Drake, Beyoncé, SZA & More Win Big At 2023 BET Awards: See The Full Winners

    Drake, Beyoncé and SZA have added more silverware to their respective trophy cabinets courtesy of the 2023 BET Awards.

    The annual awards show went down at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California on Sunday night (June 25), which proved to be another eventful night as cultural icons were celebrated, emerging legends were coronated and, in Quavo and Offset’s case, brotherhood was restored.

    Beyoncé and SZA were this year’s biggest winners with three awards each. Queen Bey’s Renaissance was crowned Album of the Year, while her “Break My Soul” music video took home the Viewer’s Choice and BET Her awards.

    SZA’s record-breaking SOS also won Album of the Year in a rare tie in the standout category, while her “Kill Bill” mini-movie claimed Video of the Year.

    The TDE songstress was also crowned Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, fending off stiff competition from Beyoncé, Lizzo, Ari Lennox, Tems, H.E.R. and Coco Jones — the latter of whom was named Best New Artist.

    As for Drake, the 6 God trailed closely behind with two wins: Best Group alongside his Her Loss cohort 21 Savage and Best Collaboration for his appearance on Future’s chart-topping hit “Wait For U,” which also featured Tems.

    Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar won Best Male Hip Hop Artist for a second year running, Chris Brown and Usher were jointly named Best Male R&B/Pop Artist and Latto beat out Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Ice Spice, GloRilla, Megan Thee Stallion and Coi Leray to the Best Female Hip Hop Artist award.

    During her televised acceptance speech, the “Big Energy” hitmaker saluted both her peers and the pioneers who paved the way, while also showing love to the female MCs who missed out on a nomination in the category.

    “I’m not gon’ cry this year,” Latto began, referencing her tearful Best New Artist victory at last year’s BET Awards. “Shout out to God. He be doing his big one on me! Shout out to all the other women in the category, all the women who paved the way for this to be even be possible, this category is going crazy this year.

    “Oh, shout out to some women who I think should have been in the category: Doechii — I love you, baby — Maiya The Don, Flo Milli, Mello Buckzz, TiaCorine. Shout out to all the women, we killin’ it. This is the year of the female, year of women. Hopefully we gon’ see an all-female tour very soon, you feel me?”

    “Momma, I love you. And my man, thank you to my man,” she added with a wry smile and sexually suggestive gesture, referencing the long-running speculation surrounding her love life.

    Check out the full list of 2023 BET Awards winners below:

    Album of the Year

    GloRilla — Anyways, Life’s Great
    Chris Brown — Breezy
    DJ Khaled — God Did
    Drake & 21 Savage — Her Loss
    Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
    Beyoncé — Renaissance — WINNER (Tie)
    SZA — SOS — WINNER (Tie)

    Best Female R&B/Pop Artist

    Ari Lennox
    Beyoncé
    Coco Jones
    H.E.R.
    Lizzo
    SZA — WINNER
    Tems

    Best Male R&B/Pop Artist

    Blxst
    Brent Faiyaz
    Burna Boy
    Chris Brown — WINNER (Tie)
    Drake
    The Weeknd
    Usher — WINNER (Tie)

    Best Group

    City Girls
    Drake & 21 Savage — WINNER
    Dvsn
    FLO
    Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin
    Quavo & TakeOff
    Wanmor

    Best Collaboration

    Latto & Mariah Carey f. DJ Khaled — “Big Energy (Remix)”
    Pinkpantheress & Ice Spice — “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2”
    Chris Brown f. Wizkid — “Call Me Every Day”
    King Combs f. Kodak Black — “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop”
    Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage — “Creepin’”
    Hitkidd & GloRilla — “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)”
    GloRilla & Cardi B — “Tomorrow 2”
    Future f. Drake & Tems — “Wait For U” — WINNER

    Best Female Hip Hop Artist

    Cardi B
    Coi Leray
    GloRilla
    Ice Spice
    Latto — WINNER
    Megan Thee Stallion
    Nicki Minaj

    Best Male Hip Hop Artist

    21 Savage
    Drake
    Future
    J. Cole
    Jack Harlow
    Kendrick Lamar — WINNER
    Lil Baby

    Video of the Year

    Chris Brown — “We (Warm Embrace)”
    Peezy, Jeezy & Real Boston Richey f. Rob49 — “2 Million Up”
    Lizzo — “About Damn Time”
    Steve Lacy — “Bad Habit”
    Jack Harlow — “First Class”
    SZA — “Kill Bill” — WINNER
    GloRilla & Cardi B — “Tomorrow 2”

    Video Director of the Year

    A$AP Rocky for AWGE
    Benny Boom
    Burna Boy
    Cole Bennett
    Dave Free & Kendrick Lamar
    Director X
    Teyana “Spike Tey” Taylor — WINNER

    Best New Artist

    Ambré
    Coco Jones — WINNER
    Doechii
    FLO
    GloRilla
    Ice Spice
    Lola Brooke

    Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational Award

    Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin — “Bless Me” — WINNER
    Tamela Mann — “Finished (Live)”
    CeCe Winans — “I’ve Got Joy”
    Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin f. Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore — “Kingdom”
    Tye Tribbett — “New”
    Yolanda Adams — “One Moment From Glory”
    PJ Morton f. Lisa Knowles-Smith, Le’andria Johnson, Keke Wyatt, Kierra Sheard & Tasha Cobbs Leonard — “The Better Benediction (Pt. 2)”

    Viewer’s Choice Award

    Lizzo — “About Damn Time”
    Beyoncé — “Break My Soul” — WINNER
    Jack Harlow — “First Class”
    Drake f. 21 Savage — “Jimmy Cooks”
    SZA — “Kill Bill”
    Burna Boy — “Last Last”
    Nicki Minaj — “Super Freaky Girl”
    Future f. Drake & Tems — “Wait For U”

    Best International Act

    Aya Nakamura (France)
    Ayra Starr (Nigeria)
    Burna Boy (Nigeria) — WINNER
    Central Cee (UK)
    Ella Mai (UK)
    Ko (South Africa)
    L7nnon (Brazil)
    Stormzy (UK)
    Tiakola (France)
    Uncle Waffles (Swaziland)

    Viewer’s Choice: Best New International Act

    Asake (Nigeria)
    Camidoh (Ghana)
    Flo (UK)
    Libianca (Cameroon) — WINNER
    Maureen (France)
    MC Ryan SP (Brazil)
    Pabi Cooper (South Africa)
    Raye (UK)
    Werenoi (France)

    BET Her

    Lizzo — “About Damn Time”
    Pinkpantheress & Ice Spice — “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2”
    Beyoncé — “Break My Soul” — WINNER
    Megan Thee Stallion — “Her”
    Rihanna & Ludwig Göransson — “Lift Me Up”
    Coi Leray — “Players”
    Lizzo — “Special”

    Best Movie

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — WINNER
    Creed III
    Emancipation
    Nope
    The Woman King
    Till
    Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody

    Best Actor

    Amin Joseph
    Brian Tyree Henry
    Damson Idris — WINNER
    Daniel Kaluuya
    Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr.
    Donald Glover
    Michael B. Jordan

    Best Actress

    Angela Bassett — WINNER
    Coco Jones
    Janelle James
    Janelle Monáe
    Keke Palmer
    Viola Davis
    Zendaya

    Youngstars Award

    Akira Akbar
    Alaya High
    Demi Singleton
    Genesis Denise
    Marsai Martin — WINNER
    Thaddeus J. Mixson
    Young Dylan

    Sportswoman of the Year Award

    Alexis Morris
    Allyson Felix
    Angel Reese — WINNER
    Candace Parker
    Naomi Osaka
    Serena Williams
    Sha’Carri Richardson

    Sportsman of the Year Award

    Aaron Judge
    Bubba Wallace
    Gervonta Davis
    Jalen Hurts — WINNER
    LeBron James
    Patrick Mahomes
    Steph Curry

    6 thoughts on “Drake, Beyoncé, SZA & More Win Big At 2023 BET Awards: See The Full Winners

    1. i keep saying this every year it isn’t the beyonce and drake show okay so black entertainment black entertainment isn’t just all about them

    2. In no way in the world should their ever be a tie ever at a awards show, their should at least always be a tie breaker
      Another reason why people can’t take BET serious. Beyonce album wasn’t good at all and honestly even though she has talent all of her albums are unimpressive. She has some good songs like me, myself and I is one of my favorite rnb songs ever, but her albums are always a massive disappointment in terms of quality for me. These women like Summer Walker, H.E.R, Jhene Aiko, Sza, Ella Mai, are making way better music than Beyonce and people don’t want to be honest about it. It was no way her album was anywhere close to Sza album. Also thought Kendrick album was better than Beyonce’s as well

    3. Notice how much shit jack Harlow was nominated for. It can’t be anymore obvious he’s an industry plant

    4. Yeah they need to stop nominating Drake and Beyoncé for BET awards. No time for black events but will show up early to all the rich parties in Europe. Not that hard to stop including them, they could probably care less.

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