BET Award 2018 Athlete of the Year

The nominees and winners for the BET Award for Best Female Athlete & Male Athlete. Serena Williams holds the record for most wins in the Female Athlete category with 8 wins, she also holds the record for the most nominations, being nominated every year since the awards inception. LeBron James holds the records with 5 wins for Male Athlete. Kobe Bryant comes in second place with 3 awards. The Best Male Athlete has always been a basketball player until Michael Vick won it in 2011.

Some of the nominations have brought up some controversy. Reggie Bush was nominated for the award twice, in 2007 and 2009, despite putting up average numbers for a player at his position in both those seasons. In both years, he was nominated among athletes who were considered the best of the best in their sports, which upset some sports fans, as Bush has not accomplished enough to be in the same list as them.

BET Award 2018 Best Actor & Actress

The BET Awards for Best Actor & Actress are awarded to actors and actresses from both television and film. Some nominees have been nominated based on their performances in multiple bodies of work within the eligibility period. 8 Academy Award-Winning Actors/Actress (Jennifer Hudson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Forest Whitaker,Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Mo'Nique, Jamie Foxx & Halle Berry), and 11 Academy Award nominated Actors/Actress (Gabourey Sidibe, Queen Latifah,Taraji P. Henson, Samuel L. Jackson, Terrence Howard, Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Will Smith, Viola Davis & Eddie Murphy) have earned BET Best Actor & Actress nominations and/or wins.

This list also has 10 singer/rappers-turned-actors (Beyoncé, Aaliyah, Common, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Will Smith, Ludacris, Jill Scott, Jamal Woolard &Mos Def) nominated in these categories.

BET Award 2018 Best New Artist

The BET Award for Best New Artist is given to an artist who made their debut the previous or same year of the awards ceremony. A former group member can be nominated for the award if they have made their solo debut. For example, Omarion was a member of the hip hop quartet B2K from 2001 until 2004 and B2K had already been nominated for a BET Award for Best New Artist in 2002. Despite this, Omarion was nominated for the category in 2005 because he made his solo debut in the same year. Controversy arose when Jennifer Hudson won the award in 2007 even though her only solo release at the time was a single of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"; her first album was scheduled for release in October 2007. Willow Smith is the youngest person to be nominated for this award. Sam Smith is so far the only Caucasian artist to have won the award, winning it in 2016.

BET Award 2018 Best Group

The BET Award for Best Group is given to the overall best R&B, hip hop, or gospel group who has released an album the previous or same year. As of 2000, Mary Mary has been the only gospel group to be nominated for this award. A group can be a duo (Gnarls Barkley, Mary Mary, New Boyz) or have at least 3 members (Pretty Ricky, Destiny's Child). Mary Mary has received the most nominations ever for the BET Award for Best Group, having five each.

Most Wins: Outkast with 3 wins including their win for Best Male Group. Destiny's Child have won in this category twice.
Most nominations as of 2018:
1. Mary Mary, Outkast & Destiny's Child - 4 nominations
2. The Roots, Three 6 Mafia, Floetry, 112, Diddy – Dirty Money & Jagged Edge - 3 nominations
3. N.E.R.D., The Black Eyed Peas, The Clipse, Day26, Gnarls Barkley, Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz & B2K - 2 nominations

BET Award 2018 Best R&B Artists

The BET Awards for Best R&B/Pop Artist is split between the overall best male and female contemporary R&B and soul singers who have released an album the previous or same year. As of 2016, Beyoncé has won the most BET Awards for Best Female R&B Artist with six wins. Also, as of 2016, Chris Brown has won the most BET Awards for Best Male R&B Artist with four wins. Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake are the only caucasian artists to be nominated for this award.

Female
Most Wins: Beyoncé has won six times in this category, with Alicia Keys winning three times.
Most Nominations, as 2018:
1. Beyoncé - 9 nominations
2. Mary J. Blige - 8 nominations
3. Alicia Keys, & Rihanna - 6 nominations
4. Jennifer Hudson, Keyshia Cole, India.Arie, & Mariah Carey - 3 nominations
5. Keri Hilson, Jill Scott, Amerie, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu, Aaliyah, Marsha Ambrosius, Ciara, Melanie Fiona, & Tamar Braxton - 2 nominations

Male
Most Wins: Chris Brown has the most wins in this category with four, as Usher comes second with three wins. Both however lead the most nominations with eight.
Most nominations as of 2018,
1. Usher & Chris Brown - 8 nominations
2. Trey Songz - 5 nominations
3. Ne-Yo & John Legend - 4 nominations
4. Maxwell, Anthony Hamilton, R. Kelly, Musiq Soulchild, Bruno Mars & Justin Timberlake - 3 nominations
5. Raheem DeVaughn, Jamie Foxx, Prince, Jaheim, Miguel (singer) & August Alsina - 2 nominations

BET Award 2018 Best Gospel Artists

The BET Award for Best Gospel Artist is given to an urban contemporary gospel artist. Urban/contemporary gospel is a modern form of Christian music that expresses either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. Musically, it follows the trends in secular urban contemporary music. Urban/contemporary gospel is a recent subgenre of gospel music.Christian hip hop is a subtype of urban/contemporary gospel music.

Although the style developed gradually, early forms are generally dated to the 1970s, and the genre was well established by the end of the 1980s. The radio format is marketed primarily to young African-American adults.

BET Award 2018 Best Hip-Hop Artists

The "BET Award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist" and "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist" are awards given to honor the outstanding achievements artists have made in Hip hop every year. The winner is determined based on sales and overall quality of content released within the eligibility period. In 2007 there was no award given for "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist", there was only the "BET Award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist" which was renamed the gender-neutral title of "BET Award for Best Hip-Hop Artist". This was due to a lack of material from female rappers as a collective during the eligibility period.

T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z, Drake, and Kendrick Lamar are the only rappers to win the "Best Male Hip-Hop Artist" more than once; Jay-Z, T.I., and Kendrick Lamar have each won twice and Kanye West and Drake have each won three times. T.I. is the only rapper to win the award consecutively, in 2006 and 2007. For "Best Female Hip-Hop Artist", only Missy Elliot and Nicki Minaj have attained multiple victories, both winning the award back to back, with Elliot winning from 2003 to 2005and Minaj winning from 2010 to 2016, respectively. Minaj is the first and only rapper to win "Best Hip-Hop Artist", for both male and females, 6 years in a row consecutively.

What Time are the BET Awards 2018?

What Time are the BET Awards 2018?  TIME: 8:00 p.m. EST/PT time delay

DATE: June 28, 2018

CHANNEL: BET – Check your local TV provider (ie. FIOS, Optimum, Time Warner) to find out what channel the ABC network is on in your area.

LOCATION: Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles

BET Awards Predictions 2018

BET Awards Predictions 2018. We'd like to see how our predictions fare this time next year.

BET Awards Nominations 2016BEST FEMALE R&B/POP ARTIST
BEYONCÉ
CIARA
JANELLE MONÁE
JHENÉ AIKO
K. MICHELLE
RIHANNA

BEST MALE R&B/POP ARTIST
AUGUST ALSINA
CHRIS BROWN
JOHN LEGEND
THE WEEKND
TREY SONGZ
USHER

BEST GROUP
A$AP MOB
JODECI
MIGOS
RAE SREMMURD
RICH GANG
YOUNG MONEY

BEST COLLABORATION
AUGUST ALSINA F/ NICKI MINAJ – NO LOVE (REMIX)
BIG SEAN F/ E-40 – IDFWU
CHRIS BROWN F/ LIL WAYNE & TYGA – LOYAL
CHRIS BROWN F/ USHER & RICK ROSS – NEW FLAME
COMMON & JOHN LEGEND – GLORY (FROM THE MOTION PICTURE “SELMA”)
MARK RONSON F/ BRUNO MARS – UPTOWN FUNK

BEST MALE HIP HOP ARTIST
BIG SEAN
COMMON
DRAKE
J. COLE
KENDRICK LAMAR
WALE

BEST FEMALE HIP HOP ARTIST
AZEALIA BANKS
DEJ LOAF
IGGY AZALEA
NICKI MINAJ
TINK
TRINA

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
BEYONCÉ – 7/11
BIG SEAN F/ E-40 – IDFWU
CHRIS BROWN F/ LIL WAYNE & TYGA – LOYAL
CHRIS BROWN F/ USHER & RICK ROSS – NEW FLAME
COMMON & JOHN LEGEND – GLORY (FROM THE MOTION PICTURE “SELMA”)
NICKI MINAJ – ANACONDA

VIDEO DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
BENNY BOOM
BEYONCÉ, ED BURKE & TODD TOURSO
CHRIS ROBINSON
FATIMA ROBINSON
HYPE WILLIAMS

BEST NEW ARTIST
BOBBY SHMURDA
DEJ LOAF
FETTY WAP
RAE SREMMURD
SAM SMITH
TINASHE

BEST GOSPEL ARTIST
DEITRICK HADDON
ERICA CAMPBELL
FRED HAMMOND
LECRAE
MALI MUSIC
MICHELLE WILLIAMS

BEST ACTRESS
GABRIELLE UNION
KERRY WASHINGTON
TARAJI P. HENSON
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS
VIOLA DAVIS

BEST ACTOR
ANTHONY ANDERSON
IDRIS ELBA
JUSSIE SMOLLETT
KEVIN HART
TERRENCE HOWARD

YOUNGSTARS AWARD
JACOB LATIMORE
JADEN SMITH
MO’NE DAVIS
QUVENZHANÉ WALLIS
ZENDAYA

BEST MOVIE
ANNIE
BEYOND THE LIGHTS
SELMA
THINK LIKE A MAN TOO
TOP FIVE

SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR
BRITTNEY GRINER
CANDACE PARKER
SERENA WILLIAMS
SKYLAR DIGGINS
VENUS WILLIAMS

SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR
CHRIS PAUL
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
LEBRON JAMES
MARSHAWN LYNCH
STEPHEN CURRY

COCA-COLA VIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARD
BEYONCÉ – 7/11
DEJ LOAF – TRY ME
KENDRICK LAMAR – i
NICKI MINAJ F/ DRAKE, LIL WAYNE & CHRIS BROWN – ONLY
RAE SREMMURD F/ NICKI MINAJ & YOUNG THUG – THROW SUM MO
THE WEEKND – EARNED IT (FROM THE “FIFTY SHADES OF GREY” SOUNDTRACK)

CENTRIC AWARD
AVERY SUNSHINE – CALL MY NAME
JAZMINE SULLIVAN F/ MEEK MILL – DUMB
MARK RONSON F/ BRUNO MARS – UPTOWN FUNK
SAM SMITH F/ MARY J. BLIGE – STAY WITH ME
THE WEEKND – EARNED IT (FROM THE “FIFTY SHADES OF GREY” SOUNDTRACK)

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT: AFRICA
AKA (SOUTH AFRICA)
FALLY IPUPA (DR CONGO)
SARKODIE (GHANA)
SAUTI SOL (KENYA)
STONEBWOY (GHANA)
THE SOIL (SOUTH AFRICA)
WIZKID (NIGERIA)
YEMI ALADE (NIGERIA)

BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT: UK
FKA TWIGS
FUSE ODG
LETHAL BIZZLE
LITTLE SIMZ
MNEK
STORMZY