VMA Nominations; Beyonce & Lady GaGa Lead

Published: Tuesday 4th Aug 2009 by Sam
VMA Nominations; Beyonce & Lady GaGa Lead
The nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards 2009 were announced today. Leading the field with a whopping 9 nominations a piece are Beyonce and Lady GaGa. Check out the full list of nominations for the extravaganza, which airs live on MTV on September 13th:

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Eminem – We Made You
Kanye West – Love Lockdown
Britney Spears – Womanizer


BEST NEW ARTIST

Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Drake – Best I Ever Had
3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me
Kid Cudi – Day N’Nite
Asher Roth – I Love College

BEST MALE VIDEO

Eminem – We Made You
Kanye West – Love Lockdown
Jay-Z – D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)
T.I. Featuring Rihanna – Live Your Life
Ne-Yo – Miss Independent

BEST FEMALE VIDEO

Katy Perry – Hot N Cold
Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me
P!nk – So What

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 featuring 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 featuring Justin Timberlake – Love Sex Magic
AR Rahman & Pussy Cat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger – Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)
Kristina DeBarge – Goodbye

BEST DIRECTION

Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
Green Day – 21 Guns
Cobra Starship featuring 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 Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
Eminem – We Made You
Kanye West ft 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 Barkley – 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

BEST VIDEO (THAT SHOULD HAVE WON A MOONMAN)

U2 – Where The Streets Have No Name
Dr Dre – Nuthin’ But A ‘G’ Thang
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
Bjork – Human Behavior
Radiohead – Karma Police
George Michael – Freedom
Foo Fighters – Everlong
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Into The Great Wide Open
OK Go – Here It Goes Again
David Lee Roth – California Girls

I don’t usually get too hung up on nominations unless there is something drastically bogus about them, which doesn’t seem to be the case here. Everything is pretty much as I expected, with some folks’ videos being nominated simply because they are big (see: Drake and Britney Spears) and obvious picks like Beyonce – who I fully expect (and deserves) to clean house with her noms for ‘Single Ladies’.

That said, why Ciara’s ‘Love Sex Magic’ didn’t make more catergories is beyond me. Also, where is Keri Hilson?
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  1. ky August 4, 2010

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