2009 MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Awards 2009 took place in Berlin, Germany at the O2 World and Brandenburg Gate on 5 November 2009. The awards ceremony was presented by Katy Perry for a 2nd consecutive year. It was the fourth time that the MTV Europe Music Awards were hosted in Germany and the second time that they were hosted in Berlin, since the inaugural edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards also took place there. Thus Berlin became the first city to host the event twice.
Nominations for regional awards were announced on 1 September 2009, followed by those of the main awards on September 21, 2009. Pete Wentz was the host for the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards webcast.
Though the MTV EMAs have traditionally been advertised as Europe's premiere music event, few European artists received nominations in key categories.
The 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards logo and promos were designed in-house by MTV World Design Studio in Milan and Buenos Aires with additional input by Swedish graphic design company Kungen & Hertigen.

Nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Regional nominations

Winners are in bold text.

Best Adria Act	Best Baltic Act
Lollobrigida Girls Darkwood Dub Dubioza Kolektiv Elvis Jackson Superhiks	Leon Somov & Jazzu Chungin & the Cats of Destiny DJ Ella Flamingo Popidiot
Best Danish Act	Best Dutch & Belgian Act
Medina Dúné Jooks L.O.C. Outlandish	Esmée Denters Alain Clark Fedde le Grand Milow The Black Box Revelation
Best Finnish Act	Best French Act
Deep Insight Apulanta Cheek Disco Ensemble Happoradio	Orelsan David Guetta Olivia Ruiz Rohff Sliimy
Best German Act	Best Greek Act
Silbermond Jan Delay Peter Fox Söhne Mannheims Sportfreunde Stiller	Helena Paparizou Matisse Monika Onirama Professional Sinnerz
Best Hungarian Act	Best Israeli Act
The Kolin Esclin Syndo The Idoru The Moog Zagar	Ninet Tayeb Assaf Amdursky Asaf Avidan & the Mojos Infected Mushroom Terry Poison
Best Italian Act	Best Norwegian Act
Lost Giusy Ferreri J-Ax Tiziano Ferro Zero Assoluto	Yoga Fire Donkeyboy Maria Mena Paperboys Röyksopp
Best Polish Act	Best Portuguese Act
Doda Afromental Ania Dąbrowska Ewa Farna Jamal	Xutos e Pontapés Buraka Som Sistema David Fonseca Os Pontos Negros X-Wife
Best Romanian Act	Best Russian Act
Inna David Deejay Puya Smiley Tom Boxer	Dima Bilan Centr Kasta Sergey Lazarev Timati
Best Spanish Act	Best Swedish Act
We Are Standard Fangoria Macaco Nena Daconte Russian Red	Agnes Adiam Dymott Darin Mando Diao Promoe
Best Swiss Act	Best Turkish Act
Stress Lovebugs Phenomden Ritschi Seven	Manga Atiye Deniz Bedük Kenan Doğulu Nil Karaibrahimgil
Best Ukrainian Act	Best UK & Ireland New Act
Green Grey Antytila Druha Rika Kamon!!! Lama	Pixie Lott Florence and the Machine La Roux The Saturdays Tinchy Stryder
Best Arabian Act
Joe Ashkar Amr Mostafa Darine Hadchiti Ramy Sabry Rashed Al-Majed

Performances

Green Day — "Know Your Enemy" / "Minority"
Katy Perry — "I Gotta Feeling" / "When Love Takes Over" / "Use Somebody" / "Halo" / "Poker Face"
Beyoncé — "Sweet Dreams"
Jay-Z and Bridget Kelly — "Empire State of Mind"
Foo Fighters — "Wheels" / "All My Life"
U2 — "One" / "Magnificent"
Shakira — "Did It Again"
Tokio Hotel — "World Behind My Wall"
Leona Lewis — "Happy"
U2 and Jay-Z — "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

Appearances

Pete Wentz and Bar Refaeli — presented Best Live Act
Joss Stone and Wladimir Klitschko — presented Best Urban
David Hasselhoff — presented Best Rock
Dave Bautista — presented Best Song
Juliette Lewis and Gillian Deegan — presented Best Alternative
Lil' Kim — presented Best New Act
Jean Reno — presented Best Male
Jonas Brothers — introduced the Michael Jackson tribute
Joko Winterscheidt and Matthias Schweighöfer — presented Best German Act
Backstreet Boys — presented Best European Act
Jesse Metcalfe — presented Best Group
David Guetta and Asia Argento — presented Best Female
Miranda Cosgrove and Brody Jenner — presented Best Video