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After the jump, I have posted the full list of this year’s nominees at the MTV Movie Awards, but here are some important statistics:
Twilight tops the list with seven nominations. Of course it does. High School Musical 3: Senior Year gets more nominations than The Dark Knight. Um, fucking, GET SMART has two nominations. Anne Hathaway is up for Best Female Performance for her work in Bride Wars. And this year they have added a new category: Best WTF Moment, so that scenes like Ben Stiller licking the bloody viscera of Steve Coogan’s severed head in Tropic Thunder finally get the credit they deserve (?).
Are we still seriously talking about Twilight and Tropic Thunder? Wanted? Seriously? It’s been months since the “real” movie awards, and if anyone is obsessed with the hot new thing it’s children. Who needs to debate the merits of a movie that came out months ago, on DVD?
That aside, do the MTV Movie Awards even make sense anymore? They kind of worked when they started in 1992, when music and pop culture were still an important part of the network’s programming. It fit with MTV’s mission to be the pop cultural homebase for America’s teenagery. And while that might still be their proposed mission statement, what qualifies MTV to know anything anymore? How on Earth do the people who bring you Room Raiders, and NeXt, and The City feel like they have any authority to determine the comparative quality of anything?
The short answer is that they don’t. The nominees were supposedly selected by viewers, and the awards will also be determined by them. You can vote here. But if that is true, what that means is that the MTV Movie Awards are basically the Teen Choice Awards. And the Teen Choice Awards are stupid. But at least the Teen Choice Awards call themselves what they are, and give out surfboards, and are a joke. I don’t get it. I am literally too old for this shit.
Whoops, I just broke my hip. Care for a butterscotch? They’re still warm from my pocket!
BEST MOVIE
The Dark Knight
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Twilight
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Angelina Jolie – Wanted
Anne Hathaway – Bride Wars
Kate Winslet – The Reader
Kristen Stewart – Twilight
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Christian Bale – The Dark Knight
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man
Shia LaBeouf – Eagle Eye
Vin Diesel – Fast & Furious
Zac Efron – High School Musical 3: Senior Year
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE FEMALE
Amanda Seyfried – Mamma Mia!
Ashley Tisdale – High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Freida Pinto – Slumdog Millionaire
Miley Cyrus – Hannah Montana: The Movie
Vanessa Hudgens – High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Kat Dennings – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE MALE
Robert Pattinson – Twilight
Taylor Lautner – Twilight
Ben Barnes – The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
Bobb’e J. Thompson – Role Models
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Amy Poehler – Baby Mama
Anna Faris – The House Bunny
James Franco – Pineapple Express
Jim Carrey – Yes Man
Steve Carell – Get Smart
BEST VILLAIN
Derek Mears – Friday The 13th
Dwayne Johnson – Get Smart
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Johnathon Schaech – Prom Night
Luke Goss – Hellboy II: The Golden Army
BEST FIGHT
Anne Hathaway vs. Kate Hudson – Bride Wars
Christian Bale vs. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Ron Perlman vs. Luke Goss – Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet – Twilight
Seth Rogen and James Franco vs. Danny McBride – Pineapple Express
BEST KISS
Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy – Wanted
Freida Pinto and Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
James Franco and Sean Penn – Milk
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – Twilight
Paul Rudd and Thomas Lennon – I Love You, Man
Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron – High School Musical 3: Senior Year
BEST WTF MOMENT (New Category)
Amy Poehler – Baby Mama, Peeing In the Sink
Angelina Jolie – Wanted, Curved Bullet Kill
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar – Slumdog Millionaire, Jumping in the Poop Shed
Ben Stiller – Tropic Thunder, Tasting the Decapitated Head
Jason Segel and Kristen Bell – Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Naked Break-Up
BEST SONG FROM A MOVIE (New Category)
“Jai Ho” – AR Raham, Slumdog Millionaire
“The Wrestler” – Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler
“The Climb” – Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie
“Decode” – Paramore, Twilight
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Best WTF moment: Ayush Mahesh Khedekar – Slumdog Millionaire, Jumping in the Poop Shed.
It’s a good thing they didn’t offer this award when Schindler’s List came out.
Nominating that for a WTF award is a WTF moment.
I’ll do you one better: why does MTV still exist?
Exactly! MTV is getting out-skanked by VH1 and isn’t even as relevant as the CW anymore. I’m getting too old for this shit.
Because it is fully sponsored by Valtrex and Trojan DUH. Future and present demographic.
I am pleased that such a ceremony exists to stimulate my taste in culture and the arts that are truly relevant to today’s young adults, as opposed to an archaic and ultimately empty gesture that the Academy provides the medium of film. Now, if you’d excuse me, I have a delightful acoustic cover of Asher Roth to film and upload to YouTube, as I feel that such is an extremely relevant action that will most certainly earn me the respect and adoration of my peers.
The best song from a movie catagory makes my tummy feel funny. AR Raham is a hugely respected and highly revered composer…….and Miley Cyrus is Miley Cyrus?
You can tell that voting for the nominees is legitimate because “The Wrestler” was nominated for Best Song From a Movie. So many teenagers saw The Wrestler. My theater was full of them, squealing and throwing popcorn at the screen every time there was a depiction of abject misery.
My theater was also packed with teenagers when I saw Slumdog Millionaire.
Movie Awards by a channel who refers to themselves as “Music” Television. I have trouble remembering the last music video on saw on there, let alone on mtv2.
Bruce Springsteen finally gets redemption for being passed up for an Oscar nomination. Thanks MTV! Maybe that’s why these awards exist (that is not way they exist).
They exist as an excuse for celebrities to dress up, get drunk & talk about how great they are. Because celebrities never get a chance to do that, ever. And also to honor Twilight as the most unintentionally hilarious movie made in recent memory.
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That’s your Twilight fan.
umm, ur face.
Wait, is that all the awards? Why does this show get three hours of programming for 11 awards? Can we really fill up the rest of the time with inexplicable shots of the cast of Twilight?
Johnathon Schaech< \i>
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
MTV Movie Awards
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
To everyone out there,
I haven’t been nominated yet. The reason I need votes is to be nominated.
I’m going against some major big names so I’m going to need everyone
and their mother to vote for me.(Twice)
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2009/best-villain/
I’m trying to get a clip up from Prom Night – if anyone knows how to download
the scene from time code 15:45 to 16:27 to a YouTube account. This is the scene with
Britney, Idris and myself. I’d appreciate it.
MTV movie award nomination for best villain would help me get people in Hollywood
to notice me again.
When That Thing You Do! Came out – I’m not certain they had the best villain category…
cause Jimmy Mattingley the third would have been a sure bet.
Hope everyone is doing well…tough times all around.
Much love,
Johnathon
Currently watching:
Prom Night (Unrated)
Release date: 2008-08-19
CONGRATS!!
that made me so sad.
he’s a grown man.
hoping that he’ll be recognized by teenagers for his hard work in a shitty movie.
so much sadness.
Can we get a late write-in campaign for Barbecue Origins: Ribs started, Colbert-esque style, Gabe?
Way to finally get a “Best Song From A Movie” category. It’s not like it’s Music fucking Television or anything.
And Jonathan Schaech must be so happy right now. Congratulations Jonathan Schaech! You deserve it!
None of these babies know what a Bruce Springsteen is so CUT IT OUT, PRODUCERS!
Nostalgia: remember when Justin Timberlake beat Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” for “Best Music Video”?
Not mad about it. Just saying that “remember when Justin Timberlake beat Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ for ‘Best Music Video” SHOULD HAVE NEVER EVEN BEEN CREATED AS AN OPTION TO HAVE CHOICE OF!!!!
Make it a Werther’s Original and you’ve got a date.
Far be it for me to tell anyone not to celebrate mediocrity to earn a few bucks, but these nominees are terrible. Did we really make all that crap? In one year? Yuck.
I love that Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens and Miley EatsShirts are nominated as breakthrough performers, but Zac Efron gets a regular performer nom. Since, you know, Zac Efron is so very established with or without his HSM cred, but the other girls really CAME INTO THEIR OWN with those roles.
“I don’t know, are you thinking, ‘holy shit holy shit a plastic marlin nearly went through my head’?” -Alan “I am a perpetual genius” Arkin in, um, fucking Get Smart deserves its own completely meaningless statue of some kind b/c that shit was hilaaaaaaarious.
But also, right? Go away, MTV. You’re useless.
I actually liked Get Smart.
How is Best New Song a new category exactly? if I recall, it was originally a category until about ’99 or ’00.
The again, the audience for this were still in diapers at that point, so it’s new to them.
legit question: were the MTV Movie awards originally marketed as a “crossover” thing for MTV?
I love how they always throw in a few prestigious films/actors into the mix to try and make it like a “real” awards show. i can’t tell you how many tweens at my local cineplex took in a double feature of “high school musical 3″ and “the reader” every saturday night! peachy keen!
What just preceded was some of the best internet I have ever seen.
Same for the feel-good hit Goodbye Uncle Tom that Gabe and Rich reviewed here. I saw it, and that entire movie is one long-ass WTF moment.
I sort of feel sad that Bruce Springsteen is up against Hannah Montana and Paramore in that category and will most likely lose.
so here’s a serious question…. heath ledger is up for 2 awards. what will happen if:
a, he wins… do they try to make a serious and sappy acceptance of an posthumous MTF MOVIE AWARD?
b. he loses… wtf? all best villain nominees are complete shit. yes, guy from prom night, you are the winner over HEATH LEDGER. that would be the wtf moment of the year.
although i’d like to see pineapple express win for best fight. just sayin.
Anyone else in disbelief that Paul Rudd and Thomas Lennon are up for Best Kiss for I Love You, Man?
James Franco and Christian Bale. Those are my reasons for watching. Just let me have my tender girl thoughts okay!
I love that amongst all the Twilight crap I am treated to this(you know, to make it a real awards show! diversity!): Best Kiss “James Franco and Sean Penn – Milk”
Zac Efron should be nominated for this:
I mean, THIS.
Ironically, the Razzies have more importance and prestige than the MTV Movie Awards.
Ironically, the Razzies have more importance and prestige than the MTV Movie Awards.