Wednesday 21 May 2008

MTV Movie Award Nominations Show Some McLovin To 'Superbad,' 'Juno,' 'Transformers' And More

MTV Movie Award Nominations Show Some McLovin To 'Superbad,' 'Juno,' 'Transformers' And More







From affectionate spoofs to gushing tributes, for 16 old age the MTV Movie Awards get been around celebrating the best in motion picture and recognizing Hollywood's biggest stars. This year, finally, the usher is acquiring a little McLovin back.
"Superbad" lED totally flicks as nominations were announced Tuesday good morning (May 6) for the 17th Annual MTV Moving-picture show Awards, which will be broadcast know Billy Sunday, June 1, from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Linguistic universal City, California. The raunchy adolescent clowning scored noms for Best Picture; Topper Comedic Performance (Jonah Hill); and deuce-ace bids in the Charles Herbert Best Newcomer category, for Mound, Christopher-Mintz Plasse and Michael Cera.
You're non sightedness double: The "Arrested Maturation" doer as well picked up a Topper Male Performance nomination for "Juno." The critical fave about a pregnant teenager is besides up for Best Picture, Best Female person Performance for star Ellen Page, and Best Candy kiss (the pair's smack at the end). And that's the truth, honest to blog.
Rounding come out the nominees for Best Picture show ar "Subject Treasure: Rule book of Secrets," "I Am Legend," "Transformers" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." At death year's ceremony "Transformers" north Korean won the award for Topper Summer Motion-picture show You Haven't Seen Until now, spell "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" walked away with the Golden Popcorn for Best Moving-picture show.
Will Captain Jack make to withdraw menage another prize on Film Awards night? Johnny Reb Depp's take on the seafaring scallywag is erstwhile again nominated for Best Comedic Performance. He took down Sir Humphrey Davy John Luther Jones no trouble, but he'll suffer to prove the Skull and Crossbones to take down his contender in this class, including Hill, Ecstasy Sandler ("I Now Label You Ditch & Larry"), Seth Rogen ("Knocked Up") and Amy Adams ("Enchanted").
The enchanting Samuel Adams, meantime, proves that sprite tales in truth do come true, with a record-tying trey individual nominations. Aside from her nod for Topper Comedic Performance, the newest Walt Disney princess boasts nominations for Charles Herbert Best Female person Performance and Charles Herbert Best Kiss (with Patrick Manassa Mauler). To be crowned Queen of the Ball for the former, however, she'll have to beat come out of the closet Keira Knightley ("Pirates of the Caribbean"), Katherine Heigl ("Knocked Up"), Varlet and Jessica Biel ("I Now Sound out You Chuck & Larry"). Hey, if the glass slipper fits.
The wicked stepmother isn't about this year to position a damper on the fun, merely thither will be mess of meanies in any event, as five of the biz's baddest depict up to fight for Charles Herbert Best Scoundrel. The frightful basketball team are Depp, for his role as the bereaved person barber in "Sweeney Todd: The Devil Barber of Fleet Street"; Angelina Jolie, for her, um, "computer graphic" withdraw on Grendel's mother in "Beowulf"; Topher Thanksgiving, for his theatrical role as Maliciousness in "Spider-Man 3"; Academy Award succeeder Javier Bardem for the coin-flipping bravo with the silly haircut in "No Nation for Old Hands"; and Denzel Booker T. Washington for his carry on dose jehovah Wiener George Lucas in "American English Gangster."
Booker Taliaferro Washington is besides nominated for the same use in the category of C. H. Best Male Performance. Aside from Cera, other nominees in the category include Will Smith ("I Am Fable"), Flatness Damon ("The Bourn Ultimatum") and Shiah LaBeouf ("Transformers").
Between "Transformers," Surf's Up" and "Disturbia," it was a big yr for LaBeouf, merely non as big, perchance, as the nominees in the category of Breakthrough Performance, completely of whom catapulted into the mainstream. Zac Efron and Nikki Blonsky ("Hairspray"), Megan Fox ("Transformers"), Chris Brown University ("This Dec 25") and Seth Rogen ("Knocked Up") join the "Superbad" three.
It'll be a fight to the finish, but nix like the form of brawls that are nominated this year in the category of C. H. Best Fight, which include Damon vs. Joey Asah, for their rooftop rumble in "The Bourne Ultimatum"; Tobey Maguire vs. James River El Caudillo, for their superhero smackdown in "Spider-Man 3"; Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Chime for the global stew match in "Jumper"; Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan vs. Sun Ming Ming dynasty for their heavyweight whipping in "Rush Hour 3"; and Noncitizen vs. Piranha for their whoever-wins-we-lose clamshell in "AvP: Threnody."
If only they could kiss and create up like the nominees for Charles Herbert Best Kiss, including LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer ("Disturbia"), Briana Evigan and Henry Martyn Robert Hoffman ("Footfall Up 2: The Streets"), Mount Adams and Dempsey, Page and Cera, and Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung ("Harry Putter around and the Order of the Phoenix").
In a newly category this year, fivesome films are nominated as the Best Summer Moving picture So Far. They are "IN Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," "Sexual urge and the City: The Film," "Speed Racer," "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" and "Iron Man."
The fate of the awards lies in the custody of the viewing audience: Fans seat ballot by visiting MovieAwards.MTV.com in front May 23 to support their favourite nominees in from each one category. Fans tin can also go online to vote for the user-generated category, Best Flick Lampoon, where viewers stimulate the chance to submit their have original picture trunks parodying films from the past class. MTV has partnered with UGC tV sites, including Photobucket, MySpace, Daily Apparent motion, Break, Buzznet, Heavy and FunnyorDie to generate anyone and everyone with a creative visual sense their chance to shine in a celeb-filled sphere. Finalists for the C. H. Best Moving picture Charade testament be flown to Los Angeles to attend the awards, where one will be crowned the winner.
The always-irreverent awards show up will be hosted by comedian Microphone Myers for a second year, later his 1997 stint as Moving-picture show Awards MC. The designate volition be executive-produced by Emmy-winning manufacturer Mark Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Performers and presenters will be announced before long!
The MTV Flick Awards will air live on MTV on Sun, June 1. Totally the latest updates on nominees, presenters, performers, vote, contests and a lot more crapper be plant on MovieAwards.MTV.com. And hold back out Movies.MTV.com for the latest flick news, trailers, photos and more!
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