At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards , Beyoncé was presented with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her work on the visual album , performing a sixteen-minute medley of its songs . Van Tofler , president and CEO of Viacom , noted that their choice for the Vanguard Award was influenced by this project , saying , " when she put out the record and the way she did it in such a visual way , she was the most obvious choice " . She won a further three awards , Best Collaboration for " Drunk in Love " , and Best Cinematography and Best Video with a Social Message for " Pretty Hurts " . The album was nominated for World 's Best Album at the 2014 World Music Awards and Album of the Year at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards Japan . It also received two nominations at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards for Top '' Billboard '' 200 Album and Top R&B Album , while " Drunk in Love " was nominated for Top R&B Song . At the 2014 mtvU Woodie Awards , '' Beyoncé '' won in the category Did It My Way Woodie , awarded for the album 's release strategy . It won in the category for Album of the Year at the 2014 Soul Train Music Awards and Favorite Soul/R & B Album at the American Music Awards of 2014
2014 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
2014 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
Beyoncé (album)