart”
Ellie Goulding – “Love Me Like You Do”

BEST HIP HOP VIDEO
Fetty Wap – “Trap Queen”
Nicki Minaj – “Anaconda”
Kendrick Lamar – “Alright”
Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth – “See You Again”
Big Sean ft. E‑40 – “IDFWU”

BEST POP VIDEO
Beyoncé – “7/11”
Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
Taylor Swift – “Blank Space”
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Maroon 5 – “Sugar”

BEST ROCK VIDEO
Hozier – “Take Me To Church”
Fall Out Boy – “Uma Thurman”
Florence + the Machine – “Ship To Wreck”
Walk the Moon – “Shut Up and Dance”
Arctic Monkeys – “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?

ARTIST TO WATCH presented by Taco Bell®
Fetty Wap – “Trap Queen”
Vance Joy – “Riptide”
George Ezra – “Budapest”
James Bay – “Hold Back The River”
FKA Twigs – “Pendulum”

BEST ART DIRECTION

Taylor Swift f/ Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" (Charles Infante, art dir.)
Snoop Dogg "So Many Pros" (Jason Fijal, art dir.)
Jack White "Would You Fight For My Love?" (Jeff Peterson, art dir.)
The Chemical Brothers "Go" (Michel Gondry, art dir.)
Skrillex & Diplo w/ Justin Bieber "Where Are U Now" (Brewer, art dir.)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Beyonce "7/11" (Beyoncé, Chris Grant, cho­reo­graph­ers; Additional cho­reo­graphy: Gabriel Valenciano")
OK Go "I Won't Let You Down" (OK Go, air:man, Mori Harano, choreographers)
Chet Faker "Gold" (Ryan Heffington, choreographer)
Ed Sheeran "Don't" (Nappy Tabs, choreographer)
Flying Lotus f/ Kendrick Lamar "Never Catch Me" (Keone, Mari Madrid, dir.)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Flying Lotus f/ Kendrick Lamar "Never Catch Me" (Larkin Seiple, DP)
Ed Sheeran "Thinking Out Loud" (Daniel Pearl, DP)
Taylor Swift f/ Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" (Christopher Probst, DP)
FKA Twigs "Two Weeks" (Justin Brown, DP)
Alt‑J "Left Hand Free" (Mike Simpson, DP)

BEST DIRECTION

Taylor Swift f/ Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" (Joseph Kahn, dir.)
Mark Ronson f/ Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk" (Bruno Mars & Cameron Duddy, dir.)
Kendrick Lamar "Alright" (Colin Tilley & The Little Homies, dir.)
Hozier "Take Me To Church" (Brendan Canty & Conal Thomson of Feel Good Lost, dir.)
Childish Gambino "Sober" (Hiro Murai, dir.)

BEST EDITING

Beyonce "7/11" (Beyoncé, Ed Burke, Jonathan Wing, editors)
Ed Sheeran "Don't" (Jacquelyn London, editor)
Taylor Swift f/ Kendrick Lamar "Bad Blood" (Chancler Haynes @ Cosmo Street, editor)
A$AP Rocky "L$D" (Dexter Navy, editor)
Skrillex & Diplo w/ Justin Bieber "Where Are U Now" (Brewer, editor)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Taylor Swift "Bad Blood" (Ingenuity Studios, vfx)
FKA Twigs "Two Weeks" (Gloria FX, Tomash Kuzmytskyi, & Max Chyzhevskyy, vfx)
Childish Gambino "Telegraph Ave" (Gloria FX, vfx)
Skrillex & Diplo w/ Justin Bieber "Where Are U Now" (Brewer, vfx)
Tyler, The Creator "F*cking Young/Death Camp" (Gloria FX, vfx)

The awards take place on August 30 and will be hosted by Miley Cyrus. Blimey.

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