MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Moment

The MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Moment is an award presented to singers/groups for quality songs in films at the MTV Movie Awards, a ceremony established in 1992. Honors in several categories are awarded by MTV at the annual ceremonies, and are chosen by public votes.^[1]

MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Moment
Awarded for	Quality songs
Country	United States
Presented by	MTV
First awarded	1992
Website	www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/

The MTV Movie Award for Best Song From a Movie was first given out in 1992 for Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do I Do It For You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The award was last given out in 1999, and was replaced with Best Musical Sequence in 2000, but made a return in 2009 and retired again.^[2] It returned in 2012 renamed as Best Music and retired again before reappearing as Best Musical Sequence before changing in 2017 to its current name.

In 1996, Batman Forever and Waiting to Exhale each had two songs nominated in this category, with the latter winning for "Sittin' Up In My Room". Bryan Adams, Bush and Whitney Houston have each won the Best Song honor from two nominations. Eric Clapton had received three nominations, and Boyz II Men, Céline Dion, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Sting have each been nominated twice.

Best Song from a Movie

Year	Film	Song	Artist(s)
1992 ^[3]
	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	"Everything I Do I Do It For You"	Bryan Adams
	The Addams Family	"Addams Groove"	MC Hammer
	New Jack City	"I Wanna Sex You Up"	Color Me Badd
	Rush	"Tears in Heaven"	Eric Clapton
	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	"You Could Be Mine"	Guns N' Roses
1993 ^[4]
	The Bodyguard	"I Will Always Love You"	Whitney Houston
	Boomerang	"End of the Road"	Boyz II Men
	Lethal Weapon 3	"It's Probably Me"	Sting and Eric Clapton
	Aladdin	"A Whole New World"	Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle
	Singles	"Would?"	Alice in Chains
1994 ^[5]
	Free Willy	"Will You Be There"	Michael Jackson
	The Three Musketeers	"All for Love"	Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting
	Sliver	"Can't Help Falling in Love"	UB40
	Benny & Joon	"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"	The Proclaimers
	Philadelphia	"Streets of Philadelphia"	Bruce Springsteen
	Sleepless in Seattle	"When I Fall in Love"	Céline Dion and Clive Griffin
1995 ^[6]
	The Crow	"Big Empty"	Stone Temple Pilots
	The Lion King	"Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"	Elton John
	Pulp Fiction	"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"	Urge Overkill
	With Honors	"I'll Remember"	Madonna
	Above the Rim	"Regulate"	Warren G and Nate Dogg
1996 ^[7]
	Waiting to Exhale	"Sittin' Up In My Room"	Brandy
	Batman Forever	"Kiss From a Rose"	Seal
		"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"	U2
	Dangerous Minds	"Gangsta's Paradise"	Coolio
	Waiting to Exhale	"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"	Whitney Houston
1997 ^[8]
	Fear	"Machinehead"	Bush
	Evita	"Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"	Madonna
	Phenomenon	"Change the World"	Eric Clapton and Babyface
	Romeo + Juliet	"#1 Crush"	Garbage
1998 ^[9]
	Men in Black	"Men In Black"	Will Smith
	An American Werewolf in Paris	"Mouth"	Bush
	A Life Less Ordinary	"Deadweight"	Beck
	Soul Food	"A Song for Mama"	Boyz II Men
	Titanic	"My Heart Will Go On"	Céline Dion
1999 ^[10]
	Armageddon	"I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"	Aerosmith
	City of Angels	"Iris"	Goo Goo Dolls
	Dr. Dolittle	"Are You That Somebody?"	Aaliyah
	Rush Hour	"Can I Get A..."	Jay-Z, Ja Rule and Amil
	Varsity Blues	"Nice Guys Finish Last"	Green Day
2009 ^[11]
	Hannah Montana: The Movie	"The Climb"	Miley Cyrus
	Slumdog Millionaire	"Jai Ho"	A. R. Rahman
	Twilight	"Decode"	Paramore
	The Wrestler	"The Wrestler"	Bruce Springsteen

Best Musical Sequence

Year	Film	Song	Artist(s)
2000 ^[12]
	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	"Uncle F**ka"	Terrence and Philip
	10 Things I Hate About You	"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"	Heath Ledger
	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	"Just the Two of Us"	Mike Myers and Verne Troyer
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	"Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano"	Matt Damon, Jude Law and Rosario Fiorello
2001 ^[13]
	Coyote Ugly	"One Way or Another"	Piper Perabo
	Almost Famous	"Tiny Dancer"	Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Jason Lee and Anna Paquin
	High Fidelity	"Let's Get It On"	Jack Black
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	"Man of Constant Sorrow"	George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro
	Road Trip	"I Wanna Rock"	Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Paulo Costanzo and DJ Qualls
2002 ^[14]
	Moulin Rouge!	"Elephant Love Medley"	Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor
	A Knight's Tale	"Golden Years"	Heath Ledger and Shannyn Sossamon
	Moulin Rouge!	"Sparkling Diamonds"	Nicole Kidman
	Rush Hour 2	"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"	Chris Tucker
2005 ^[15]
	Napoleon Dynamite	"Canned Heat"	Jon Heder
	13 Going on 30	"Thriller"	Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo
	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy	"Afternoon Delight"	Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, and David Koechner
	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle	"Hold On"	John Cho and Kal Penn

Best Music

Year	Film	Song	Artist(s)
2012 ^[16]
	21 Jump Street	"Party Rock Anthem"	LMFAO
	Drive	"A Real Hero"	College and Electric Youth
	Hanna	"The Devil Is in the Details"	Chemical Brothers
	Like Crazy	"IMpossible"	Figurine
	Project X	"Pursuit of Happiness (Steven Aoki remix)"	Kid Cudi

Best Musical Moment

Year	Film / Series	Song	Artist(s)
2013 ^[17]
	Pitch Perfect	"No Diggity"	Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, and Hana Mae Lee
	Les Misérables	"I Dreamed a Dream"	Anne Hathaway
	Magic Mike	"It's Raining Men"	Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, and Adam Rodríguez
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	"Come On Eileen"	Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, and Ezra Miller
	Silver Linings Playbook	"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing / Fell in Love with a Girl"	Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper
2014 ^[18]
	This Is the End	"Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"	Backstreet Boys, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and Craig Robinson
	American Hustle	"Live and Let Die"	Jennifer Lawrence
	Identity Thief	"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", "Milkshake" and "Barracuda"	Melissa McCarthy
	We're the Millers	"Waterfalls"	Will Poulter
	The Wolf of Wall Street	"Pretty Thing"	Leonardo DiCaprio
2017 ^[19]
	Grease: Live	"You're the One That I Want"	Ensemble
	Beauty and the Beast	"Beauty and the Beast"	Ariana Grande and John Legend
	The Get Down	"Be That As It May"	Herizen F. Guardiola
	La La Land	"City of Stars"	Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone
	Moana	"How Far I'll Go"	Auliʻi Cravalho
	Trolls	"Can't Stop the Feeling!"	Justin Timberlake
	Hairspray Live!	"You Can't Stop the Beat"	Ensemble
2018 ^[20]
	Stranger Things	"Every Breath You Take"	Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) dance
	Black-ish	"Freedom"	Cast
	Call Me By Your Name	Elio crying through the end credits
	Girls Trip	Dance Battle
	The Greatest Showman	"Rewrite the Stars"	Phillip (Zac Efron) and Anne (Zendaya)
	Love, Simon	"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"	Dream sequence (song originally by Whitney Houston)
	Riverdale	"A Night We’ll Never Forget"	Cast
	This Is Us	"Landslide"	Kate (Chrissy Metz)
2019 ^[21]
	A Star Is Born	"Shallow"	Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
	Bohemian Rhapsody	"Live Aid" Concert
	Captain Marvel	"Just a Girl"	No Doubt
	Chilling Adventures of Sabrina	"Masquerade"	Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis, Jaz Sinclair, Tati Gabrielle, Gavin Leatherwood and Miranda Otto
	On My Block	"Look at That Butt"	Dillon Francis
	Riverdale	"Seventeen"	Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, Vanessa Morgan and Madelaine Petsch
	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	"Sunflower"	Post Malone and Swae Lee
	The Umbrella Academy	"I Think We're Alone Now"	Tiffany
2021 ^[22]
	Julie and the Phantoms	"Edge of Great"	Madison Reyes, Charlie Gillespie, Owen Joyner and Jeremy Shada
	Black is King	"Brown Skin Girl"	Beyoncé, Saint Jhn and Wizkid featuring Blue Ivy Carter
	Bridgerton	"Wildest Dreams"	Duomo (song originally by Taylor Swift)
	Cobra Kai	"I Wanna Rock"	Twisted Sister
	Love and Monsters	"Stand by Me"	Ben E. King
	The Kissing Booth 2	"Lost in the Wild"	Walk the Moon
	To All the Boys: Always and Forever	"Beginning, Middle, End"	Leah
	WandaVision	"Agatha All Along"	Kathryn Hahn, Robert Lopez, Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Jasper Randall and Gerald White
2022 ^[23]
	Heartstopper	"Dance with Me"	Beabadoobee
	Bridgerton	"Wrecking Ball"	Midnight String Quartet (song originally by Miley Cyrus)
	Cinderella	"Million To One"	Camila Cabello
	Cobra Kai	"The Moment of Truth"	Carrie Underwood
	Emily in Paris	"Dynamite"	Ashley Park (song originally by BTS)
	Encanto	"We Don't Talk About Bruno"	Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and the Encanto Cast
	Euphoria	"Holding Out for a Hero"	Bonnie Tyler
	Halo	"Original Score"	Sean Callery
	High School Musical: The Musical: The Series	"The Rose Song"	Olivia Rodrigo
	House of Gucci	"Disco Fever"
	Last Night in Soho	"Downtown"	Anya Taylor-Joy
	Peacemaker	"Do Ya Wanna Taste It"	Wig Wam
	Tick, Tick... Boom!	"Therapy"	Andrew Garfield and Vanessa Hudgens
	Turning Red	"Nobody Like U"	4*TOWN (Finneas, Jordan Fisher, Josh Levi, Grayson Villanueva & Topher Ngo)
	West Side Story	"America"	Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Ana Isabelle, the Sharks and Shark Girls
	Yellowjackets	"This Is How We Do It"	Montell Jordan
2023 ^[24]
	Purple Hearts	"Come Back Home"	Sofia Carson
	Daisy Jones & The Six	"Look at Us Now (Honeycomb)"	Sam Claflin
	Don't Worry Darling	Jack’s Tap Dance
	Elvis	"Trouble"	Austin Butler(song originally by Elvis Presley)
	Ginny & Georgia	"I Will Survive" (Bachelorette Party)	Gloria Gaynor
	M3GAN	"Titanium"	Jenna Davis
	Matilda the Musical	"Revolting Children"	Charlie Hodson-Prior, Meesha Garbett and Children cast
	RRR	"Naatu Naatu"	Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava
	She-Hulk: Attorney at Law	"Body"	Megan Thee Stallion
	Saturday Night Live	"Big Boys"	SZA, Keke Palmer, Cecily Strong, Ego Nwodim, and Punkie Johnson
	Stranger Things	"Running Up That Hill"	Kate Bush
	The Last of Us	"Long Long Time" (Bill & Frank Play Piano)	Linda Ronstadt
	The School for Good and Evil	"You Should See Me in a Crown"	Billie Eilish
	The Summer I Turned Pretty	"This Love (Taylor’s Version)"	Taylor Swift
	Wednesday	"Goo Goo Muck"	The Cramps
	Young Royals	"Simon’s Song"	Omar Rudberg

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