Jack Black named as MTV awards host
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The MTV Music Video Awards are about to get a dose of Jack Black. The actor-slash-rocker will host this year's version of the anything-can-happen extravaganza, set for Aug. 31, MTV announced Thursday.
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Amy Winehouse will not attend this year's Grammy Awards because her request for a visa was denied, but she will perform by satellite at Sunday's ceremony in Los Angeles. Winehouse and her acclaimed "Back to Black" album are nominated for Grammys in six categories.
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Jessica Simpson is co-hosting the Teen Choice awards on August 20th and is up for two awards: Choice Hottie and Choice Movie Breakout Performance for the Dukes of Hazzard. In related news, Nick Lachey is also up for an award as well as his new girl, Va...
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The stars will be shining bright at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. The Beastie Boys, Evanescence's Amy Lee, Brandy, Queen Latifah and John Mellencamp are now set to appear at the Aug. 29 awards show, the music channel announced Thursday.
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Singer Imogen Heap and the Artic Monkeys top the nomination list for this year's mtvU's Woodie Awards, scheduled for next month in New York.  An MTV news release said at the awards ceremony on Oct.
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MIAMI - An already broiling Miami had even more sizzle on Sunday as MTV brought the annual party known as the Video Music Awards to the city for the first time in the awards' 21-year history.    The change of scenery for the awards, typically held in New York or Los Angeles, helped raise the decadence level at the already raucous, celebrity-soaked affair...
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US comedian Chris Rock is to host the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood in February 2005, organisers reveal.
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For the first time since the heyday of grunge in the &#39;90s, a Seattle band is nominated for multiple MTV Video Music Awards, to be broadcast at 8 tonight on MTV.
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LOS ANGELES  - Following his role as a hired killer in &quot;Collateral,&quot; Tom Cruise will host this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize concert.
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Stars come down with style at the MTV awards!
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Hip-hop group Outkast has landed five nominations in next month's MTV Europe Music Awards, organizers said Wednesday. Another artist from Atlanta &#151; singer Usher &#151; is up for four awards.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers were nominated in four categories, including best album, for the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, to be hosted by Justin Timberlake on Nov. 2.
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On FOX Wednesday night at 8pm the annual teen choice awards took place. The event was hosted by Paris Hilton and Nicole Riche. Some of the highlights of the evening included a kick butt performance by Lenny Kravitz, leatherface (from Texas Chainsaw Mas...
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Pop stars Justin Timberlake and Beyonce led the nominations for the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday with seven apiece, followed by rapper Kanye West and Barbados teen-ager Rihanna who are both up for five awards.
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Actor Jack Black stars in a comical and nostalgic tribute to the pioneers of cinema and jazz in "Be Kind Rewind", which brings the 2008 Berlin Film Festival to a fitting close on Saturday.
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Comedian actor Chris Rock has been chosen as the host of the 77th Oscars awarding ceremony next year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Amp'd Mobile has announced  development deals with actor/musician Jack Black, "24"  executive producer Howard Gordon and others to produce original  content for the mobile entertainment carrier in 2007.