Reigning award-show queen Taylor Swift was this year's big nominee with six nods, and if she'd swept the board she would have become the AMAs most decorated winner (overtaking Whitney Houston).
The night's other big nominee is Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" with 11 nominations.
Other big nominees include the Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West and Maxwell, with six nods each, and Jay-Z and the French D.J. David Guetta, each getting five nominations.
Other big nominees that have crept up on us are Spotlight, Trumbo and The Big Short, three true-life stories from the US which have impressed Bafta voters even though these films have yet to be released in British cinemas.
Many of the big nominees - Mad Men's Jon Hamm, 30 Rock's Tina Fey and Dexter's Michael C Hall - are returning favourites.
Martin Garrix, Avicii and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are among the big nominees for the 2014 Beatport Awards.
Viewers can expect big things from this year's big nominees, which include "Game of Thrones," "House of Cards," "Fargo," "People v. O.J. Simpson," "black-ish," "Veep" and more.
Steve Aoki's Dim Mak, Skrillex's Owsla Records and Spinnin Records (home to Garrix) are among the big nominees for label of the year.
Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis called this best picture nominee a "big, ole slab of honey-glazed hokum".
Art Direction History played a big part for two nominees in this category, personally and professionally.
