MTV Video Music Award untuk Video Rock Terbaik

MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock
Diberikan kepada	Video musik rock
Negara	Amerika Serikat
Dipersembahkan oleh	MTV
Diberikan perdana	1989
Pemegang gelar saat ini	Lenny Kravitz — "Human" (2024)
Penghargaan terbanyak	Aerosmith (4)
Nominasi terbanyak	Foo Fighters (10)
Situs web	Situs VMA

MTV Video Music Award untuk Rock Terbaik pertama kali diberikan pada tahun 1989, salah satu dari empat kategori genre asli ditambahkan ke VMA tahun itu. Pada tahun pertamanya, kategori ini disebut Video Heavy Metal Terbaik, dan dari tahun 1990 hingga 1995, namanya diubah menjadi Video Metal/Hard Rock Terbaik. Kategori ini mengalami perubahan nama singkat ketiga pada tahun 1996, ketika namanya diubah menjadi Video Hard Rock Terbaik. Pada tahun 1997, kategori ini memperoleh namanya yang paling bertahan lama, Video Rock Terbaik, yang dipertahankan hingga tahun 2016. Tahun berikutnya, kata "Video" dihapus dari semua kategori genre di VMA (meskipun nominasi masih berlaku untuk video tertentu), memberikan kategori ini dengan namanya saat ini: Best Rock.

Seperti semua kategori genre lainnya di VMA, kategori ini dihentikan sebentar pada tahun 2007, ketika VMA diubah dan sebagian besar kategori orisinal dihilangkan. Namun pada tahun 2008, MTV mengembalikan kategori ini, bersama dengan beberapa penghargaan lainnya yang telah pensiun pada tahun 2007.

Aerosmith adalah pemenang paling sering dari kategori ini, dengan total empat kemenangan antara tahun 1990 hingga 1998. Foo Fighters adalah artis yang paling banyak dinominasikan dalam kategori ini, setelah menerima sepuluh nominasi hingga pada tahun 2023. Pada tahun 1995, bassis White Zombie, Sean Yseult menjadi wanita pertama yang memenangkan penghargaan ini, sedangkan pada tahun 2014, penyanyi Selandia Baru, Lorde menjadi artis solo wanita pertama yang memenangkan kategori yang didominasi pria ini.

Penerima

Tahun	Pemenang	Nominasi	Ref.
1989	Guns N' Roses — "Sweet Child O'Mine"	Aerosmith — "Rag Doll" Def Leppard — "Pour Some Sugar on Me" Metallica — "One"
1990	Aerosmith — "Janie's Got a Gun"	Faith No More — "Epic" Mötley Crüe — "Kickstart My Heart" Slaughter — "Up All Night"
1991	Aerosmith — "The Other Side"	AC/DC — "Thunderstruck" Alice in Chains — "Man in the Box" The Black Crowes — "She Talks to Angels" Faith No More — "Falling to Pieces" Guns N' Roses — "You Could Be Mine" Queensrÿche — "Silent Lucidity" Warrant — "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
1992	Metallica — "Enter Sandman"	Def Leppard — "Let's Get Rocked" Ugly Kid Joe — "Everything About You" Van Halen — "Right Now"
1993	Pearl Jam — "Jeremy"	Aerosmith — "Livin' on the Edge" Helmet — "Unsung" Nine Inch Nails — "Wish"
1994	Soundgarden — "Black Hole Sun"	Aerosmith — "Cryin'" Anthrax — "Black Lodge" Rollins Band — "Liar"
1995	White Zombie — "More Human than Human"	Green Day — "Basket Case" Meat Puppets — "We Don't Exist" Stone Temple Pilots — "Interstate Love Song"
1996	Metallica — "Until It Sleeps"	Alice in Chains — "Again" Marilyn Manson — "Sweet Dreams" Rage Against the Machine — "Bulls on Parade"
1997	Aerosmith — "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)"	Foo Fighters — "Monkey Wrench" Marilyn Manson — "The Beautiful People" Dave Matthews Band — "Crash into Me" Rage Against the Machine — "People of the Sun"
1998	Aerosmith — "Pink"	Foo Fighters — "Everlong" Dave Matthews Band — "Don't Drink the Water" Metallica — "The Unforgiven II"
1999	Korn — "Freak on a Leash"	Kid Rock — "Bawitdaba" Lenny Kravitz — "Fly Away" Limp Bizkit — "Nookie" The Offspring — "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"
2000	Limp Bizkit — "Break Stuff"	Creed — "Higher" Kid Rock — "Cowboy" Korn — "Falling Away from Me" Metallica — "I Disappear" Rage Against the Machine — "Sleep Now in the Fire"
2001	Limp Bizkit — "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)"	Aerosmith — "Jaded" Linkin Park — "Crawling" Staind — "It's Been Awhile" Weezer — "Hash Pipe"
2002	Linkin Park — "In the End"	Creed — "My Sacrifice" Jimmy Eat World — "The Middle" Korn — "Here to Stay" P.O.D. — "Youth of the Nation" System of a Down — "Chop Suey!"
2003	Linkin Park — "Somewhere I Belong"	Evanescence (featuring Paul McCoy) — "Bring Me to Life" Good Charlotte — "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" Metallica — "St. Anger" The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"
2004	Jet — "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"	The Darkness — "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" Evanescence — "My Immortal" Hoobastank — "The Reason" Linkin Park — "Breaking the Habit"
2005	Green Day — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"	Foo Fighters — "Best of You" The Killers — "Mr. Brightside" My Chemical Romance — "Helena" Weezer — "Beverly Hills"
2006	AFI — "Miss Murder"	Green Day — "Wake Me Up When September Ends" Panic! at the Disco — "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" Red Hot Chili Peppers — "Dani California" Thirty Seconds to Mars — "The Kill"
2007	Tidak ada penghargaan yang diberikan
2008	Linkin Park — "Shadow of the Day"	Fall Out Boy (featuring John Mayer) — "Beat It" Foo Fighters — "The Pretender" Paramore — "Crushcrushcrush" Slipknot — "Psychosocial"
2009	Green Day — "21 Guns"	Coldplay — "Viva la Vida" Fall Out Boy — "I Don't Care" Kings of Leon — "Use Somebody" Paramore — "Decode"
2010	Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Kings and Queens"	Florence + the Machine — "Dog Days Are Over" MGMT — "Flash Delirium" Muse — "Uprising" Paramore — "Ignorance"
2011	Foo Fighters — "Walk"	The Black Keys — "Howlin' for You" Cage the Elephant — "Shake Me Down" Foster the People — "Pumped Up Kicks" Mumford & Sons — "The Cave"
2012	Coldplay — "Paradise"	The Black Keys — "Lonely Boy" Imagine Dragons — "It's Time" Linkin Park — "Burn It Down" Jack White — "Sixteen Saltines"
2013	Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Up in the Air"	Fall Out Boy — "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" Imagine Dragons — "Radioactive" Mumford & Sons — "I Will Wait" Vampire Weekend — "Diane Young"
2014	Lorde — "Royals"	Arctic Monkeys — "Do I Wanna Know?" The Black Keys — "Fever" Imagine Dragons — "Demons" Linkin Park — "Until It's Gone"
2015	Fall Out Boy — "Uma Thurman"	Arctic Monkeys — "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" Florence + the Machine — "Ship to Wreck" Hozier — "Take Me to Church" Walk the Moon — "Shut Up and Dance"
2016	Twenty One Pilots — "Heathens"	All Time Low — "Missing You" Coldplay — "Adventure of a Lifetime" Fall Out Boy (featuring Demi Lovato) — "Irresistible" Panic! at the Disco — "Victorious"
2017	Twenty One Pilots — "Heavydirtysoul"	Coldplay — "A Head Full of Dreams" Fall Out Boy — "Young and Menace" Foo Fighters — "Run" Green Day — "Bang Bang"
2018	Imagine Dragons — "Whatever It Takes"	Fall Out Boy — "Champion" Foo Fighters — "The Sky Is a Neighborhood" Linkin Park — "One More Light" Panic! at the Disco — "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" Thirty Seconds to Mars — "Walk on Water"
2019	Panic! at the Disco — "High Hopes"	The 1975 — "Love It If We Made It" Fall Out Boy — "Bishops Knife Trick" Imagine Dragons — "Natural" Lenny Kravitz — "Low" Twenty One Pilots — "My Blood"
2020	Coldplay — "Orphans"	blink-182 — "Happy Days" Evanescence — "Wasted on You" Fall Out Boy (featuring Wyclef Jean) — "Dear Future Self (Hands Up)" Green Day — "Oh Yeah!" The Killers — "Caution"
2021	John Mayer — "Last Train Home"	Evanescence — "Use My Voice" Foo Fighters — "Shame Shame" The Killers — "My Own Soul's Warning" Kings of Leon — "The Bandit" Lenny Kravitz — "Raise Vibration"
2022	Red Hot Chili Peppers — "Black Summer"	Foo Fighters — "Love Dies Young" Muse — "Won't Stand Down" Shinedown — "Planet Zero" Three Days Grace — "So Called Life" Jack White — "Taking Me Back"
2023	Måneskin – "The Loneliest"	Foo Fighters – "The Teacher" Linkin Park – "Lost" Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Tippa My Tongue" Metallica – "Lux Æterna" Muse – "You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween"
2024	Lenny Kravitz – "Human"	Bon Jovi – "Legendary" Coldplay – "Feels Like I'm Falling in Love" Green Day – "Dilemma" Kings of Leon – "Mustang" U2 – "Atomic City"