MTV Video Music Awards 2009

2009 MTV Video Music Awards
Tanggal	13 September, 2009
Tempat	Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York
Host	Russell Brand
Network	MTV and VH1

2009 MTV Video Music Awards bertempat di September 13, 2009, di Radio City Music Hall di New York City, memberi penghargaan kepada video musik terbaik dari 19 Juni, 2008, sampai 19 Juni, 2009. Komedian Russell Brand memimpin acara untuk kedua kalinya berturut-turut. Pengahragaan diadakan setelah beberapa bulan kematian Michael Jackson. VMAs mendedikasikan malam itu kepada Jackson dengan sebuah retro-music video montage sebagai tribut. Madonna membuka acara dengan berbicara tentang Jackson. Janet Jackson tampil di VMAs untuk membayar tribut kepada saudara laki-lakinya dan menghonor karirnya. Pada akhir acara, mereka menampilkan trailer Michael Jackson's This Is It.

Nominasi

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Video of the Year

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

Best Male Video

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

Best Female Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
• Kelly Clarkson – "My Life Would Suck Without You"
• Lady Gaga – "Poker Face"
• Katy Perry – "Hot n Cold"
• Pink – "So What"
• Taylor Swift – "You Belong With Me"

Best New Artist

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

Best Pop Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
• Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) – "Good Girls Go Bad"
• Lady Gaga – "Poker Face"
• Britney Spears – "Womanizer"
• Wisin & Yandel – "Abusadora"

Best Rock Video

• Coldplay – "Viva la Vida"
• Fall Out Boy – "I Don't Care"
• Green Day – "21 Guns"
• Kings of Leon – "Use Somebody"
• Paramore – "Decode"

Best Hip-Hop Video

• Eminem – "We Made You"
• Flo Rida (featuring Kesha) – "Right Round"
• Jay-Z – "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
• Asher Roth – "I Love College"
• Kanye West – "Love Lockdown"

Breakthrough Video

• Anjulie – "Boom"
• Bat for Lashes – "Daniel"
• Chairlift – "Evident Utensil"
• Cold War Kids – "I've Seen Enough"
• Death Cab for Cutie – "Grapevine Fires"
• Gnarls Barkley – "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
• Major Lazer – "Hold the Line"
• Matt & Kim – "Lessons Learned"
• Passion Pit – "The Reeling"
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Heads Will Roll"

Best Direction in a Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Director: Jake Nava)
• Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) – "Good Girls Go Bad" (Director: Kai Regan)
• Green Day – "21 Guns" (Director: Marc Webb)
• Lady Gaga – "Paparazzi" (Director: Jonas Åkerlund)
• Britney Spears – "Circus" (Director: Francis Lawrence)

Best Choreography in a Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Choreographers: Frank Gatson and JaQuel Knight)
• Ciara (featuring Justin Timberlake) – "Love Sex Magic" (Choreographers: Jamaica Craft and "Marty")
• Kristinia DeBarge – "Goodbye" (Choreographer: Jamaica Craft)
• A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) – "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" (Choreographers: Robin Antin and Mikey Minden)
• Britney Spears – "Circus" (Choreographer: Andre Fuentes)

Best Special Effects in a Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Special Effects: VFX Effects and Louis Mackall V)
• Eminem – "We Made You" (Special Effects: Ingenuity Engine)
• Gnarls Barkley – "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (Special Effects: Gradient Effects and Image Metrics)
• Lady Gaga – "Paparazzi" (Special Effects: Chimney Pot)
• Kanye West (featuring Mr Hudson) – "Paranoid" (Special Effects: Wizardflex and Ghost Town Media)

Best Art Direction in a Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Art Director: Niamh Byrne)
• Coldplay – "Viva la Vida" (Art Director: Gregory de Maria)
• Gnarls Barkley – "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (Art Director: Zach Matthews)
• Lady Gaga – "Paparazzi" (Art Director: Jason Hamilton)
• Britney Spears – "Circus" (Art Directors: Laura Fox and Charles Varga)

Best Editing in a Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
• Coldplay – "Viva la Vida" (Editor: Hype Williams)
• Miley Cyrus – "7 Things" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
• Lady Gaga – "Paparazzi" (Editors: Danny Tull and Jonas Åkerlund)
• Britney Spears – "Circus" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)

Best Cinematography in a Video

• Beyoncé – "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Director of Photography: Jim Fealy)
• Coldplay – "Viva la Vida" (Director of Photography: John Perez)
• Green Day – "21 Guns" (Director of Photography: Jonathan Sela)
• Lady Gaga – "Paparazzi" (Director of Photography: Eric Broms)
• Britney Spears – "Circus" (Director of Photography: Thomas Kloss)

Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman)

• Beastie Boys – "Sabotage"
• Björk – "Human Behaviour"
• Dr. Dre – "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang"
• Foo Fighters – "Everlong"
• George Michael – "Freedom! '90"
• OK Go – "Here It Goes Again"
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – "Into the Great Wide Open"
• Radiohead – "Karma Police"
• David Lee Roth – "California Girls"
• U2 – "Where the Streets Have No Name"

Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Video

• Blaq Star – "Shining Star"
• Nerds in Disguise – "My Own Worst Enemy"
• One (Wo)Man Band – "Bad Reputation"
• The Sleezy Treezy – "Here It Goes Again"
• Synopsis – "The Kill"

Best Breakout Artist Awards

New York City	Bay Area	Atlanta	Chicago	Boston	Philadelphia	Washington, DC	Los Angeles
MeTalkPretty Red Directors The Shells of over 190 entries Presented by Time Warner Cable and MTV2	The New Up Oona Picture Me Broken of 129 entries Presented by Comcast and MTV2	Holla Front Rantings of Eva Tone G of over 150 entries Presented by Comcast and MTV2	Andrew Belle The Lifeline Stoop Goodnoise of over 150 entries Presented by Comcast and MTV2	Air Traffic Controller Gentlemen Hall Twin Berlin of over 150 entries Presented by Comcast and MTV2	Atlantic Avenue DaCav5 Rushmore of over 150 entries Presented by Comcast and MTV2	23RAINYDAYS RAtheMC Frank Sirius of over 170 entries Presented by Comcast and MTV2	La Banda Skalavera No Way Jose South Central Skankers of 116 entries Presented by Time Warner Cable and MTV Tr3́s

Penampilan

• Janet Jackson with This Is It back-up dancers – Tribute to Michael Jackson featuring "Thriller", "Bad", "Smooth Criminal", and "Scream"
• Katy Perry and Joe Perry – "We Will Rock You"
• Taylor Swift – "You Belong with Me"
• 30H!3 – "Don't Trust Me"
• Lady Gaga – "Poker Face" intro/"Paparazzi"
• Green Day – "East Jesus Nowhere"
• Beyoncé – "Sweet Dreams" intro/"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
• Muse – "Uprising"
• The All-American Rejects – "Gives You Hell"
• Kid Cudi – "Remembering DJ AM"
• Pink – "Sober"
• Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – "Empire State of Mind"

Kedatangan

Sebelum show

• Buzz Aldrin – presented Breakthrough Video
• Sway Calloway – presented Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman)

Main show

• Madonna – opened the show and paid tribute to Michael Jackson
• Shakira and Taylor Lautner – presented Best Female Video
• Jack Black and Leighton Meester – presented Best Rock Video
• Miranda Cosgrove and Justin Bieber – introduced Taylor Swift
• Pete Wentz and Gabe Saporta – introduced Lady Gaga
• Nelly Furtado and Kristin Cavallari – presented Best Pop Video
• Megan Fox and Adam Brody – introduced Green Day
• Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner – introduced an exclusive New Moon sneak peek preview
• Chace Crawford and Ne-Yo – introduced Beyoncé
• Diddy and Jamie-Lynn Sigler – presented Best Male Video
• Gerard Butler and Alexa Chung – introduced Muse
• Jennifer Lopez – presented Best Hip-Hop Video
• Eminem and Tracy Morgan – presented Best New Artist
• Serena Williams – introduced Pink
• Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg – presented Video of the Year

Pranala luar

• Official VMA 2009 site