Monday, May 4, 2009

Awards Watch: MTV Movie Award Nominations

It is a case of extremes as far as the nominations for the 18th Annual MTV Movie Awards (announced earlier today) are concerned. On one hand, we have Twilight (which was totally ignored when it came to all other 2008 film awards), scoring a field best seven nods; on the other, we have Slumdog Millionaire (which won every prize in sight, including Oscar's Best Picture), coming in a close second with six nominations. Both films are vying for the top popcorn trophy for Best Movie, alongside The Dark Knight, High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Iron Man.

Among the other notable nominees in MTV's many wacky categories (including the new "Best WTF Moment") are Heath Ledger's Joker up for Best Villain (gee, do you think he'll win?), a rematch of the Academy's Best Actress line-up (Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie and Anne Hathaway, albeit for totally different films for the latter two) and two man-on-man lip locks (Milk's James Franco and Sean Penn and I Love You, Man's Thomas Lennon and Paul Rudd) in the Best Kiss race.

As with the nominations, anyone can vote for the final awards, which will be presented live on MTV May 31 (hosted by Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg). For a quick look at all the nominees, see the comments section below.

1 comment:

Kirby Holt said...

2009 MTV Movie Award Nominations:

Best Movie
The Dark Knight
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Twilight

Best Male Performance:
Christian Bale in The Dark Knight
Vin Diesel in Fast & Furious
Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man
Zac Efron in High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Shia LaBeouf in Eagle Eye

Best Female Performance:
Anne Hathaway in Bride Wars
Angelina Jolie in Wanted
Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kristen Stewart in Twilight
Kate Winslet in The Reader

Best Comedic Performance:
Steve Carell in Get Smart
Jim Carrey in Yes Man
Anna Faris in The House Bunny
James Franco in Pineapple Express
Amy Poehler in Baby Mama

Best Villain:
Luke Goss in Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Dwayne Johnson in Get Smart
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Derek Mears in Friday the 13th
Johnathon Schaech in Prom Night

Best Breakthrough Performance Male:
Ben Barnes in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Taylor Lautner in Twilight
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
Robert Pattinson in Twilight
Bobb'e J. Thompson in Role Models

Best Breakthrough Performance Female:
Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana: The Movie
Kat Dennings in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Vanessa Hudgens in High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
Amanda Seyfried in Mamma Mia!
Ashley Tisdale in High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Best Kiss:
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
I Love You, Man
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Twilight
Wanted

Best Fight:
Bride Wars
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Pineapple Express
Twilight

Best Song from a Movie:
"The Climb" from Hannah Montana: The Movie
"Decode" from Twilight
"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire
"The Wrestler" from The Wrestler

Best WTF Moment:
Baby Mama
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Slumdog Millionaire
Tropic Thunder
Wanted