2005 MTV Video Music Awards

The 2005 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on August 28, 2005, honoring the best music videos from the previous year. The show was hosted by Diddy at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. The big winner of the night was Green Day, who took home seven VMA's, including Best Rock Video, Best Group Video, Viewer's Choice, and Video of the Year.

Although the approach of a strong tropical storm (which became Hurricane Katrina prior to its first landfall just north of Miami) cancelled much of the pre-show activities, the show itself went on as scheduled after the storm passed. Later that year, the MTV VMAs for Latin America, scheduled for Cancún, were canceled due to Hurricane Wilma (which later made an identical but reverse path across South Florida as Katrina did).

Background
MTV announced on April 5 that the 2005 Video Music Awards would be held on August 28 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, marking the venue's second consecutive year hosting the ceremony. Nominees were announced on July 25 at a press conference hosted by Kelly Clarkson, Kanye West, and Diddy in Miami. At the same press conference, MTV announced that Diddy would host the ceremony. The ceremony had a water theme, with several water features constructed for the ceremony by WET. The ceremony broadcast was preceded by the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards Pre-Show by the Shore. Hosted by Kurt Loder and SuChin Pak with reports from John Norris, Sway, and Gideon Yago, the broadcast featured red carpet interviews and performances by Mike Jones featuring Slim Thug and Paul Wall, Rihanna, and Fall Out Boy. The ceremony was also the first to expand beyond linear television with a "My VMAs" channel on MTV Overdrive featuring bonus material both before and after the ceremony. It also was one of the first to have a 16:9 format.

Pre-show

 * Kurt Loder – introduced the winners of the professional categories
 * SuChin Pak – announced the winners of Best Group Video and Best Video Game Soundtrack

Main show

 * Nelly and Lindsay Lohan – presented Best Female Video and Best Male Video
 * Beavis and Butt-head – appeared in different vignettes about voting procedures for the Viewer's Choice award
 * Ciara and Missy Elliott – introduced Ludacris and Bobby Valentino
 * Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst – presented Best Rock Video
 * Grandmaster Flash – DJed after some commercial breaks and during the "dance-off" sequence
 * Omarion and Luke (from 2 Live Crew) – appeared in a "dance-off" sequence with Diddy
 * Ashlee and Jessica Simpson – presented Best R&B Video
 * Jessica Alba, Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal – introduced Shakira and Alejandro Sanz
 * Usher – introduced a "Clowning vs. Krumping" dance sequence and presented Best Dance Video
 * Eric Roberts – introduced R. Kelly
 * Hilary Duff and Joel Madden – introduced the Killers
 * Lil' Kim and Jeremy Piven – presented Best Rap Video
 * Common and Johnny Knoxville – presented the MTV2 Award
 * Fat Joe – introduced the reggaeton performances and presented Best Hip-Hop Video
 * Pharrell – introduced Coldplay
 * B5 – introduced the next pair of presenters
 * Ricky Martin and Joss Stone – presented Best Pop Video
 * Alicia Keys and John Legend – introduced Kanye West and Jamie Foxx
 * Snoop Dogg – introduced Dane Cook, who performed a short comic monologue, and presented Best New Artist in a Video with him
 * Eva Longoria – introduced Mariah Carey
 * Lil Jon and Paulina Rubio – presented Breakthrough Video
 * Fergie and will.i.am – introduced 50 Cent
 * Bow Wow and Paris Hilton – presented Viewer's Choice
 * Jamie Foxx – introduced Destiny's Child and presented Video of the Year with them

Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold text.

Music
The music for the telecast was scored by Linkin Park's co-vocalist Mike Shinoda and rapper Lil Jon. The score was released as an EP on August 31, 2005, and later released by Shinoda five years later on March 1, 2010.