2009 MTV Video Music - Awards Nominees

2009 MTV Video Music Awards. 2009 MTV Video of the Year has become the biggest competition in recent VMA history, as the biggest names in music are up for it! Britney Spears’ “Womanizer,” Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” Eminem’s “We Made You,” Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” will all compete for the biggest award of the night. The nominees were announced in a video message taped by VMA host master of ceremonies, for the second year in a row, Russell Brand on Tuesday.
Beyoncé’s nominations are all for her “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)“. “I’ve been blessed this year to have ‘Single Ladies’ become a video people really connected with and responded to,” Beyoncé said in a statement, according to Rollingstone. “I’ve spent so much time watching all the great versions people created all around the world. It’s beautiful to feel you touch people and bring a song to life with a video.”
Lady Gaga’s nominations are split between “Poker Face” and “Paparazzi” and Kings of Leon, Drake and Asher Roth are all receiving their first-ever nods this year.
Joining Lady Gaga in the Best New Artist category are Drake (”Best I Ever Had”), 3OH!3 (”Don’t Trust Me”), Kid Cudi (”Day ‘N’ Nite”) and Asher Roth (”I Love College”).
Furthermore, MTV is also revisiting a few classic videos in a contest called Best Video: U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name” will go up against Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,” David Lee Roth’s “California Girls” and Radiohead’s “Karma Police,” among others, in that category.

The Best Male Video category nominated Eminem “We Made You” against Ne-Yo “Miss Independent”, Kanye West “Love Lockdown”, T.I. and Rihanna “Live Your Life”, and Jay-Z “D.O.A. [Death of Auto-Tune]”.

Best Female Video nominees are: Lady Gaga (”Poker Face”), Beyoncé (”Single Ladies [Put a Ring on It]”), Katy Perry (”Hot N Cold”), Kelly Clarkson (”My Life Would Suck Without You”), Taylor Swift (”You Belong With Me”) and Pink (”So What”).
The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards will take place September 13 at 9 p.m. in New York City. Celebrity presenters include Katy Perry, Ne-Yo and Chace Crawford.

But let’s see the other nominees:

Best Hip-Hop Video
Eminem - “We Made You”
Kanye West - “Love Lockdown”
Jay-Z - “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”
Asher Roth - “I Love College”
Flo Rida - “Right Round”

Best Pop Video
Beyoncé - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Lady Gaga - “Poker Face”
Britney Spears - “Womanizer”
Cobra Starship feat. Leighton Meester - “Good Girls Go Bad”
Wisin y Yandel - “Abusadora”

Best Rock Video
Coldplay - “Viva la Vida”
Kings of Leon - “Use Somebody”
Green Day - “21 Guns”
Fall Out Boy - “I Don’t Care”
Paramore - “Decode”

Best Choreography
Beyoncé - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Britney Spears - “Circus”
Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake - “Love Sex Magic”
AR Rahman & Pussy Cat Dolls feat. Nicole Scherzinger - “Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)”
Kristinia DeBarge - “Goodbye”

Best Direction
Beyoncé - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Lady Gaga - “Paparazzi”
Green Day - “21 Guns”
Cobra Starship feat. Leighton Meester - “Good Girls Go Bad”
Britney Spears - “Circus”

Best Editing
Beyoncé - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Britney Spears - “Circus”
Miley Cyrus - “7 Things”
Coldplay - “Viva la Vida”
Lady Gaga - “Paparazzi”

Best Special Effects
Beyoncé - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Gnarls Barkely - “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
Lady Gaga - “Paparazzi”
Eminem - “We Made You”
Kanye West feat. Mr Hudson - “Paranoid”

Best Cinematography
Beyoncé - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Coldplay - “Viva la Vida”
Lady Gaga - “Paparazzi”
Green Day - “21 Guns”
Britney Spears - “Circus”

Best Art Direction
Beyoncé - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
Britney Spears - “Circus”
Lady Gaga - “Paparazzi”
Gnarls Barkley - “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
Coldplay - “Viva la Vida”

Breakthrough Video
Death Cab for Cutie - “Grapevine Fires”
Gnarls Barkely - “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
Cold War Kids - “I’ve Seen Enough”
Anjulie - “Boom”
Chairlift - “Evident Utensil”
Bat for Lashes - “Daniel”
Major Lazer - “Hold the Line”
Passion Pit - “The Reeling”
Matt & Kim - “Lessons Learned”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Heads Will Roll”.

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