Now here’s an awards show that doesn’t need to expand to 10 nominees to get some crowd-pleasing movies into the mix.
MTV announced its 2010 MTV Movie Awards nominees on Wednesday, and the lineup is long on blockbuster hits and teen idols, with “The Hangover” scoring six nominations, “Avatar” following with five, and “The Twilight Saga” and its stars (below, from the 2009 MTV ceremony) showing up all over the place, from Best Movie to Best Male and Female Performances to three out of the five slots in the new Global Superstar category.
One would think that Kristen, Robert and Taylor would have some stiff competition from Johnny Depp in that last race, but one never knows with the MTV awards. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images.)
While movies like “The Hangover,” “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Proposal” and even “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” dominated the nominations, MTV voters did make room for a handful of Oscar nominees and winners: Sandra Bullock in the Best Female Performance category, Christoph Waltz for Best Villain, and Gabourey Sidibe and Anna Kendrick for Best Breakout Star.
On the other hand, “Up in the Air,” “Precious” and “Inglourious Basterds” managed just a single nomination each, a total topped by the likes of “Jennifer’s Body,” “Percy Jackson” and “Dear John.”
Categories included Biggest Badass Star, Best Scared-as-Sh**t Performance and Best WTF Moment, in which Betty White copping a feel in “The Proposal” will go up against Megan Fox vomiting “a mysterious black ooze” in “Jennifer’s Body.”
Voting is open to the public, who can cast ballots through June 5 at MovieAwards.MTV.com. Polls in the Best Movie category will stay open throughout the show.
The awards will take place on Sunday, June 6 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA. Aziz Ansari will host the ceremony, which usually tried hard to be more newsworthy than the winners.
The nominees:
BEST MOVIE
“Alice In Wonderland”
“Avatar”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“The Hangover”
“The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Amanda Seyfried – “Dear John”
Emma Watson – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
Kristen Stewart – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
Sandra Bullock – “The Blind Side”
Zoe Saldana – “Avatar”
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Channing Tatum – “Dear John”
Daniel Radcliffe – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
Robert Pattinson – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
Taylor Lautner – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
Zac Efron – “17 Again”
BEST BREAKOUT STAR
Anna Kendrick – “Up in the Air”
Chris Pine – “Star Trek”
Gabourey Sidibe – “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by
Sapphire”
Logan Lerman – “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The
Lightning Thief”
Quinton Aaron – “The Blind Side”
Zach Galifianakis – “The Hangover”
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Ben Stiller – “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian”
Bradley Cooper – “The Hangover”
Ryan Reynolds – “The Proposal”
Sandra Bullock – “The Proposal”
Zach Galifianakis – “The Hangover”
BEST VILLAIN
Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”
Helena Bonham Carter – “Alice In Wonderland”
Ken Jeong – “The Hangover”
Stephen Lang – “Avatar”
Tom Felton – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
BEST FIGHT
Beyoncé Knowles vs. Ali Larter – “Obsessed”
Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber vs. Ryan Reynolds – “X-Men
Origins: Wolverine”
Logan Lerman vs. Jake Abel – “Percy Jackson and the
Olympians: The Lightning Thief”
Robert Downey Jr. vs. Mark Strong – “Sherlock Holmes”
Sam Worthington vs. Stephen Lang – “Avatar”
BEST KISS
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – “The Twilight Saga:
New Moon”
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning – “The Runaways”
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds – “The Proposal”
Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner – “Valentine’s Day”
Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington – “Avatar”
BEST WTF MOMENT
Betty White – “The Proposal,” Cops a Feel
Bill Murray – “Zombieland ,” Bill Murray?! A Zombie?!
Isabel Lucas – “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,”
Unexpected Transformation
Ken Jeong – “The Hangover,” Naked Trunk Surprise
Megan Fox – “Jennifer’s Body,” Vomits a Mysterious Black Ooze
GLOBAL SUPERSTAR (New Category)
Robert Pattinson
Kristen Stewart
Taylor Lautner
Johnny Depp
Daniel Radcliffe
BEST SCARED-AS-SH**T PERFORMANCE (New Category)
Alison Lohman – “Drag Me To Hell”
Amanda Seyfried – “Jennifer’s Body”
Jesse Eisenberg – “Zombieland”
Katie Featherston – “Paranormal Activity”
Sharlto Copley – “District 9”
BIGGEST BADASS STAR (New Category)
Rain
Angelina Jolie
Channing Tatum
Sam Worthington
Chris Pine
