Green Day win 7, My Chemical Romance get nothing
Green Day continued its charmed year by dominating the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards last night (Aug. 28) at Miami’s American Airlines Arena. The group’s video for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” won six awards, including video of the year, best group video, best rock video and two trophies for direction and cinematography (for director Samuel Bayer). Another clip, “American Idiot,” won the viewer’s choice award.
The group’s performance of “Boulevard” opened MTV’s live broadcast of the VMAs, which were hosted by Diddy. “It’s nice to know rock music still has a place at MTV,” lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said while accepting the best rock video award.
The only other rock winner was Fall Out Boy who won the MTV2 award for their video ‘Sugar’. My Chemical Romance who were nominated for more than 5 awards came away empty handed despite spending over $500,000 dollars on the video for ‘Ghost Of You’. The band played Reading and Leeds in the same day so that they could attend the awards ceremony.
Source: metalhammer.co.uk
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