Tonight the British music industry packaged their self-image for all to YouTube. The nominations were very Duffy with a side of Coldplay, and Duffy wound up being the main dish, but poor Chris Martin & Band couldn't follow their three-statue Grammy night with even a single award from their four nominations. Instead it's [SPOILER] Kings Of Leon that's the rock band the BRITs love. Biggest props went to Duffy, KoL, Pet Shop Boys, and Not Katy Perry Hello Kitty dress (although she has a cat named Kitty Purry and that's funny). David Hasselhoff was there, Brandon Flowers came out on "It's A Sin" during the Pet Shop Boys medley, obvs to both. The award show ended tonight around 11:30PM in the future in the UK, so clips and photos are now starting to spill their way through the internet. We've got 'em alongside a full winner's list and a guylinered Bono doing "Get On Your Boots" for hopefully the last time on television. Enjoy!
BRIT AWARDS 2009 WINNERS
Best British Female
Duffy
(Also nominated: Adele, Beth Rowley, Estelle, M.I.A.)
Best international female winner
Katy Perry
(Also nominated Beyonce, Gabriella Cilmi, Pink, Santigold)
Best British breakthrough act (Winner chosen by BBC Radio 1
listeners)
Duffy
(Also nominated: Adele, Last Shadow Puppets, Scouting for Girls, The Ting Tings)
Best international group
Kings of Leon
(Also nominated: AC/DC, Fleet Foxes, Killers, MGMT.)
Best British male winner
Paul Weller
(Also nominated: Ian Brown, James Morrison, The Streets, Will Young.)
Best international album
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
(Also nominated: AC/DC - Black Ice; Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes; The Killers - Day & Age; MGMT - Oracular Spectacular)
Best British live act (Winner chosen by BBC Radio 2 listeners)
Iron Maiden
(Also nominated: Coldplay, Elbow, Scouting for Girls, The Verve)
Best British group winner
Elbow
(Also nominated: Coldplay, Girls Aloud, Radiohead, Take That)
Critics' Choice
Florence and the Machine.
Best international male
Kanye West
(Also nominated: Beck, Neil Diamond, Jay-Z, Seasick Steve)
Best British single (Decided by live public phone-in)
Girls Aloud, "The Promise"
(Also nominated: Coldplay, "Viva La Vida"; Duffy - "Mercy";Leona Lewis - "Better in Time"; Scouting for Girls - "Heartbeat")
Mastercard Best British Album
Duffy - Rockferry
(Also nominated: Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends; Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid; Radiohead - In
Rainbows; The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing)
Producer of the year
Bernard Butler
(Also nominated: Brian Eno, Steve Mac)
Outstanding Contribution to Music
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys Medley (Feat. Brandon Flowers & Lady GaGa)
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U2 - "Get On Your Boots"
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Kings Of Leon - "Use Somebody"
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Estelle & The Ting Tings Mash "Shut Up And Let Me Go" & "American Boy" And Then Do "That's Not My Name"
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Kylie Minogue, Mathew Horne and James Corden On "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" Sort Of
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Iron Maiden Accept For Best Live Act
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