Beyonce’s wins included best female video, pop video, breakthrough long-form video, choreography, direction, cinematography and editing.
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At the end of the video she’s seen with her fiancé, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert. He talked about his “Famous” video, which features what appear to be naked images of himself, his wife Kim Kardashian, Swift, Donald Trump and others.
Performance No. 2 found her kitted out in a pair of black Alexandre Vauthier trousers, a pink, fur-trimmed bra by Rosamosario and a white T-shirt (or part of one anyway), which multiple reports credit to Adam Selman.
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award: Rihanna.
The question was on everyone’s lips – where was she?
Alicia Keys announced the victor of the award after giving a passionate A Capella performance of a poem on the 53rd anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech. Fellow gymnast Gabby Douglas missed the show after she was admitted to hospital with a mouth infection.
Song of the summer: Fifth Harmony, “All in My Head (Flex)”.
He soon went on Instagram to pay another tribute to Rihanna, which came with an especially coupley picture of the two of them in Toronto, huddled under the CN Tower while Drake plants a kiss near her left eye.
Drake won best hip hop video, for Hotline Bling, but did not collect his trophy on stage because he was stuck in traffic, presenter Sean “Diddy” Combs told the crowd. Ty Dolla $ign, “Work from Home”.
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David Bowie – who succumbed to cancer on 10 January – received four nominations for Lazarus and won best art direction.
