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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.

Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann (and her new-wave group, 'Til Tuesday) scored the Best New Artist award at the VMAs in 1985, while artist and composer Michael Penn won in 1990. The pair wed in 1997, making them the only married couple to have both won the award. Talk about a music industry power couple!

Though several talented artists have been nominated numerous times, only the most prolific have won that sought-after Video of the Year title twice. Missy Elliot won for "Work It" and "Lady Marmalade," Eminem for "The Real Slim Shady" and "Without Me," Rihanna for "Umbrella" and "We Found Love," and Beyoncé for "Single Ladies" and "Formation." But no one has taken home the night's biggest moonman thrice

For the first seven years of the VMAs, men dominated the hosting duties, with comedians ranging from Arsenio Hall to Chris Rock taking a crack at helming the night of music videos. That streak was broken in 1991 when comedian Roseanne Barr hosted the ceremony. Since then, only three women have followed suit: Chelsea Handler in 2010, Miley Cyrus in 2015, and Katy Perry in 2017.

According to MTV News, VMA wardrobe staff scuffs and tacks talents' shoes to make sure they don't fall, which makes total sense considering the amount of dancing that typically goes on during performances.

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.

Yes, in 2006, this seriously was a thing. But it was just given out for that one year, so Fort Minor is the only lucky winner in history. He won for a collaboration with Holly Brook on the song "Where'd You Go." Other nominees for the one-time category included Kanye West's "Gold Digger" and The Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps."

The iconic moonman statue has been redesigned one time in its three-decade history, but it wasn't permanent. In 2013—when the VMASs were in Brooklyn—renowned Brooklyn-based artist KAWS gave the statue a special-edition makeover: His skull-and-crossbones head moonman was only given that singular year.

Manhattan Design, the NYC-based design firm that created both the logo for MTV and its now iconic moonman, initially submitted three ideas for the statue: a sneaker, a container of popcorn (which ended up becoming the trophy for the MTV Movie Awards), and, of course, the moonman.

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.

The first-ever MTV VMAs aired live on September 14, 1984, and the ceremony was hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler, who took to the stage dressed in astronaut suits designed to mimic the "moonman" award statues.

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.