The ACM Awards started with some Reba McEntire / Blake Shelton joking, including Blake Shelton making a Jake Gyllenhaal gay joke to explain Jake and Taylor Swift’s break up. Watch the video to see Blake Shelton’s dig on Jake Gyllenhaal and Brokeback Mountain – homophobic?

Blake and Reba said they decided there would be no Charlie Sheen or Lindsay Lohan jokes or any jokes about celebrity scandals, but that didn’t stop the celebrity digs. Read the rest of this entry »

Taylor Swift is the ACM Awards 2011 Entertainer of the Year! The final Academy of Country Music award for Entertainer of the Year was presented by Ryan Seacrest and a shocked Taylor Swift took to the stage to thank her fans profusely for the honor.

Earlier at the ACM Awards, Taylor Swift performed “Mean” (video).

Watch the Taylor Swift “Mean” performance at the ACM Awards 2011 (video). Taylor Swift started on a country front porch on stage at the 2011 Academy of Country Music to sing “Mean,” strumming her banjo with a country bumpkin bunch of musicians.

What did you think of Taylor Swift’s ACM Awards 2011 performance of “Mean?”

Love. This. Watch Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood in this ACM Awards 2011 video clip, singing “Undo It” and “Walk This Way.”

Hands down, Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood stole the Academy of Country Music Awards show! Read the rest of this entry »

Watch the 2011 ACM Awards online live streaming video plus ACM red carpet arrivals live here! Visit cbs.com/vote to cast your vote for 2011 ACM Entertainer of the Year and ACM 2011 New Artist of the Year.

The 2011 Academy of Country Music Awards red carpet live stream begins at 6:30 p.m. and the 2011 ACM Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton, start at 8:00 p.m. ET on CBS, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Read the rest of this entry »

Watch Carrie Underwood’s “Temporary Home” performance at the ACM Awards 2010 in this video clip. Carrie Underwood looks crazy gorgeous in that dress and gives a beautiful performance of Temporary Home at the Academy of Country Music awards.

In case you missed it – watch Brad Paisley’s “Water” performance at the ACM Awards 2010 in this video clip (starts around 2:00).

Brad Paisley ends “Water” by making a big splash in a hot tub full of it!

Here’s the list of ACM 2010 winners… surprisingly, the Academy of Country Music Awards was the one award show where Taylor Swift came away empty handed.

Big ACM 2010 winners included Lady Antebellum (Vocal Group of the Year), Carrie Underwood (first woman to win Entertainer of the Year twice), Miranda Lambert and Brad Paisley. Read the rest of this entry »