Miss Universe 2015

Miss Universe 2015
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015.
Date	20 December 2015
Presenters	Steve Harvey, Roselyn Sánchez
Entertainment	Charlie Puth, The Band Perry, Seal
Venue	The AXIS, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Broadcaster	Fox, TV Azteca
Entrants	80
Placements	15
Withdrawals	Egypt, Ethiopia, Guam, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lithuania, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos
Returns	Cayman Islands, Denmark, Montenegro, Vietnam
Winner	Pia Wurtzbach  Philippines
Congeniality	Whitney Shikongo  Angola
Best National Costume	Aniporn Chalermburanawong  Thailand

Miss Universe 2015, the 64th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 20 December 2015 at the The AXIS in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Paulina Vega of Colombia crowned her successor Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines at the end of the event. 80 contestants competed for the crown.

This was the first edition of the Miss Universe pageant to be held under the ownership of WME/IMG, which purchased the Miss Universe Organization from US President-elect Donald Trump on 14 September 2015, three days after NBCUniversal sold him its 50% interest in the organization in exchange for Trump's dropping a breach of contract lawsuit he filed against the media company in August for terminating NBC's contract to televise the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. Consequently, it is also the first Miss Universe event to be aired by Fox and Azteca, which replaced NBC and UniMás (the respective parents of both networks, NBCUniversal and Univision Communications, terminated their rights to the pageant as a result of Trump's incendiary statements against Mexican immigrants during his speech announcing his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States on 16 June) as the pageant's respective English and Spanish broadcasters.