Best Music Video

The Grammy Award for Best Music Video recognizes excellence in music videos. Eligible videos are synchronous or predominantly synchronous to a commercially released recording and must be recognized by the artist and/or record label as the official video for an individual track.

39th Annual Grammy Awards • 1997

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1995 and Aug 30, 1996

The Beatles won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Music Video with "Free As A Bird"

Winners & Nominees 1997

Winner
Nominees
  • The Beatles

    Free As A Bird

    The Beatles

  • Michael Jackson

    Earth Song (Video)

    Michael Jackson

  • Alanis Morissette

    Ironic (Video)

    Alanis Morissette

  • Tonight, Tonight (Video)

    Smashing Pumpkins

  • Green Day

    Walking Contradiction

    Green Day

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