BET Awards 2010

10th BET Awards
10th BET Awards
Date	June 27, 2010
Location	Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Black Entertainment Television
Hosted by	Queen Latifah
Television/radio coverage
Network	BET

The 10th BET Awards took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on June 27, 2010. The awards recognized Americans in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. Queen Latifah hosted the event for the first time.

Nominees and winners

Winners are highlighted in boldface

Video of the Year	Video Director of the Year
"Video Phone" – Beyoncé feat. Lady Gaga "Run This Town" – Jay-Z feat. Kanye West and Rihanna "Empire State of Mind" – Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys "Nothin' on You" – B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars "It Kills Me" – Melanie Fiona	Anthony Mandler Benny Boom Gil Green Chris Robinson Hype Williams
Best Female R&B Artist	Best Male R&B Artist
Alicia Keys Beyoncé Mary J. Blige Melanie Fiona Rihanna	Trey Songz Chris Brown Raheem DeVaughn Maxwell Usher
Best Female Hip-Hop Artist	Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
Nicki Minaj Ester Dean Lil' Kim Rasheeda Trina	Drake B.o.B Fabolous Jay-Z Ludacris
Best Collaboration	Best New Artist
Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys – "Empire State of Mind" Beyoncé feat. Lady Gaga – "Video Phone" B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars – "Nothin' on You" Drake feat. Trey Songz – "Successful" Drake feat. Lil Wayne, Kanye West & Eminem – "Forever" Trey Songz feat. Fabolous – "Say Aah"	Nicki Minaj Justin Bieber Melanie Fiona Wale Young Money
Best Group	Coca-Cola Viewers' Choice
Young Money The Black Eyed Peas Clipse Diddy-Dirty Money New Boyz	"Hard" – Rihanna feat. Young Jeezy "Sweet Dreams" – Beyoncé "Say Aah" – Trey Songz feat. Fabolous "Everything to Me" – Monica "Bedrock" – Young Money
YoungStars Award	Centric Award
Keke Palmer Selena Gomez Lil' JJ Willow Smith Tyler James Williams	Monica Melanie Fiona Maxwell Chrisette Michele Sade
Best Actress	Best Actor
Mo'Nique Taraji P. Henson Regina King Zoe Saldana Gabourey Sidibe	Idris Elba Quinton Aaron Don Cheadle Jamie Foxx Denzel Washington
Best Movie	Best Gospel Artist
Precious Avatar Law Abiding Citizen Michael Jackson's This Is It The Blind Side	Marvin Sapp The Anointed Pace Sisters Kirk Franklin Presents Artists United For Haiti Tamela Mann Vickie Winans
Subway Sportswoman of the Year	Subway Sportsman of the Year
Serena Williams Tamika Catchings Vanessa James Candace Parker Venus Williams	LeBron James Carmelo Anthony Usain Bolt Kobe Bryant Tiger Woods
Best International Act
Dizzee Rascal (UK) Kojo Antwi (Ghana) Chipmunk (UK) Estelle (UK) Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) (South Africa) K'NAAN (Somalia/Canada) M.I (Nigeria) P-Square (Nigeria) Corinne Bailey Rae (UK) Sade (UK)

Prince was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award

Presenters

Jada Pinkett Smith - Best Female R&B Artist
Taraji P. Henson & Mike Epps - Best Female Hip Hop Artist
Nia Long - Best Male Hip Hop Artist
H.E.R. - Introduced Alicia Keys by singing Fallin'
Keri Hilson - Introduced Music Matters
Holly Robinson Peete - Paid tribute to Dorothy Height and introduced Geoffrey Canada from the documentary Waiting for "Superman"
Monica & Deniece Williams - Best Collaboration
Jermaine Jackson - Paid tribute to Michael Jackson and introduced Chris Brown
Laila Ali - Sportman/women of the year
The-Dream - Introduced another performance of Music Matters
Keke Palmer
LeToya Luckett - Announced upcoming performances
Mike Epps - Introduced the Black Eyes Peas
Black Eyed Peas - Best Male R&B Artist
Todd Bridges - Paid tribute to Gary Coleman
Niecy Nash & Anthony Anderson - Video of the Year
Ciara - Introduced El DeBarge
Chaka Khan & Patti LaBelle - Presents Prince with the Lifetime Achievement Award
Brandy & Ray J -
Lauren London & Boris Kodjoe

Performers

Kanye West - Power
Usher - There Goes My Baby
T.I. & Travis Barker - The Way We Ride
Alicia Keys & - No One/Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart/If I Ain't Got You/Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)
C.J. Hilson
B.o.B, Keyshia Cole & Eminem - Airplanes/Not Afraid
Monica & Deniece Williams - Everything To Me
Diddy, Rick Ross, T.I. & Nicki Minaj - O Let's Do It/Hello Good Morning
Chris Brown - The Way You Make Me Feel/Remember The Time/Smooth Criminal/Billie Jean/Man In the Mirror (Tribute to Michael Jackson)
Elle Varner - So Fly
Drake & Young Jeezy - Fireworks/Over/Lose My Mind
El DeBarge - All This Love/I Like It/Rhythm of the Night (song)
Tyrese - Come Go With Me/Turn Off the Lights (Tribute to Teddy Pendergrass)
Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond, Marvin Sapp, Kim Burrell, Yolanda Adams, Karen Clark-Sheard - Are You Listening (Tribute to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake)
Trey Songz - Yo Side of the Bed/Purple Rain
El DeBarge - Second Chance
Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Alicia Keys, Patti LaBelle - Let's Go Crazy/If I Was Your Girlfriend/Adore/Purple Rain (Tribute to Prince)
Ludacris, Nicki Minaj, T-Pain, Busta Rhymes, Rick Ross, Diddy, DJ Khaled, & Tommy Lee - All I Do Is Win

In Memoriam

Chris Brown's Michael Jackson tribute

During the Awards, a tribute to Michael Jackson was performed by Chris Brown. After a speech from the singer's brother, Jermaine, the tribute began with Brown dancing Jackson's signature dances behind a lighted sheet. He then sung a piece of "The Way You Make Me Feel" and performed the Egyptian dance sequence of the "Remember the Time" music video. Brown later danced Jackson's moves to "Billie Jean", including his famous moonwalk.^[1]

Finally, Brown was to sing "Man in the Mirror", but during the performance, he began to break down in tears to the point where he could not sing the rest of the song; the audience then helped Brown with the song and Brown was seen with Jermaine on his shoulders walking with him off the stage.

He later returned to the stage when he won the AOL "fandemonium award" and gave a small speech: "I let you all down before, but I won't do it again. I promise you," he said.^[2]