Robert Pattinson may never get an Oscar for playing Edward Cullen, but on Tuesday his work in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" earned him three MTV Movie Award nominations.
The Byronic brooder is up for Golden Popcorns in the Best Male Performance, Best Kiss and Best Fight Scene categories.
Other tween icons who will vie for the not-so-covetted awards include Justin Bieber (Best Jaw-Dropping Moment, "Never Say Never"), Zac Efron (Best Male Performance, "Charlie St. Cloud") and Pattinson's "Twilight" co-stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner (categories too many to name).
In a surprise to no one, Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman scored a Best Kiss nomination for their lip-locking work in "Black Swan."
All told "Twilight" led the pack with eight nominations, followed closely behind by "Inception" with seven nods and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" with six.
True to its icon, the MTV awards tend to favor popcorn fare at the expense of prestige pictures, with nary a "King's Speech" making the cut. Among the more colorful categories are "Best Scared-as-Sh*t Performance" and "Biggest Bad-Ass Star."
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As previously announced, Jason Sudeikis will host the 20th annual “2011 MTV Movie Awards” on Sunday, June 5th at 9pm ET/8pm CT from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.
Nominees for the “2011 MTV Movie Awards” are as follows:
BEST MOVIE
· Black Swan
Director: Darren Aronofsky, Producers: Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin (Fox Searchlight)
· Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Director: David Yates, Producers: David Heyman and David Barron (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Inception
Director: Christopher Nolan, Producers: Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· The Social Network
Director: David Fincher, Producers: Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin (Sony Pictures)
· The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Director: David Slade, Producers: Wyck Godfrey and Karen Rosenfelt (Summit Entertainment)
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
· Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
· Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Jennifer Aniston – Just Go With It (Sony Pictures)
· Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
· Natalie Portman – Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
· Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
· Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
· Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
· Zac Efron – Charlie St. Cloud (Universal Pictures)
BEST BREAKOUT STAR
· Andrew Garfield – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
· Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)
· Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit (Paramount Pictures)
· Jay Chou – The Green Hornet (Sony Pictures)
· Olivia Wilde – TRON: Legacy (Walt Disney Pictures)
· Xavier Samuel – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
· Adam Sandler – Just Go With It (Sony Pictures)
· Ashton Kutcher – No Strings Attached (Paramount Pictures)
· Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
· Russell Brand – Get Him to the Greek (Universal Pictures)
· Zach Galifianakis – Due Date (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST LINE FROM A MOVIE (New Category)
· Alexys Nycole Sanchez – Grown Ups (Sony Pictures)
“I want to get chocolate wasted.”
· Amanda Bynes and Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
Amanda Bynes: “There is a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.”
Emma Stone: “Tom Cruise?”
· Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
“If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.”
· Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Justin Timberlake: “…a million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool?”
Andrew Garfield: “A billion dollars. And that shut everybody up.”
· Tom Hardy – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.”
BEST VILLAIN
· Christoph Waltz – The Green Hornet (Sony Pictures)
· Leighton Meester – The Roommate (Screen Gems)
· Mickey Rourke – Iron Man 2 (Paramount Pictures)
· Ned Beatty – Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Tom Felton – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST FIGHT
· Amy Adams vs. The Sisters – The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
· Chloë Grace Moretz vs. Mark Strong – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)
· Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint vs. Death Eaters – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. Hallyway Attacker – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Robert Pattinson vs. Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
BEST KISS
· Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
· Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
· Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis – Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)
BEST JAW-DROPPING MOMENT
· James Franco – 127 Hours, Cuts Off His Arm (Fox Searchlight)
· Justin Bieber – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Performance Spectacular (Paramount Pictures)
· Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page – Inception, Paris Café Scene (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Natalie Portman – Black Swan , Mutilation: Pulls The Skin Off Her Finger (Fox Searchlight)
· Steve-O – Jackass 3D, Port-A-Potty Bungee Stunt (Paramount Pictures)
BEST SCARED-AS-SH**T PERFORMANCE
· Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism (Lionsgate)
· Ellen Page – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
· Jessica Szohr – Piranha 3D (The Weinstein Company)
· Minka Kelly – The Roommate (Screen Gems)
· Ryan Reynolds – Buried (Lionsgate)
BIGGEST BADASS STAR
· Alex Pettyfer – I Am Number Four (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)
· Jaden Smith – The Karate Kid (Sony Pictures)
· Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Inception (Warner Bros.)
· Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 2 (Paramount Pictures)
2011 MTV Movie Awards: Total Number of Combined Category Nominations
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 8
Inception 7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 6
The Social Network 5
Black Swan 4
Easy A 3
Kick-Ass 3
The Green Hornet 2
Iron Man 2 2
Just Go With It 2
The Roommate 2
127 Hours 1
Buried 1
Charlie St. Cloud 1
Due Date 1
The Fighter 1
Get Him to the Greek 1
Grown Ups 1
I Am Number Four 1
Jackass 3D 1
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 1
The Karate Kid 1
The Last Exorcism 1
No Strings Attached 1
Piranha 3D 1
Toy Story 3 1
TRON: Legacy 1
True Grit 1
