This year, it looks like the MTV Movie Awards are looking to class up the joint a bit as they nominated several Oscar winners and nominees among their top choices for this year’s ceremony. Django Unchained, which won two Oscars, grabbed 7 nominations including Best Movie where it goes up against Oscar nominee Silver Linings Playbook plus The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and Ted. The later film, a some-what lowbrow stoner comedy, is also up for 7 awards right in line with MTV’s usual choices… The other big contender is Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence who is up for 5, yes 5, awards including Best Female Performance against fellow Oscar winner Anne Hathaway. Take a look at all the nominees below which also feature some of my favorite films (Perks of Being a Wallflower, Les Mis, Skyfall) and performers (Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Emma Watson, Rebel Wilson, Jessica Chastain and Marion Cotillard to name a few). Voting is open now, and watch for the MTV Movie Awards airing in April on MTV.
2013 MTV Movie Award Nominees~
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
“Django Unchained”
“Silver Linings Playbook”
“Ted”
“The Avengers”
“The Dark Knight Rises”
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”
Mila Kunis, “Ted”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Emma Watson, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
Rebel Wilson, “Pitch Perfect”
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Ben Affleck, “Argo”
Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
Jamie Foxx, “Django Unchained”
Channing Tatum, “Magic Mike”
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Ezra Miller, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
Eddie Redmayne, “Les Misérables”
Suraj Sharma, “Life of Pi”
Quvenzhané Wallis, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Rebel Wilson, “Pitch Perfect”
BEST SCARED-AS-S**T PERFORMANCE
Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Alexandra Daddario, “Texas Chainsaw 3D”
Martin Freeman, “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Jennifer Lawrence, “House at the End of the Street”
Suraj Sharma, “Life of Pi”
BEST ON-SCREEN DUO
Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson, “Django Unchained”
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane as Ted, “Ted”
Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo, “The Avengers”
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, “The Campaign”
BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE*
Christian Bale, “The Dark Knight Rises
Daniel Craig, “Skyfall
Taylor Lautner, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2″
Seth MacFarlane as Ted, “Ted”
Channing Tatum, “Magic Mike”
BEST FIGHT
Jamie Foxx vs. Candieland Henchmen, “Django Unchained”
Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace, “Skyfall”
Mark Wahlberg vs. Seth MacFarlane as Ted, “Ted”
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson & Jeremy Renner vs. Tom Hiddleston, “The Avengers”
Christian Bale vs. Tom Hardy, “The Dark Knight Rises”
BEST KISS
Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx, “Django Unchained”
Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman, “Moonrise Kingdom”
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg, “Ted”
Emma Watson and Logan Lerman, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
BEST WTF MOMENT
Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson, Candieland Gets Smoked in “Django Unchained”
Denzel Washington, Final Descent in “Flight”
Anna Camp, Hack-Appella in “Pitch Perfect”
Javier Bardem, Oops… There Goes His Face in “Skyfall”
Seth MacFarlane as Ted, Ted Gets Saucy in “Ted”
BEST VILLAIN
Javier Bardem, “Skyfall”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Django Unchained”
Marion Cotillard, “The Dark Knight Rises”
Tom Hardy, “The Dark Knight Rises”
Tom Hiddleston, “The Avengers”
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT*
Anne Hathaway, “Les Misérables”
Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash and Adam Rodriguez, “Magic Mike”
Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean & Hana Mae Lee, “Pitch Perfect”
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
