This past Saturday, the Black Eyed Peas showed up at the NRJ Awards (the top music awards show in France), and won the award for best international group. Just one more step in the unending world-wide dominance of the Black Eyed Peas, right? Wrong! The group was actually given the award by mistake. The new winner was announced, to the sound of boos.



As the host of the show said, "It happens!" Indeed. Embarrassing mistakes at award shows do happen... and so, in honor of this occasion, we present you with a round-up of the Most Amazing Award Show Mistakes of All Time.

Michael Jackson Accepts an Award Instead of Cake (2002 Video Music Awards)

In 2002, MTV's VMA ceremony was held on August 29th... which also happens to be the same day as Michael Jackson's birthday. To celebrate his B-Day, MTV planned an impromptu party. They had Britney Spears present him with a cake, and during her introductory speech, she called Michael "the artist of the millennium."



And that's when things started to get a little... weird. A confused MJ thought that he was being given an actual award for "artist of the millennium" (no such award exists), and began giving a speech of his own. Michael accepted the "award," and then went on to thank (in no particular order), God, his mother, James Brown... and magician David Blaine. A slightly startled audience went along with it, and gave him a standing ovation anyway.
Sigh. Oh MJ, we hardly knew you. And you hardly knew what you were saying.

Avril Lavigne Can't Say "David Bowie" (2003 Grammy Awards)

An eighteen-year-old Avril Lavigne mispronounced the name of one of the most famous rock-stars in the world at the nominations announcements of the '03 Grammys. Announcing the nominees for best male vocal performance, she pronounced the Thin White Duke's name as follows: "David B-OW-ie." Uh, no, Ms. Lavigne. It's said like this: "B-ough-ie." Pronounced "Owe," as in, you sort of owe him an apology.

When told of her mistake, Avril said this: "Oops! I knew that was going to happen..." Yeah. Hey, Avril, considering how hard it is to pronounce your own name (it's AV-roohl Luhv-EEN, for the record), maybe you could take a little more effort when reading the names of others. Just a thought...

Andy Williams to Stevie Wonder: "Can You See Us Now?!" (1976 Grammy Awards)


Sadly, the next awards show moment occurred before the existence of YouTube - otherwise, we'd have approximately one million video clips of it. And speaking of video problems, technical difficulties were rife at the 1976 Grammy awards. Singer Stevie Wonder was all set to perform a live show from Nigeria, but couldn't get connected to the main Grammys stage.

It was at this point that host Andy Williams grew frustrated, and shouted out the immortal words, "Stevie, can you see us now?!" Slight problem, though. Stevie Wonder is BLIND. Whoops.

Many years later, Ryan Seacrest would perform a version of the same mistake when he attempted to high-five a blind contestant on 'American Idol.' Although that's not from an awards show, we thought it worth mentioning... just because it remains mortifyingly awful...

Kristen Stewart Drops Her Award (2009 MTV Movie Awards)

If you're Kristen Stewart, star of "Twilight," you don't just have to worry about dating an abstinence glitter vampire, or about being surrounded by hordes of obsessed fans. No, you also have to worry about more basic things... like gravity.

Here, Kristen accepts a best actress award, then instantly drops it to the ground. Luckily, there's a bizarre popcorn-hatted creature in gold spandex to help her pick it up. And thank God for that.



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CHIC0 said:

God I miss him.

Cinnie said:

CHIC0 said:

He did that on purpose.



Does anyone have a video of this Black Eyed Peas incident? The whole thing sounds hillarious, like something out of SPINAL TAP. I can't believe the audience boo'd the actual winners.

Cinnie said:

It's shit he's not here, isn't it?

On the other hand I don't miss him rocking the giant-old-lady-diamond-brooch-gone-wrong he seemed to favour at the time of this pic.

vanity2 said:

That's because he was told beforehand he was being given an award

I won't get into the whole thing but yeah.....

Cinnie said:

Don't you cry on me, bitch!

I still got to bootleg your album to high hell...

The Brit Awards 1989 with Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox. I just watched this full show again on youtube (Don't ask me why) and I gotta say, the whole thing gets my nomination. Seriously bad.

Didn't the NRJ Awards do this to Rihanna and Katy Perry last year?

bboy87 said:

That MJ thing was bogus. They played him, there's definately a pre-show screencap from MTV's website floating around on the net that says Britney would present him with the Artist of the Millenium award.

They lied and embarrassed him on purpose. MTV are hypocritical assholes.



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MTV Comes Clean about Artist of the Millennium Award?

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 June 2009 01:27
Sunday, 28 June 2009 00:00

Years after denying it and making hateful jokes about it, someone at MTV is apparently trying to come clean by admitting -- in a nondirect, cowardly way -- that the late Michael Jackson did receive the "Artist of the Millennium" award in 2002.

The caption (see screenshot) underneath a picture of Michael Jackson that night reads: "Britney Spears presents Michael Jackson with the Artist of the Millennium Award at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards" (View big, full screenshot here).

If you remember, there was a big controversy as to how MTV promised to honor Jackson by presenting him with a new, special award. Jackson showed up, helping to boost their ratings, while MTV later made a mockery of the entire event.


The same night there was a controversy as to whether or not MTV actually gave Jackson an award, with some insiders saying higher-ups had MTV pull the award to teach Jackson a lesson. This was around or after the big falling out Jackson had with Sony Music.

MTV pretended like Jackson went up on stage and gave himself an award, or had a "misunderstanding" of how he was being honored that night; his birthday by the way.

But apparently nobody warned to the guys running MTV's website that the award had been yanked or that Jackson was being made a fool out of because they posted the information about the Artist of the Millennium Award on MTV's site that night. See screenshot from 2002 below:

The next year Jack Black participated in a disgusting -- and rather unfunny actually -- parody of the event where he mocked Jackson.

Now after Jackson's death, along with the subsequent outing of MTV as a racist network in the 80s for refusing to play black videos before Jackson broke through, apparently they are a little less tight lipped with the truth.

Music Television (MTV) rarely plays videos at all anymore and at some point lost it's edge and dedication to music a very long time ago.

MTV's sudden realization of the power of Michael Jackson came too late... 7 years too late.


Set of cunts.

Everyone knows MTV is horrible.