Justin Timberlake, Selena Gomez, Bruno Mars Win Big At VMAs

Young Latina singer-actress Selena Gomez  received the first award at Sunday night’s  MTV Video Music Awards for her summer hit “Come and Get it,” beating out Justin  Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Fun and Miley Cyrus. “This has been such a great year for me,” said Gomez after boy-band One  Direction gave her the award. “I would not have done it without you guys. So  thank you so much. This is so cool.” This was the first Moonman Award for the singer and she looked sophisticated and stunning as she humbly accepted the award.

Although Mars lost to Gomez he still made out with two other awards at the show. He won best male video for “Locked Out of Heaven” and  choreography for “Treasure,” beating out the likes of Jennifer Lopez,  Timberlake, will.i.am and others. “Locked Out of Heaven” was also nominated for Video of the Year. Mars well deserved the awards after dealing with the loss of his mother earlier this year.

Despite Gomez and Mars huge awards Miley Cyrus had the most memorable  moment at the awards show.  The 20-year-old even  grabbed more attention than Justin Timberlake’s performance with his ‘N Sync  band mates. Cyrus twerked and gyrated, stripped and swayed. The awkward performance received both positive and negative attention from fellow members in the audience as well as 4.5 million mentions on social network sites. “Amazing. I thought it was awesome,” Gomez said of Cyrus’ performance  backstage.

Timberlake‘s  fell below Cyrus mentions over social media with 2.9 million mentions, however the pop star earned three awards, including video of the year and best male  video for “Mirrors.” As Timberlake performed a medley of his solo hits, JC Chasez, Lance Bass,  Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick emerged from the bottom of the stage in suits  to sing some lines from their hits “Girlfriend” and “Bye, Bye, Bye.” Gomez,  Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and possibly the entire venue were giddy as the boy band  danced like they did a decade ago. Even rappers Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J admitted  on the red carpet they were excited to see ‘N Sync hit the stage.

“Half of the moonmen I’ve ever won, I won with those four guys right there,”  Timberlake said of his band mates when he accepted the Michael Jackson Video  Vanguard award. “So above all else, I’m going to share this — we can keep it my  house — but I’m going to share this award with them.”