On 28 November t. A. T. u were awarded the Legend of MTV at the MTV Russia Music Awards 2008.

He was awarded the same title by MTV China and MTV Taiwan.

As Hedy, the psychotic " roommate from hell " who steals flatmate Bridget Fonda's identity and boyfriend and commits murder with a stiletto heel, Leigh created a memorably vulnerable and frightening character, and was awarded the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain and nominated by the Chicago Film Critics Association for Best Actress.

Chase was awarded the 2003 Best Villain award at the MTV Movie Awards for her performance, beating out Mike Myers, Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe and Daniel Day-Lewis.

In 1992 Jason was awarded the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award.

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video was first given out at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards ; and in 2007, going along with how the VMAs were revamped that year, the award was renamed Best Group, as it awarded the artist's body of work for the full year rather than a specific video.

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance in a Video was first awarded at the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.

The MTV Video Music Award for Most Experimental Video was first awarded in 1984.

The MTV Video Music Award for Viewer's Choice was first awarded at the first annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.

The MTV Video Music Award for Best R & B Video was first awarded in 1993, and was given every year until 2006, as the following year MTV revammped the VMAs and eliminated all of the genre categories.

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video was first awarded in 1989, and it was one of the original four genre categories that were added to the MTV Video Music Awards that year.

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film was first awarded in 1987, recognizing the best videos whose songs were a part of a movie soundtrack or featured in a film.

The MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video was first awarded in 1988, replacing the award for Most Experimental Video.

At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, the video was awarded Best Rap Video and Best New Artist and was nominated for Video of the Year, Best Male Video, and Viewer's Choice.

" At the 1994 MTV Movie Awards, the film was awarded Best Movie, beating out the likes of Philadelphia, Jurassic Park and Schindler's List.

The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video Game Soundtrack was awarded from 2004 to 2006 as an attempt by MTV to tap into the video gaming community in order to gain greater audiences for its VMAs.

Lyrically, the band continued their trademark social commentary, with songs such as " MTV Get Off The Air " and " Jock-o-rama " poking fun at mainstream America.

In addition to the obscenity lawsuit and being ignored by the mainstream media ( MTV and most radio stations gave such groups scant notice, not to mention airplay ), the band became increasingly disillusioned with the underground scene as well.

In addition, the band has played a reworked version of their song " MTV Get Off the Air ", re-titled " MP3 Get Off the Web ", with lyrics criticizing music piracy.

Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

The band won the MTV awards for Best Rock Video for " Somewhere I Belong " and the Viewer's Choice Award for " Breaking the Habit ".

After playing the US Festival, and with the aid of the new medium of MTV, the band found rapid success in the United States.

To promote the album, the band made their only video for MTV, " Down With Disease ", airing in June of that year.

The band also won their first MTV Video Music Awards in the categories of Best Group Video for " Legs ," and Best Direction for " Sharp Dressed Man ".

Rickman was one of the many artists who recited Shakespearian sonnets on the 2002 album When Love Speaks, and is also featured prominently in a music video by the band Texas entitled " In Demand ", which premiered on Europe MTV in August 2000.

Its inclusion helped the song reach number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1992 ( it remained in the Hot 100 for over 40 weeks ), and won the band an MTV Award at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

It raised controversy when it was said to be an attack on the Bush administration, and was banned from daytime view on MTV ( despite the band saying that it was not an attack on a particular person, rather a comment on some people's negative attitudes ).

The same year the band was honoured with an MTV Icon award in a television special presented by Marilyn Manson.

In 1993, the band filmed an episode of MTV Unplugged, where they debuted the song " Big Empty.

In retrospect, MTV writer James Montgomery published an article questioning the validity of music critics opinions of the band during the 90's, saying, " All I'm suggesting is that perhaps it's time to admit that we were wrong about them from the get-go — that we treated them unfairly.

Mötley Crüe's video for " Girls, Girls, Girls " was banned by MTV for having completely nude women dancing around the members of the band in a strip club.

In 1993, Australian rock band INXS ' song " The Gift " was banned by MTV because of its use of Holocaust and Gulf War footage, among images of famine, pollution, war and terrorism.

As well as this, metal band Tool's music video for Prison Sex was banned from MTV, as the video and lyrics touch on the sensitive matter of child abuse.

* Mutha's Day Out, 1990s rock band, signed to Chrysalis records, had 3 videos on MTV rotation and 2 world tours

Initially dismissed in the music press as a " teeny bob sensation " were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synthpop, which, along with a MTV friendly video, took single " Take on Me " ( 1985 ) to number two in the UK and number one in the US.

Perhaps most infamously, the band was asked to play at MTV Video Music Awards, where they were nominated for the " Doll Parts " music video.

The band released a music video for the album's only single, " Lacquer Head ", which was banned from MTV because of references to and depictions of drug use, despite the song's anti-drug message.

While it is only one of the few music videos by Black Flag, the move of airing the video on MTV was controversial among fans due to the fact that the band members were against the act of selling out and was based on promoting their material DIY through distributing flyers and other low budget promotion.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

On May 22 Kid Rock's June 8, 2008 concert at Germany's Rock AM Festival was aired on every MTV affiliate around the world on their debut show " World Stage ".

The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of " Can't Buy Me Love ", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for " basically inventing " the music video.

This album, Oranges and Lemons, produced by Paul Fox, was their biggest seller yet, with the videos for " The Mayor of Simpleton " and " King for a Day " getting heavy airplay on MTV and other international music TV programs.

It featured the band's first single ( A-and B-side ), several rare B-side tracks as well as a radio promotion from 1979, a live track and several extended dance mix versions of their biggest MTV hits.

One year later, the same concept was used by MTV in their new series The Real World and Nummer 28 creator Erik Latour has long claimed that The Real World was directly inspired by his show.

In addition, several other cable channels, such as Bravo, A & E, E !, VH1 and MTV, devote large portions of their programming to reality programs.

Byrne appeared as a guest vocalist / guitarist for 10, 000 Maniacs during their MTV Unplugged concert, though the songs in which he is featured were cut from their following album.

The latter had videos played on MTV, one being " To Hell with the Devil ", and even saw some airtime on mainstream radio stations with their hit song " Honestly ".

Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into prominence in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around the medium.

To further signify the change in direction towards Music Video airplay, MTV officially dropped the Music Television tagline on February 8, 2010 from their logo in response to their increased commitment to non-scripted reality programming and other youth-oriented entertainment rising in prominence on their live broadcast.

The rumour claimed that MTV had banned the video because the content could not be shown within their programming.

His romantic relationship with Sean Sasser was also documented on the show with the two getting married on air ; their relationship was later nominated by MTV viewers for " Favorite Love Story " award.

In mid-1993, Zamora became aware that MTV was casting for the next season of their reality TV show, The Real World, which would take place in San Francisco.

MTV featured Lake Havasu during their Spring Break coverage in 1995 and 2004.

Introduce Yourself was released in 1987, and a revamped version of their debut album's title track " We Care a Lot " saw minor success on MTV.