Michael Cragg of '' The Guardian '' ranked the video for " Pretty Hurts " in the ten best of Beyoncé 's career . Cragg deemed the clip " gorgeously shot " and opined that its magazine shoot style " slightly subverted by barely veiled sadness and tight rictus grins " . At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards , the clip was nominated in four categories : Best Editing , Best Direction , Best Cinematography Best Video with a Message , ultimately winning the latter two . Jessica Suarez of '' Rolling Stone '' included the clip in her year-end list of the ten best music videos of 2014
2014 MTV Video Music Awards
2014 MTV Video Music Awards
Pretty Hurts