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David Fincher has received directing accolades not only for big screen movies, but for several music videos as well. The Fight Club and Gone Girl director took home VMAs for Best Direction for Madonna's "Express Yourself" and "Vogue," in 1989 and 1990, respectively, and for Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie," in 2013.

Tony Hawk's Underground became the first winner of the Best Video Game Soundtrack Award in 2004, back when MTV was trying to broaden its audience to the massive gaming community. The soundtracks for Dance Dance Revolution Extreme and Marc Eck's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure were the only other two winners, in 2005 and 2006 respectively, before the network decided to shelve the category for good.

Madonna's original plan for her 1984 performance of "Like a Virgin" was to sing the song to a real-life white Bengal tiger, Billboard reported. Though the idea was nixed—for safety reasons—she still delivered an iconic performance, emerging from a 17-foot tall wedding cake in that unforgettable lace bustier wedding dress. But even that wasn't entirely planned.

"I walked down these steps which were the tiers of a wedding cake, and I lost…my white stiletto. I thought, 'Oh my God, how am I going to get that? It's over there and I'm on TV.' So I thought, 'Well, I'll pretend I meant to do this,' and I dove onto the floor," she told Jay Leno in 2012. "And I rolled around and I reached for the shoe, and as I reached for the shoe, the dress went up, and then the underpants were showing. And I didn't mean to." Classic MTV VMA debauchery.

While the VMAs are touted as a primarily fan-based awards show, there are a few categories you won't find on the voting website. There are six "professional" categories that only the aforementioned select committee is able to vote on: Best Direction, Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Choreography, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction.