Which category was included for the first time at the 1987 VMAs?

Best Video from a Film was included for the first time at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards.

The new category recognized music videos connected to movie soundtracks. Its inaugural nominees included Talking Heads’ “Wild Wild Life” from True Stories, Eric Clapton’s “It’s in the Way That You Use It” from The Color of Money, and songs associated with films such as Back to School, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, and Stand by Me.

Talking Heads won the first award with “Wild Wild Life,” a playful video tied to David Byrne’s film True Stories. The category reflected MTV’s growing interest in the relationship between music videos and cinema, a connection that had become increasingly important as films used music promotion and artists appeared in soundtrack projects.

This category is easy to confuse with later VMA additions such as Best Pop Video, Best Hip-Hop Video, or Best K-Pop Video. Those labels belong to different periods of the awards’ evolving category system. The 1987 ceremony itself took place at Los Angeles’ Universal Amphitheatre and was dominated by Peter Gabriel, who won ten awards.