The Young Hollywood Awards is an award presented annually which honors the year's biggest achievements in music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, movies, sports, television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, fashion

Fashion

Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...

 and more, as voted on by teenagers aged 13–19 and young adults. The award ceremonies also honor rising and promising young aged performers in Hollywood. The award ceremony usually features a high number of celebrities and musical performers such as Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...

, Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber

Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop/R&B singer, songwriter and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager...

, and Nick Jonas

Nick Jonas

Nicholas Jerry "Nick" Jonas is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band he formed with his brothers Joe and Kevin. The Jonas Brothers originally started as an attempted solo singing career for Nick, but the record producer liked the...

. New artists such as Black Cards

Black Cards

Black Cards is an American electropop band formed in July 2010 as Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz's new main project following the group's indefinite break. The band is composed of vocalist Bebe Rexha, bassist Pete Wentz, drummer Spencer Peterson and guitarist Nate Patterson...

have also performed.

The Young Hollywood Awards was started in 1999. and in 2011 the Young Hollywood Awards will be held on Friday May 20th.

Categories

In the 2010 awards, the following categories were present:

• Young Hollywood Newcomer of the Year
• Young Hollywood Artist of the Year
• Young Hollywood Superstar in the Making
• Young Hollywood Breakthrough of the Year
• Young Hollywood Comedian of the Year
• Young Hollywood Cast to Watch
• Young Hollywood Making their Mark
• Young Hollywood Style Icon

The categories which have been removed from the awards are Superstar of Tomorrow and Best Rolemodel.

External links

• The award's official site - The Young Hollywood Awards' official website