The BET Awards 2011 will air live from Los Angeles on June 26 hosted by comedian Kevin Hart. Check below for a full list of nominees.

Best Male R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Cee Lo Green
Bruno Mars
Trey Songz
Usher

Best Female R&B Artist
Beyoncé
Marsha Ambrosius
Keri Hilson
Jennifer Hudson
Rihanna

Best Male Hip-Hop Artist
B.o.B
Drake
Lil Wayne
Rick Ross
Kanye West

Best Female Hip-Hop Artist
Nicki Minaj
Diamond
Cymphonique
LoLa Monroe

Best Group
Diddy-Dirty Money
Cali Swag District
N.E.R.D.
New Boyz
Travis Porter

Best New Artist
J. Cole
Bruno Mars
Miguel
Willow Smith
Wiz Khalifa

Best Collaboration
B.o.B f/ Hayley Williams – “Airplanes”
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – “Look at Me Now”
Chris Brown f/ Tyga & Kevin McCall – “Deuces”
Waka Flocka Flame f/ Roscoe Dash & Wale – “No Hands”
Rihanna f/ Drake – “What’s My Name?”
Kanye West f/ Rihanna – “All of the Lights”

Video of the Year
Marsha Ambrosius – “Far Away”
B.o.B f/ Hayley Williams of Paramore – “Airplanes”
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – “Look at Me Now”
Keri Hilson – “Pretty Girl Rock”
Willow Smith – “Whip My Hair”
Kanye West f/ Pusha T – “Runaway”

Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
Mr. Boomtown
Chris Robinson
Kanye West
Hype Williams

Best Gospel
Byron Cage
Deitrick Haddon
Mary Mary
Karen Clark Sheard
BeBe & CeCe Winans

Best Actress
Halle Berry
Taraji P. Henson
Regina King
Zoe Saldana
Kerry Washington

Best Actor
Laz Alonso
Chris Brown
Don Cheadle
Idris Elba
Jamie Foxx

YoungStars Award
Shenell Edmonds
Keke Palmer
Diggy Simmons
Jaden Smith
Willow Smith

Best Movie
Death at a Funeral
For Colored Girls
Takers
The Book of Eli
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?

Sportswoman of the Year
Tamika Catchings
Candice Dupree
Maya Moore
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

Sportsman of the Year
Carmelo Anthony
Kobe Bryant
LeBron James
Derrick Rose
Michael Vick

Viewers’ Choice Award
Chris Brown f/ Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes – “Look at Me Now”
Lil Wayne f/ Cory Gunz – “6 Foot 7 Foot”
Mindless Behavior – “My Girl”
Nicki Minaj f/ Drake – “Moment 4 Life”
Rihanna f/ Drake – “What’s My Name?”
Trey Songz f/ Nicki Minaj – “Bottoms Up”

Centric Award
Marsha Ambrosius
Eric Benet
Cee-Lo Green
R. Kelly
Kem

Best International Act: U.K.
VV Brown
Chipmunk
Laura Izibor
Skepta
Tinchy Stryder
Tinie Tempah

Best International Act: Africa
2Face Idibia (Nigeria)
D’Banj (Nigeria)
D-Black (Ghana)
Angelique Kidjo (Benin)
Fally Ipupa (Congo DR)
Teargas (South Africa)

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There's so much wrong with this list, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Its B.E.T./Mtv/VH1, so its bullshit.

Beyonce nominated for Best R&B Female Artist really BET? Did she release any new material? Im not talking about her latest single. They most really need her star power to generate ratings for the show ...hence the nomination.

The BET Awards is now in the same league with the Grammys lacking real creditability. Hopefully they do a tribute to the late Teena Marie.

Whose getting the Lifetime Achievement Award? Hopefully this year its New Edition!!!!!!!!!!!

1sotrue said:

Hopefully they do a tribute to the late Teena Marie.

Oh God no.

Unless they do it right......But this is BET.

JabarR74 said:

Whose getting the Lifetime Achievement Award? Hopefully this year its New Edition!!!!!!!!!!!

No Tyler, the creator & odd Future wolf gang kill them all, they basically killed the past 12 months.

JabarR74 said:

Whose getting the Lifetime Achievement Award? Hopefully this year its New Edition!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd say give it to B.B. King. He's been performing since the 1940's and is still recording and touring. But BET probably never heard of him. Or they can give it to Fats Domino, Neville Brothers, Little Richard, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Bland, Chuck Berry, Booker T. Jones, Betty Wright, The Staples, Herbie Hancock, or many other people.

Layzie said:

1sotrue said:

Hopefully they do a tribute to the late Teena Marie.

Oh God no.

Unless they do it right......But this is BET.

Lawd, the sound problems are a given at the BET Awards. A tribute would sound like a mess. But, we could have Nicki Minaj do Square Biz, Keyshia Cole doing her best off key rendition of Deja Vu, Keri Hilson doing Out On A Limb, etc.

JabarR74 said:

Whose getting the Lifetime Achievement Award? Hopefully this year its New Edition!!!!!!!!!!!

Word has gotten out that this year's honoree for the Lifetime Achievement Award may be...

It's out on Wikipedia too: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ment_Award

DrHeat said:

No Tyler, the creator & odd Future wolf gang kill them all, they basically killed the past 12 months.

They're big right now, but with the BET viewers, they're still "bubbling under" per se

MidniteMagnet said:

Layzie said:

Oh God no.

Unless they do it right......But this is BET.

Lawd, the sound problems are a given at the BET Awards. A tribute would sound like a mess. But, we could have Nicki Minaj do Square Biz, Keyshia Cole doing her best off key rendition of Deja Vu, Keri Hilson doing Out On A Limb, etc.

I would love a tribute to her.....she so deserves it... but I can't think of anyone who would really do it justice.

MickyDolenz said:

JabarR74 said:

Whose getting the Lifetime Achievement Award? Hopefully this year its New Edition!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd say give it to B.B. King. He's been performing since the 1940's and is still recording and touring. But BET probably never heard of him. Or they can give it to Fats Domino, Neville Brothers, Little Richard, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Bland, Chuck Berry, Booker T. Jones, Betty Wright, The Staples, Herbie Hancock, or many other people.

As much as I agree with this, come on now...this is the BET awards. I can see the Grammys or even the NAACP Image Awards honoring these important figures. But they rather give homage to folks we all recognize universally.

lavender1983 said:

MidniteMagnet said:

Lawd, the sound problems are a given at the BET Awards. A tribute would sound like a mess. But, we could have Nicki Minaj do Square Biz, Keyshia Cole doing her best off key rendition of Deja Vu, Keri Hilson doing Out On A Limb, etc.

I would love a tribute to her.....she so deserves it... but I can't think of anyone who would really do it justice.

I think BET did a good job when they allowed Marsha Ambrosius to pay homage to her on the BET Honors show earlier this year, which is the only tasteful thing I can tolerate from BET. May I say, Marsha definitely did her justice. I don't want them to do any thing else. Didn't we see what they did to Michael two years ago????

silverchild said:

MickyDolenz said:

I'd say give it to B.B. King. He's been performing since the 1940's and is still recording and touring. But BET probably never heard of him. Or they can give it to Fats Domino, Neville Brothers, Little Richard, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Bland, Chuck Berry, Booker T. Jones, Betty Wright, The Staples, Herbie Hancock, or many other people.

As much as I agree with this, come on now...this is the BET awards. I can see the Grammys or even the NAACP Image Awards honoring these important figures. But they rather give homage to folks we all recognize universally.

I agree. BET was never that kind of channel anyways.

silverchild said:

MickyDolenz said:

I'd say give it to B.B. King. He's been performing since the 1940's and is still recording and touring. But BET probably never heard of him. Or they can give it to Fats Domino, Neville Brothers, Little Richard, Nancy Wilson, Bobby Bland, Chuck Berry, Booker T. Jones, Betty Wright, The Staples, Herbie Hancock, or many other people.

As much as I agree with this, come on now...this is the BET awards. I can see the Grammys or even the NAACP Image Awards honoring these important figures. But they rather give homage to folks we all recognize universally.

I haven't heard of 90% of the nominees on the list above, and most of the remaining I only heard of their name, but have never heard their songs.

Timmy84 said:

silverchild said:

As much as I agree with this, come on now...this is the BET awards. I can see the Grammys or even the NAACP Image Awards honoring these important figures. But they rather give homage to folks we all recognize universally.

I agree. BET was never that kind of channel anyways.

Now I do think that BET does a great job honoring figures on their BET Honors event, which comes on early each year. Herbie Hancock finally got recognized and they did a bang-up job honoring him also. The BET Awards would never think about recognizing someone like him though, which is sad, but it is what it is!

silverchild said:

lavender1983 said:

I would love a tribute to her.....she so deserves it... but I can't think of anyone who would really do it justice.

I think BET did a good job when they allowed Marsha Ambrosius to pay homage to her on the BET Honors show earlier this year, which is the only tasteful thing I can tolerate from BET. May I say, Marsha definitely did her justice. I don't want them to do any thing else. Didn't we see what they did to Michael two years ago????

Oh yea I forgot that little portion from the show...One of the few highlights....She did great...I'm so used to them fucking up tributes I've become jaded towards BET.

MickyDolenz said:

silverchild said:

As much as I agree with this, come on now...this is the BET awards. I can see the Grammys or even the NAACP Image Awards honoring these important figures. But they rather give homage to folks we all recognize universally.

I haven't heard of 90% of the nominees on the list above, and most of the remaining I only heard of their name, but have never heard their songs.

I wasn't taking about regular nominations. I was rather talking about special awards that are given to honor legends.

Based on this list......they should CANCEL the show.

Where the hell is Mint Condition?

Graycap23 said:

Where the hell is Mint Condition?

Please. Mint Condition is worth far more than a Burgeois Entertainment Television award nomination.

Graycap23 said:

Where the hell is Mint Condition?

TRUE! That's what I'm talkin' about. They haven't gotten their props yet, probably never will. That's the sad part. But their enduring work speaks volumes more than any award ever could.

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Janet Jackson? Really? Last year was P so I was expecting someone like Stevie Wonder this year...

silverchild said:

Timmy84 said:

I agree. BET was never that kind of channel anyways.

Now I do think that BET does a great job honoring figures on their BET Honors event, which comes on early each year. Herbie Hancock finally got recognized and they did a bang-up job honoring him also. The BET Awards would never think about recognizing someone like him though, which is sad, but it is what it is!

The BET Honors is the best of BET. The BET Awards, mostly, is the worst. But somehow it's more enjoyable than NAACP and MTV combined for some weird reason.

silverchild said:

JabarR74 said:

Whose getting the Lifetime Achievement Award? Hopefully this year its New Edition!!!!!!!!!!!

Word has gotten out that this year's honoree for the Lifetime Achievement Award may be...

It's out on Wikipedia too: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ment_Award

I see... I'll accept it if it's true. I still have mad love for Damita Jo.

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

Where the hell is Mint Condition?

Please. Mint Condition is worth far more than a Burgeois Entertainment Television award nomination.

Did u see that list of best group?

Emancipation89 said:

Janet Jackson? Really? Last year was P so I was expecting someone like Stevie Wonder this year...

Hmm...

This is how I'm feeling about the BET Awards so far. Every Lifetime Achievement Award they've given out since 2001 is based on awards they didn't give artists during that whole Walk of Fame phrase, which as they use to claim is the highest honor BET ever gives or whatever the fuck that means.

They've given a Walk of Fame to Michael, Aretha, Patti, Stevie, Smokey, Luther...just to name a few. I think those LTAA are just a cop out for them to pay homage to people they probably didn't get a chance to pay homage to when they were doing those Walk of Fame awards.

GOD HOW MUCH I HATE OVERRATED, UNWORTHY AWARD SHOWS!

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Timmy84 said:

silverchild said:

Now I do think that BET does a great job honoring figures on their BET Honors event, which comes on early each year. Herbie Hancock finally got recognized and they did a bang-up job honoring him also. The BET Awards would never think about recognizing someone like him though, which is sad, but it is what it is!

The BET Honors is the best of BET. The BET Awards, mostly, is the worst. But somehow it's more enjoyable than NAACP and MTV combined for some weird reason.

True. That's the only thing I try to watch on BET every year.

silverchild said:

Graycap23 said:

Where the hell is Mint Condition?

TRUE! That's what I'm talkin' about. They haven't gotten their props yet, probably never will. That's the sad part. But their enduring work speaks volumes more than any award ever could.

[Edited 5/18/11 12:24pm]

True.............but damn.