Swift, Paisley win big at CMT Awards

NASHVILLE, June 17 (UPI) -- Brad Paisley won the prizes for male video, collaborative video and performance of the year at the 2009 CMT Music Awards show in Nashville.

Paisley's male video statuette was for "Waitin' on a Woman," while the collaborative video honor was for "Start a Band," which he made with Keith Urban.

He shared his CMT performance of the year title with Alan Jackson, George Strait and Dierks Bentley for "Country Boy."

Taylor Swift picked up CMT awards Tuesday night for female video and video of the year for "Love Story."

For the seventh consecutive year, Rascal Flatts won the prize for group video, this time for "Every Day."

Sugarland took home the trophy for duo video for "All I Want to Do," which marks their third consecutive win in the duo category.

Kid Rock earned the honor for wide open country video for "All Summer Long," Zac Brown Band was this year's winner of the USA Weekend Breakthrough Video for "Chicken Fried" and Trey Fanjoy won the gong for video director of the year for her entire body of work during the last year, including Swift's "Love Story."

Actor/comedian Bill Engvall served as host of the 2009 CMT Music Awards show, which kicked off with a comedy sketch featuring a collaboration between rap artist T-Pain and Swift, rapping to a new version of "Love Story" called "Thug Story."

The show also featured Dierks Bentley performing his new hit, "Sideways," Darius Rucker introducing his third single, "Alright," and Lady Antebellum reenacting the video for their nominated song, "Lookin' for a Good Time."

Paisley also sang "Then" and Swift recreated the video for her hit "You Belong With Me."