MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2009 disiarkan penghargaan tahunan ke-8 menunjukkan pada Sabtu, 30 Mei, di Saitama Super Arena di Saitama, Saitama. Gekidan Hitori adalah tuan rumah upacara.

Nominasi 
Pemenang berada di teks tebal.

Video of the Year 
 Namie Amuro — "New Look"
 Coldplay — "Viva la Vida"
 Exile — "Ti Amo (Chapter2)"
 Southern All Stars — "I Am Your Singer"
 Britney Spears — "Womanizer"

Album of the Year 
 Ayaka — Sing to the Sky
 Coldplay — Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
 Mr. Children — Supermarket Fantasy
 Ne-Yo — Year of the Gentleman
 Hikaru Utada — Heart Station

Best Male Video 
 Motohiro Hata — "Forever Song"
 Kreva — "Akasatanahamayarawawon"
 Ne-Yo — "Closer"
 Usher featuring Young Jeezy — "Love in This Club"
 Kanye West — "Heartless"

Best Female Video 
 Namie Amuro — "New Look"
 Thelma Aoyama — "Nando Mo"
 Beyoncé — "If I Were a Boy"
 Britney Spears — "Womanizer"
 Hikaru Utada — "Prisoner of Love"

Best Group Video 
 Exile — "Ti Amo (Chapter2)"
 Franz Ferdinand — "Ulysses"
 The Killers — "Human"
 Shōnan no Kaze — "Koishigure"
 TVXQ — "Jumon: Mirotic"

Best New Artist 
 Duffy — "Mercy"
 Girl Next Door — "Guzen no Kakuritsu"
 Miho Fukuhara — "Change"
 Kimaguren — "Life"
 Katy Perry — "I Kissed a Girl"

Best Rock Video 
 9mm Parabellum Bullet — "Living Dying Message"
 Acidman — "I Stand Free"
 Fall Out Boy — "I Don't Care"
 Franz Ferdinand — "Ulysses"
 Maximum the Hormone — "Tsume Tsume Tsume"

Best Pop Video 
 Lily Allen — "The Fear"
 Ikimono-gakari — "Kimagure Romantic"
 Perfume — "Dream Fighter"
 Katy Perry — "I Kissed a Girl"
 Rip Slyme — "Taiyou to Bikini"

Best R&B Video 
 Namie Amuro — "Sexy Girl"
 Akon — "Right Now (Na Na Na)"
 Juju featuring Spontania — "Sunao ni Naretara"
 Miliyah Kato — "19 Memories"
 Ne-Yo — "Miss Independent"

Best Hip-Hop Video 
 Kreva — "Akasatanahamayarawawon"
 Lil' Wayne featuring Static Major — "Lollipop"
 Teriyaki Boyz featuring Busta Rhymes dan Pharrell — "Zock On!"
 T.I. featuring Rihanna — "Live Your Life"
 Kanye West — "Heartless"

Best Reggae Video 
 Han-Kun — "Hotter Than Hot"
 Kardinal Offishall featuring Akon — "Dangerous"
 Mighty Jam Rock — "U.P. Star"
 Natty — "Cold Town"
 Ryo the Skywalker — "Ever Green"

Best Dance Video 
 The Brighton Port Authority featuring David Byrne dan Dizzee Rascal — "Toe Jam"
 Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip — "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
 Kraak & Smaak featuring Ben Westbeech — "Squeeze Me"
 Towa Tei featuring Miho Hatori — "Mind Wall"
 Ukawanimation! featuring Takkyū Ishino dan Kenichi Hagiwara — "Wakusei no Portrait 5 Okuman Gaso"

Best Video from a Film 
 AI — "Okuribito" (dari Departures)
 Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake dan Timbaland — "4 Minutes" (dari Get Smart)
 Monobright — "Ano Toumeikan to Shonen" (dari After School)
 Remioromen — "Yume no Tsubomi" (dari Kansen Retto)
 Jack White dan Alicia Keys — "Another Way to Die" (dari Quantum of Solace)

Best Collaboration 
 Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake dan Timbaland — "4 Minutes"
 Nelly dan Fergie — "Party People"
 Scha Dara Parr + Kaela Kimura — "Hey! Hey! Alright"
 T.I. featuring Rihanna — "Live Your Life"
 Anna Tsuchiya featuring AI — "Crazy World"

Best Karaokee! Song 
 Aqua Timez — "Niji"
 Mariah Carey — "Touch My Body"
 Coldplay — "Viva La Vida"
 Funky Monkey Babys — "Kibou no Uta"
 Kimaguren — "Life"

Penghargaan spesial

MTV Street Icon Award 
 Beastie Boys

MTV Best Choreography Award 
 Exile

Penampilan Live 
 The Black Eyed Peas — "Boom Boom Pow"
 BoA dan Sean Garrett — "I Did It for Love"
 Ciara — "Love Sex Magic"
 Exile (featuring Bach Logic) — "Touch The Sky"
 Green Day — "Know Your Enemy"
 Katy Perry — "Hot n Cold"
 Remioromen — "Sakura"
 9mm Parabellum Bullet — "Living Dying Message"

Penampilan red carpet 
 AAA — "Jamboree!! / Music!!!"
 Kimaguren
 Metro Station — "Shake It"

Tamu selebriti 

 Acidman
 AI
 Alan
 Thelma Aoyama
 Big Bang
 Blue Man Group
 DJ Caroline D'Amore
 Crystal Kay
 Cyril
 Nana Eikura
 Girl Next Door
 Yuna Ito
 DJ Kaori
 Natsuki Katō

 Kreva
 Meisa Kuroki
 Maximum the Hormone
 Minmi
 Nigo dan Verbal (dari Teriyaki Boyz)
 Misako Sakazune
 Shota Shimizu
 Shōnan no Kaze
 Special Others
 Nana Tanimura
 Triple H
 Michelle McCool
 W-inds
 Kanako Yanagihara

Lihat pula 
 50th Japan Record Awards

Pranala luar 
 MTV Video Music Awards Japan website 

MTV Video Music Awards Jepang