It is well known that the MTV Movie Awards are the single most important celebration of the art and grandeur of film that we currently enjoy as a modern society. It’s simply an honor just to be nominated, and anyone who comes away with a MOONMAN can finally answer that evergreen dinner party question “So what do you do?” with a proud and confident “I am an artist.” Of course, it’s not simply a recognition of groundbreaking artistry, craft, and innovation it’s also OK, I can’t do this anymore. The MTV Movie Awards are a ridiculous pile of shit. Who cares? How is this even on TV anymore? I’m pretty sure teenagers will not look up from their phones for this thing. (As a sidenote: my favorite MTV Movie Award moment in history is probably when Salt was nominated for Best Action Movie a solid month before it was even released in theaters but let’s get back to business.) The categories for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards have been announced and there are some exciting new additions to the roster that has long included BEST KISS as a REAL AWARD that SOMEONE WINS. (“Hey, Cameron Diaz, congratulations on your Best Kiss Moonman” is a sentence that a living human being has probably heard in his or her lifetime and that’s the world we live in and that’s the peace we have to make.) The categories include:

  • “Movie of the Year”
  • “Best Female Performance”
  • “Best Male Performance”
  • “Breakthrough Performance”
  • “Best Comedic Performance”
  • “Best Music”*
  • “Best On-Screen Transformation”*
  • “Best Gut-Wrenching Performance”*
  • “Best Kiss”
  • “Best Fight”
  • “Best Cast”*
  • “Best On-Screen Dirt Bag”*

* New category

BEST GUT-WRENCHING PERFORMANCE! This used to simply be known as “best performance” but then people were like I wouldn’t call The Rock’s performance in Tooth Fairy GUT-WRENCHING but he’s obviously got a lock on Best Male Performance so we need an additional category to help us celebrate the exceptional work of Taylor Lautner in Abducted. Do you guys ever worry that the MTV Movie Awards are TOO meaningful and TOO respectful of the very medium they’re purportedly celebrating? ANYWAY: let’s make up our own stupid MTV Movie Awards categories. My guess is that they will probably basically sound like real categories and not even be funny it will just be like “Are you absolutely sure that Best Butt Double In A Comedy/Musical isn’t already a thing?” Here are some suggestions:

  • Best Mountain Dew Code Red Product Placement
  • Best Pantomime of Jerking Off in a Jonah Hill Movie
  • Best Professional Athlete Cameo
  • Best Female Use Of Swearing
  • Best Extraneous Male Taking His Shirt Off For No Explainable Reason
  • Best Supernatural Thing
  • Most Sexting
  • The Lifetime XBOX Award For Achievement In XBOX 360
  • The Red Bull Award
  • Best Salt

All of them presented by your host: Jason Mraz! (Via Movieline.)

Comments (78)
  1. Best Use of Betty White

  2. Best Use Of Someone Being Videotaped, Autotuned, And Put On Youtube.

  3. Best Origin Story for A Rebooted Sequel

  4. Best Snooki

  5. Best Use of Ideas

    Best Silent Emoting By Teenager

    Best Taylor Lautner Ab Flex

  6. Best People’s Choice Awards Acceptance Speech

  7. Best Playboy Pictorial By A Recently Paroled Former Child Star

  8. Best Robot Fight Sequence

  9. Best Use of Found Footage

  10. Best Use Of Casual Implied Racism

  11. Best Hair and Makeup Model
    “Sparkle Vampire” – Robert Patterson, Twilight
    “Robert Smith” – Sean Penn, This Must Be the Place
    “Tonto” – Johnny Depp, Lone Ranger

  12. Best Hair
    Best Smile
    Best Friends
    Best Laugh
    Best Eyes
    Most Stylish
    Class Clown

  13. Best Condom Drop on the Red Carpet

  14. Best use of The Rock

  15. Best Off-Screen Fight Scene

  16. Best Tweets To Build Up Word-Of-Mouth Branding

    • Downvote this. This is really going to happen. Maybe not with MTV but with someone. Someone somewhere will win an award for best Tweets and that will actually happen and it will go on their resume alongside their Pinterest board and other achievements in doing absolutely nothing.

      And by someone it will be a self-described Social Media Guru who has been out of college for maybe… 2 years.

      • OMG I just went on Pinterest! Mountain Dew Cupcakes?? WHYYYY?!? My eyes! I can’t wash them enough!

      • WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING?! ‘Hot debate. What do you think?’?! WHAAAA-

        This new system is starting to grate on me. I don’t mind seeing the number of up/downvotes. But it is unnecessary to have two places to up/downvote, and I keep confusing the one directly below the comment for more ACTUAL comment.

        The commentary on the comment’s status based on the up/downvotes is pointless, as is the colored boxes for a string of comments. I don’t like the pink and I really don’t like the yellow. It’s too jarring.

        There. I said it.

        And the debate rages on.

        • plus, once again you’re allowed to vote when not logged in. is this supposed to happen? i take it there’ll be a discussion in the monster’s ball thread on friday, or has it already happened?

  17. Best movie based on a blog.

  18. Best TV show produced by Ashton Kutcher.

  19. Best Use of word “Bro”

  20. Best Use of Like or Dislike

  21. Scene Most Likely to Upset a Non-Profit Organization

  22. Best Montage Of White Women Bonding While Singing Along To A Motown Song Recorded Before 1968 And Also Cooking.

  23. Actor whose Performance Can Only Be Recreated by Andy Serkis

  24. Outstanding Achievement in Subtle Racism

  25. Best Love Triangle

    That could definitely be a real one.

  26. Best Slow Motion Entrance

  27. Best Vest (Kraven is going to be in the new Spiderman movie, right?)

  28. I don’t know about new categories, but my source tells me The Dictator has “Best Foreign Film” locked up, but the race for “Best Adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks Book” is still wide open.

  29. Best Dramatic Pause

    • Is it weird that I totally remember this being a category in 1999? I mean, obviously it was a total joke, but I definitely remember Deep Impact being nominated for one of Morgan Freeman’s pauses. And Lisa Kudrow presented the award, but never announced a winner because OBVIOUSLY.

      OK, back to grad school!

  30. -Best Yo-Yo Trickz
    -Most Swag
    -Best Hi-Five (Duo)
    -Best Hi-Five (Trio)

  31. Best Lip Bite By Kristen Stewart

  32. If they add all of these there might be a few less hurt feelings after the ceremony

    Best Actor
    Bestest Actor
    Greatest Actor
    Finest Actor
    Most unparalleled Actor
    Most Optimal Actor
    Most Amazing Actor
    Most Magnificent Actor
    Most Prime Actor
    Most Super Actor
    Most Perfect Actor
    and Lifetime Achievement Award

  33. Best Simulated Fellatio Choreography

  34. Best Fart, obviously.

    (Side note: Thank GOD I can now see which comments are Well-Loved, it was way too much trouble interpreting what the green/red numbers signified before. Hello, not everybody was a math major…)

  35. Best Trendy Over-emoitional Semi-Ambusive Supernatural Being

  36. Best faked orgasm

  37. Best use of subliminal advertising

  38. Best On-Screen Internet Comment

  39. Best complete misrepresentation of how computers work

  40. Best justification for abusive relationships, non-Twilight category.

  41. Best PG-13 One-Time Use of ‘Fuck’ In A Non-Sexual Context

  42. Best Film Not Voted On By A 12 Year Old Girl

  43. Best portrayal of a teenager by an adult.

  44. Best Use of Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton Film

  45. … on-screen…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3y9llDXuM

    Remember? Because of that movie with Jason Biggs?

  46. Best Overexposure of a Terrible Song.

  47. I know all of the celebs get giftbags for showing up, but they need a door-prizey award just for shits. Like,
    “Best Impromptu Camera Switch to Unaware Celebrity Displaying Honest Emotion (boredom, disdain, outright depression), but ‘Turning It On’ When They Become Aware of the Camera”. Or, “Best Exiting the Restroom After Having Clearly Not Washed Your Hands”. You know, just to keep things interesting.

  48. best who farted looks (instead of actually looking like you normal emotions)- cast of twilight wins all of these… every year… forevers and evers.

  49. Best Little Person Nutshot

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