2012 MTV Video Music Awards

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MTV Video Music Awards award ceremony

The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony hosted by MTV that celebrated the year’s most popular music videos and featured high-profile live performances.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	MTV Video Music Awards ⓘ award ceremony ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	2012 MTV Video Music Awards ⓘ surface form: 2012 MTV VMAs
broadcastLanguage	English ⓘ
city	Los Angeles ⓘ
closingPerformance	Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
date	2012-09-06 ⓘ
editionNumber	29 ⓘ
executiveProducer	Jesse Ignjatovic ⓘ
host	Kevin Hart ⓘ
location	Staples Center ⓘ
majorAward	Best Electronic Dance Music Video ⓘ Best Female Video ⓘ Best Hip-Hop Video ⓘ Best Male Video ⓘ Best New Artist ⓘ Best Pop Video ⓘ Best Rock Video ⓘ Best Video with a Message ⓘ Video of the Year ⓘ
network	MTV ⓘ MTV2 ⓘ
nextEvent	2013 MTV Video Music Awards ⓘ
notablePerformance	Girl on Fire ⓘ surface form: Alicia Keys featuring Nicki Minaj – Girl on Fire Frank Ocean – Thinkin Bout You ⓘ Let Yourself Go ⓘ surface form: Green Day – Let Yourself Go One Direction – One Thing ⓘ One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful ⓘ Pink – Blow Me (One Last Kiss) ⓘ We Found Love ⓘ surface form: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – We Found Love Rihanna – Cockiness (Love It) ⓘ Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together ⓘ
officialWebsite	http://www.mtv.com/vma/2012 ⓘ
openingPerformance	We Found Love ⓘ surface form: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – We Found Love
partOfSeries	MTV Video Music Award ⓘ surface form: MTV Video Music Awards
presenter	MTV ⓘ
previousEvent	2011 MTV Video Music Awards ⓘ
producer	Jesse Ignjatovic ⓘ
runtime	approximately 120 minutes ⓘ
state	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California
winnerOfBestFemaleVideo	Nicki Minaj – Starships ⓘ
winnerOfBestHipHopVideo	Drake ⓘ surface form: Drake featuring Lil Wayne – HYFR (Hell Ya Fucking Right)
winnerOfBestMaleVideo	Chris Brown – Turn Up the Music ⓘ
winnerOfBestNewArtist	One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful ⓘ
winnerOfBestPopVideo	One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful ⓘ
winnerOfBestRockVideo	Coldplay ⓘ surface form: Coldplay – Paradise
winnerOfBestVideoWithAMessage	Demi Lovato – Skyscraper ⓘ
winnerOfVideoOfTheYear	We Found Love ⓘ surface form: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – We Found Love

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