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Green Day dominate 2005 MTV Awards

Green Day - Big winners on the night in Miami
Green Day - Big winners on the night in Miami

Green Day were the big winners at the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami last night.

The band won the awards for Video of the Year, Best Group Video and Best Rock Video for 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', while the promo also took the awards for Best Direction, Best Cinematography (both Samuel Bayer) and Best Editing (Tom Royes).

"It's nice to know rock music still has a place at MTV," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said while accepting the Best Rock Video award.

Green Day, who opened the live ceremony, also won the Viewers' Choice Award for the video for 'American Idiot'.

Kelly Clarkson won the awards for Best Female Video and Best Pop Video for 'Since U Been Gone' and Missy Elliott won Best Hip-Hop Video and Best Dance Video for 'Lose Control'.

Kanye West won the Best Male Video award for 'Jesus Walks'; Ludacris was the winner of Best Rap Video for 'Number One Spot' and the Best R&B Video award went to Alicia Keys for 'Karma'.

The Killers won the Best New Artist in a Video award for 'Mr Brightside' and Gorillaz's 'Feel Good Inc' took the awards for Breakthrough Video and Best Special Effects in a Video.

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