Jared Leto has said that he was "blown away" to learn about his band's MTV Video Music Award nominations.
The 30 Seconds To Mars frontman found out about the honours while overseas in New Zealand and joked that the moment would "go down in history".
"I was in Auckland, and I woke up after a long slumber, looked over to my BlackBerry, and noticed that the red light seemed to be flashing with an added urgency. So I reached over and quickly found out that this was a day that would go down in history for this little band of ours," he told MTV News.