1994 MTV Video Music Awards 1994 MTV Video Music Awards The 1994 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 8, 1994, honoring the best music videos from June 16, 1993, to June 15, 1994. The show was hosted by Roseanne Barr at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and this would be the last time there was a female host for the VMAs until Chelsea Handler hosted in 2010. Kurt Cobain, frontman of grunge band Nirvana, was honored this night after his death on April 5. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley opened the show by Michael giving a speech. They ended
Lisa Marie Newmyer Lisa Marie Newmyer Lisa Marie Newmyer (born August 27, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in "" (1994), and went on to appear in several other films, such as "Sin City" (2005) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). Newmyer graduated from the School of Theatre at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. She made her feature film debut in "" (1994) opposite Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey and directed by Kim Henkel, the writer of the 1974 original film. In 1997, she was cast as Mona on the MTV series "Austin Stories",