BET Award for Video Director of the Year

The BET Award for Video Director of the Year is given to the best directors of music videos released in the same or previous year. The category was first created in 2008 and since its conception. The all-time winner in this category is Beyoncé with three wins. Benny Boom has received the most nominations with sixteen each.

BET Award for Video Director of the Year
Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar is the most recent recipient
Country	United States
Presented by	BET Awards
First award	2008
Currently held by	Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar (2025)
Most wins	Beyoncé (3)
Most nominations	Benny Boom (16)
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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

Year	Director	Ref
2008
	Erykah Badu	[1]
	Benny Boom
	Gil Green
	Chris Robinson
	Evans Teollian
2009
	Benny Boom	[2]
	Rik Cordero
	Gil Green
	Chris Robinson
	Hype Williams

2010s

Year	Director	Video	Ref
2010
	Anthony Mandler		[3]
	Benny Boom
	Gil Green
	Chris Robinson
	Evans Teollian
2011
	Chris Robinson		[4]
	Benny Boom
	Mr. Boomtown
	Kanye West
	Hype Williams
2012
	Beyoncé and Alan Ferguson		[5]
	Benny Boom
	Chris Brown and Godfrey Taberez
	Kanye West
	Hype Williams
2013
	Benny Boom		[6]
	ASAP Rocky and Sam Lecca
	Evans Teollian
	Dre Films
	Hype Williams
2014
	Hype Williams		[7]
	Benny Boom
	Chris Brown
	Director X
	Colin Tilley
2015
	Beyoncé, Ed Burke and Todd Tourso		[8]
	Evans Teollian
	Chris Robinson
	Fatima Robinson
	Hype Williams
2016
	Director X		[9]
	Benny Boom
	Chris Brown
	Colin Tilley
	Hype Williams
2017
	Kahlil Joseph and Beyoncé	"Sorry"	[10]
	Benny Boom	"CRZY"
	Bruno Mars and Jonathan Lia	"That's What I Like"
	Director X	"Like I Would"
	Hype Williams	"Gucci Snakes"
2018
	Ava DuVernay		[11]
	Benny Boom
	Director X
	Chris Brown
	Dave Meyers
2019
	Karena Evans		[12]
	Benny Boom
	Colin Tilley
	Dave Meyers
	Hype Williams

2020s

Year	Director	Ref
2020
	Teyana Taylor	[13]
	Benny Boom
	Cole Bennett
	Dave Meyers
	Director X
	Eif Rivera
2021
	Bruno Mars and Florent Déchard	[14]
	Benny Boom
	Cole Bennett
	Colin Tilley
	Dave Meyers
	Hype Williams
2022
	Anderson .Paak	[15]
	Benny Boom
	Beyoncé and Dikayl Rimmasch
	Director X
	Hype Williams
	Missy Elliott
2023
	Teyana Taylor	[16]
	A$AP Rocky for AWGE
	Benny Boom
	Burna Boy
	Cole Bennett
	Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar
	Director X
2024
	Cole Bennett
	Benny Boom
	Child.
	Dave Meyers
	Janelle Monáe & Alan Ferguson
	Offset
	Tems
	Tyler, the Creator

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

3 wins Beyoncé

2 wins Benny Boom Teyana Taylor

Nominations

16 nominations Benny Boom 11 nominations Hype Williams 7 nominations Director X 5 nominations Chris Robinson 4 nominations Cole Bennett Beyoncé Chris Brown Dave Meyers

3 nominations Gil Green 2 nominations Alan Ferguson Bruno Mars Teyana Taylor Colin Tilley Kanye West

See also

• BET Award for Video of the Year