2010 MTV VMA Awards Live Stream

The grandest MTV awards are scheduled to take place on September 12 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California. Watch 2010 Video Music Awards Live on MTV on Sunday. This event also called a VMA, is awarded by the cable network MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. The VMAs have been a generational pop-cultural annual award show that gathers the most popular bands and artists each year. For years, the show was noteworthy for its live crazy moments (some cut for the re-runs); it quickly gained popularity because of them, rather than the awards given.

First awarded at the end of the summer of 1984, and originally as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category), the MTV Video Music Awards have often been called the "Oscars for youth", an acknowledgment of the Awards ceremony's ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20-somethings each year.[1] By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award.[2] They are presented annually, and broadcast live on MTV. The statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV.

Electronic artist Deadmau5 has been announced as the "in house artist" and will be soundtracking the event. Lady Gaga broke two records with this year's nominations: She became the first female solo artist with two nominations in the Video of the Year category and the artist with the most nominations in a single year receiving 13 (18 including Beyoncé's "Video Phone (Extended Remix)" nominations).

Update: See the list of the 2010 MTV VMA Winners and watch 2010 MTV Video Music Awards Replay.