Katy Perry, Adele and Lady Gaga were among the winners at this year's MTV Video Music Awards held on Sunday night (28 August). There ceremony and TV show goes on for two hours. Let Q take you up through the key points in roughly 200 words
Katy Perry won the Best Video prize for Firework and marked the occasion by wearing a floating Duplo brick as a hat. Our thoughts go out to the person sat behind her...
Winner of Best Female Video was Lady Gaga also turned up, this time not in meat bikini or looking like a minimalist sculpture but dressed like some sort of deranged John Travolta impersonator. Gaga performed with Brian May, who despite tough competition from Adele's bouffant and Katy Perry's purple hair-do, still had the most absurd follicles of all.
Tyler The Creator meanwhile picked up the award for Best New Artist, sending his own mother into an Exorcism-style screaming frenzy. Watch the mesmerizing footage of her reaction below.
However it was Beyonce who dominated the event, not only winning the Best Choreography award for Run The World, but also announcing that she's pregnant. Her husband Jay-Z performed with Kanye West, playing Otis from their recent Watch The Throne album - but only after a stage invader was bundled off-stage by bouncers. Which was ironic because normally it's Kanye who makes the unscheduled, "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'm gonna let you finish..." invasions at the VMAs. Perhaps it was just someone offering to babysit...
Here's the full list of MTV Video Music Awards 2011 winners:
Video of the Year: Katy Perry, Firework
Best Female Video: Lady Gaga, Born This Way
Best Male Video: Justin Bieber, U Smile
Best Collaboration: Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, E.T.
Best Hip-Hop Video: Nicki Minaj, Super Bass
Best New Artist: Tyler The Creator, Yonkers
Best Rock Video: Foo Fighters, Walk
Best Pop Video: Britney Spears, Till the World Ends
Best Video With A Message: Lady Gaga, Born This Way
Best Choreography: Beyoncé, Run the World (Girls)
Best Visual Effects: Katy Perry featuring Kanye West, E.T.
Best Art Direction: Adele, Rolling in the Deep
Best Editing: Adele, Rolling in the Deep
Best Cinematography: Adele, Rolling in the Deep
For more on this year's ceremony, visit Mtv.co.uk/events/vmas.
10:35 AM | 30/08/2011
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