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The 2018 BET Award were handed out Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The show, which honors artists, actors and athletes across 20 categories, also featured tributes to Prince by a slew of artists, including Jennifer Hudson and Stevie Wonder, and a surprise performance by Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. BET Awards Pay Tribute to Prince With The Roots, Stevie Wonder, Maxwell, Erykah Badu, Sheila E. and More. In addition, Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams was given the Humanitarian Award, delivering a passionate Black Lives Matter speech, while Samuel L. Jackson received the Lifetime Achievement Award. The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually, and are broadcast live on BET. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by artists, and some of the awar...

BET Networks, today announced the nominations for the 2018 "BET Awards," taking place at Microsoft Theater on Sunday, June 26. This year’s broadcast marks 16 years of spectacular performances, must-see moments, outstanding talent, and exquisite music: from Alicia Keys performing during the Prince Lifetime Achievement Award tribute and Michael Jackson taking the stage with James Brown to Beyoncé catering to Terrence Howard and the reuniting of The Fugees, the “BET Awards” has set the standard for can’t miss specials. Drake leads the list of entertainers with an impressive nine nominations including ‘Best Male Hip Hop Artist,’ ‘Video of the Year,’ and ‘Best Collaboration’ for his hit “Where Ya At” with fellow hip hop artist Future. Beyoncé and Rihanna follow with five nods each. Beyoncé is nominated for top nods of the night including ‘Best Female R&B/Pop Artist,’ ‘Video of the Year,’ and ‘Best Collaboration’ for “Feeling Myself” with Nicki Minaj. Rihanna is in the running ...

2018 BET Experience doesn’t kick off for another month, but the network has already struck a deal to ensure it sticks around for three more years. BET and Anschutz Entertainment Group have renewed their deal to continue the multi-day festival through 2018, a representative for the festival told The Times on Thursday. In 2018 the Black Entertainment Television network and AEG parterned to transform its annual awards show into a three-day destination festival in Los Angeles. AEG and promoter Goldenvoice, a division of AEG Live, helped curate a bill of top-tier R&B, soul and hip-hop artists. The festival pairs headlining concerts with late-night shows, wellness seminars, celebrity panels, new artist showcases, a film festival and a free expo along with a number other events at which revolve around the awards show telecast. Earlier this year, BET announced that this year’s festival, its third, would expand to four dates. Set for June 25-28, comedian Kevin Hart will open the festival wi...

It's finally time for the 2018 BET Awards and some of your favorite celebrities are arriving at the annual show to celebrate mass achievement in black entertainment. In addition to the highly anticipated musical tribute to Prince, stars including Usher, Alicia Keys and Future are scheduled to perform on stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Plus, a slew of familiar faces including Taraji P. Henson, Gabrielle Union and Snoop Dogg will present some of the biggest awards of the night. Before the show begins at 8 p.m. sharp, we're taking a look at the fun, wild and unpredictable red carpet fashion at this year's show. Based on what we've seen so far in our gallery below, we're in for one glitzy show.

We can always rely on Beyonce to bring the fierce to any proceedings and she did just that at last night's BET Awards 2018. The pop superstar rocked the stage in a blinged up bodysuit by British designer Julien Macdonald and she's giving us plenty of inspiration for our next big night out. Bodysuits have been a major trend for a while now but we love this more glammed up take. And who better to create a glitzy look like this than Macdonald? The designer is beloved for his super sexy, super slinky and super sparkly collections and Queen B's bodysuit even features actual Swarovski crystals. It was custom made so is unavailable to buy online but that doesn't mean you can't steal Bey's style. Check out our pick of embellished beauties below from the likes of Amen, NastyGal and True Decadance. Style with high waist denim shorts for a cool girl festival vibe or make it ladylike with a full midi skirt. The 34-year-old beauty looked absolutely fantastic in a black sequi...

The nominees and winners for the BET Award for Best Female Athlete & Male Athlete. Serena Williams holds the record for most wins in the Female Athlete category with 8 wins, she also holds the record for the most nominations, being nominated every year since the awards inception. LeBron James holds the records with 5 wins for Male Athlete. Kobe Bryant comes in second place with 3 awards. The Best Male Athlete has always been a basketball player until Michael Vick won it in 2011. Some of the nominations have brought up some controversy. Reggie Bush was nominated for the award twice, in 2007 and 2009, despite putting up average numbers for a player at his position in both those seasons. In both years, he was nominated among athletes who were considered the best of the best in their sports, which upset some sports fans, as Bush has not accomplished enough to be in the same list as them.

The BET Awards for Best Actor & Actress are awarded to actors and actresses from both television and film. Some nominees have been nominated based on their performances in multiple bodies of work within the eligibility period. 8 Academy Award-Winning Actors/Actress (Jennifer Hudson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Forest Whitaker,Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Mo'Nique, Jamie Foxx & Halle Berry), and 11 Academy Award nominated Actors/Actress (Gabourey Sidibe, Queen Latifah,Taraji P. Henson, Samuel L. Jackson, Terrence Howard, Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Will Smith, Viola Davis & Eddie Murphy) have earned BET Best Actor & Actress nominations and/or wins. This list also has 10 singer/rappers-turned-actors (Beyoncé, Aaliyah, Common, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Will Smith, Ludacris, Jill Scott, Jamal Woolard &Mos Def) nominated in these categories.

The BET Award for Best New Artist is given to an artist who made their debut the previous or same year of the awards ceremony. A former group member can be nominated for the award if they have made their solo debut. For example, Omarion was a member of the hip hop quartet B2K from 2001 until 2004 and B2K had already been nominated for a BET Award for Best New Artist in 2002. Despite this, Omarion was nominated for the category in 2005 because he made his solo debut in the same year. Controversy arose when Jennifer Hudson won the award in 2007 even though her only solo release at the time was a single of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"; her first album was scheduled for release in October 2007. Willow Smith is the youngest person to be nominated for this award. Sam Smith is so far the only Caucasian artist to have won the award, winning it in 2016.

The BET Award for Best Group is given to the overall best R&B, hip hop, or gospel group who has released an album the previous or same year. As of 2000, Mary Mary has been the only gospel group to be nominated for this award. A group can be a duo (Gnarls Barkley, Mary Mary, New Boyz) or have at least 3 members (Pretty Ricky, Destiny's Child). Mary Mary has received the most nominations ever for the BET Award for Best Group, having five each. Most Wins: Outkast with 3 wins including their win for Best Male Group. Destiny's Child have won in this category twice. Most nominations as of 2018: 1. Mary Mary, Outkast & Destiny's Child - 4 nominations 2. The Roots, Three 6 Mafia, Floetry, 112, Diddy – Dirty Money & Jagged Edge - 3 nominations 3. N.E.R.D., The Black Eyed Peas, The Clipse, Day26, Gnarls Barkley, Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz & B2K - 2 nominations

The BET Awards for Best R&B/Pop Artist is split between the overall best male and female contemporary R&B and soul singers who have released an album the previous or same year. As of 2016, Beyoncé has won the most BET Awards for Best Female R&B Artist with six wins. Also, as of 2016, Chris Brown has won the most BET Awards for Best Male R&B Artist with four wins. Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake are the only caucasian artists to be nominated for this award. Female Most Wins: Beyoncé has won six times in this category, with Alicia Keys winning three times. Most Nominations, as 2018: 1. Beyoncé - 9 nominations 2. Mary J. Blige - 8 nominations 3. Alicia Keys, & Rihanna - 6 nominations 4. Jennifer Hudson, Keyshia Cole, India.Arie, & Mariah Carey - 3 nominations 5. Keri Hilson, Jill Scott, Amerie, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu, Aaliyah, Marsha Ambrosius, Ciara, Melanie Fiona, & Tamar Braxton - 2 nominations Male Most Wins: Chris Brown has the most wins in this cat...

The BET Award for Best Gospel Artist is given to an urban contemporary gospel artist. Urban/contemporary gospel is a modern form of Christian music that expresses either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. Musically, it follows the trends in secular urban contemporary music. Urban/contemporary gospel is a recent subgenre of gospel music.Christian hip hop is a subtype of urban/contemporary gospel music. Although the style developed gradually, early forms are generally dated to the 1970s, and the genre was well established by the end of the 1980s. The radio format is marketed primarily to young African-American adults.

The "BET Award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist" and "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist" are awards given to honor the outstanding achievements artists have made in Hip hop every year. The winner is determined based on sales and overall quality of content released within the eligibility period. In 2007 there was no award given for "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist", there was only the "BET Award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist" which was renamed the gender-neutral title of "BET Award for Best Hip-Hop Artist". This was due to a lack of material from female rappers as a collective during the eligibility period. T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z, Drake, and Kendrick Lamar are the only rappers to win the "Best Male Hip-Hop Artist" more than once; Jay-Z, T.I., and Kendrick Lamar have each won twice and Kanye West and Drake have each won three times. T.I. is the only rapper to win the award consecutively, in 2006 and 2007. For "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist...

2018 BET Award categories: Hip Hop Gospel R&B Group New Artist Collaboration Music Video Viewer's Choice Centric Award Acting Movie Sports

Watch BET Awards Online. Designed to be the ultimate complement to the broadcast, The BET Awards Backstage will also be live at 7 p.m., ET/4 p.m., PT in the US on the WATCH ABC app for desktop and mobile devices. Presented again this year by Samsung Galaxy®, The BET Awards Backstage lets fans select from three channels that will pull from more than 20 live cameras strategically placed. There is a voting academy made up of about 500 people from the music industry, media, and bloggers. BET sends out ballots electronically and voters nominate in all the different categories who they think should be award nominees. These are collated by a group called "Yangaroo" that works on other awards shows as well, and they narrow it to the top five nominees, and send that list back out to the academy to vote on the winner.

What Time are the BET Awards 2018?  TIME: 8:00 p.m. EST/PT time delay DATE: June 28, 2018 CHANNEL: BET – Check your local TV provider (ie. FIOS, Optimum, Time Warner) to find out what channel the ABC network is on in your area. LOCATION: Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles

BET Awards Live are here!Panel of style, beauty, and entertainment experts is on duty to bring you live updates and commentary from the star-studded red carpet and awards stage. Stay with us from our 6:30 p.m. Welcome to 2018, when everyone’s afraid of superintelligent machines taking over the world and no one can run a half-decent live stream. Last month, NBC streamed the Super Bowl for free to anyone who wanted to watch. The execution was pretty terrible. But at least it was a noble effort. On Sunday night, ABC streamed the BET Awards—but only to people who were already paying for cable, and only if they happened to live in one of the eight U.S. cities in which ABC owns and operates a local station. Somehow, despite the tightly restricted audience, ABC’s execution was even worse.

Tonight is the 2018 BET Awards and the show is hosted by Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, who both star in the hit show Black-ish. Presenters include, but are not limited to Laverne Cox, Zendaya, Michael B. Jordan, Kelly Rowland, DeSean Jackson, Brandy, and Donald Glover. The major awards being handed out tonight include Smokey Robinson getting the Lifetime Achievement Award, radio show host Tom Joyner getting the Humanitarian Award, and Janet Jackson is being given the Ultimate Icon Award. Plus, Jackson will be taking the stage for a long-awaited performance. Additional performers include Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Robin Thicke, Janelle Monae, Meek Mill, Ne-Yo, Tyga, K. Michelle, Donnie McClurkin, Silento, Future, E-40, Anthony Hamilton, Gary Clark Jr. and Fetty Wap. To check out all the info on the show time, location, etc. read on below. TIME: 8:00 p.m. EST/PT time delay DATE: June 28, 2016 CHANNEL: BET – Check your local TV provider (ie. FIOS, Optimum, Time Warner) to find ou...

The 2018 BET Awards brought stars from all facets of entertainment and sports to the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 28. From Nicki Minaj and her mom Carol to Kelly Rowland, click the pics to see who stunned at the big event. The biggest night in black music, television, and film has arrived—which means stars from all corners of pop culture are descending on the 2018 BET Awards red carpet in Los Angeles. Performers and presenters include Nicki Minaj, Laverne Cox, and Ciara, who will be part of the night's biggest tribute to Janet Jackson. Check out the standout arrivals at the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live. by JACKIE STRAUSE

BET Awards Predictions 2018. We'd like to see how our predictions fare this time next year. BET Awards Nominations 2016BEST FEMALE R&B/POP ARTIST BEYONCÉ CIARA JANELLE MONÁE JHENÉ AIKO K. MICHELLE RIHANNA BEST MALE R&B/POP ARTIST AUGUST ALSINA CHRIS BROWN JOHN LEGEND THE WEEKND TREY SONGZ USHER BEST GROUP A$AP MOB JODECI MIGOS RAE SREMMURD RICH GANG YOUNG MONEY BEST COLLABORATION AUGUST ALSINA F/ NICKI MINAJ – NO LOVE (REMIX) BIG SEAN F/ E-40 – IDFWU CHRIS BROWN F/ LIL WAYNE & TYGA – LOYAL CHRIS BROWN F/ USHER & RICK ROSS – NEW FLAME COMMON & JOHN LEGEND – GLORY (FROM THE MOTION PICTURE “SELMA”) MARK RONSON F/ BRUNO MARS – UPTOWN FUNK BEST MALE HIP HOP ARTIST BIG SEAN COMMON DRAKE J. COLE KENDRICK LAMAR WALE BEST FEMALE HIP HOP ARTIST AZEALIA BANKS DEJ LOAF IGGY AZALEA NICKI MINAJ TINK TRINA VIDEO OF THE YEAR BEYONCÉ – 7/11 BIG SEAN F/ E-40 – IDFWU CHRIS BROWN F/ LIL WAYNE & TYGA – LOYAL CHRIS BROWN F/ USHER & RICK ROSS – NEW FLAME COMMON & JOHN...