Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Awards Watch: I Want My MTV

It was a good day for Michael Cera yesterday. The star of Superbad and Juno saw both of his movies from last year nominated for this year's MTV Movie Awards, with a combined total of nine nominations, including three nods for himself. Joining the two comedies in the Best Movie race are I Am Legend, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Transformers (that's right, Toto, we're not at the Oscars any more).

The Enchanted Amy Adams also picked up three nods, and Johnny Depp was nominated for both his Captain Jack and Sweeney Todd. Hairspray cuties Nikki Blonsky and Zac Efron are up for Breakthrough Performance (along with Superbad's Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jonah Hill), but not Best Kiss (!). The biggest headscratcher though is Jessica Biel actually being nominated for her acting (and for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, no less).

For a quick look at the nominees, see the comments section below, then head over to MTV.com to vote on the awards yourself. The "Golden Popcorns" will be handed out June 1 on, naturally, MTV. Mike Myers will be on hand to shill his upcoming movie The Love Guru ... I mean host.

2 comments:

  1. Best Movie:
    I Am Legend
    Juno
    National Treasure: Book of Secrets
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
    Superbad
    Transformers

    Best Male Performance:
    Michael Cera in Juno
    Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum
    Shia LaBeouf in Transformers
    Will Smith in I Am Legend
    Denzel Washington in American Gangster

    Best Female Performance:
    Amy Adams in Enchanted
    Jessica Biel in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
    Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up
    Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Ellen Page in Juno

    Best Comedic Performance:
    Amy Adams in Enchanted
    Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Jonah Hill in Superbad
    Seth Rogan in Knocked Up
    Adam Sandler in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

    Best Villain:
    Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
    Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3
    Angelina Jolie in Beowulf
    Denzel Washington in American Gangster

    Best Breakthrough Performance:
    Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray
    Chris Brown in This Christmas
    Michael Cera in Juno
    Zac Efron in Hairspray
    Megan Fox in Transformers
    Jonah Hill in Superbad
    Christopher Mintz-Plasse in Superbad
    Seth Rogan in Knocked Up

    Best Kiss:
    Disturbia
    Enchanted
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Juno
    Step Up 2 the Streets

    Best Fight:
    Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
    The Bourne Ultimatum
    Jumper
    Never Back Down
    Rush Hour 3
    Spider-Man 3

    Best Summer Movie So Far:
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Iron Man
    Sex and the City: The Movie
    Speed Racer

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  2. I was disappointed that the Zac Efron/Nikki Blonsky kiss from Hairspray was not nominated for best kiss. It should have been, especially since most in the category that are nominated suck!

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