A year after her disastrous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears was the big winner at the 2008 ceremony on Sunday night.
Spears won in all three categories in which she was nominated.
She received the awards for Video of the Year, Best Pop Video and Best Female Video, all for 'Piece of Me'.
Accepting her first award, Spears said she wanted to "thank God first and foremost for just blessing me like this".
She went on to thank her "beautiful family" and her "two beautiful boys for just inspiring me every day".
The singer dedicated the awards to her fans.
Spears opened the awards showing by saying: "Thank you so much. Thank you for all the love. I'm here tonight to celebrate a very important birthday, the 25th anniversary of the VMAs. This is the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards and it starts right now."
The award for Best Male Video went to Chris Brown for 'With You'; Lil Wayne won Best Hip-Hop Video for 'Lollipop' and Linkin Park won Best Rock Video for 'Shadow of the Day'.
Tokio Hotel took the award for Best New Artist while the Best Dancing in a Video award went to the Pussycat Dolls for 'When I Grow Up'.
