The 2013 MTV Movie Awards: Nominees and Snubs

March 6th, 2013

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The nominations for were announced last night via a live stream on MTV.com. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Seth MacFarlane’s Ted tied for most nominations with seven each, including Movie of the Year. Other top nominated films include The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbookand The Dark Knight Rises.

The biggest surprise of the night was Twilight’s snub. For a film franchise that has dominated the MTV Movie Awards since 2009, it surprisingly only received one nomination for Taylor Lautner in the Best Shirtless Performance category. It looks like the MTV Movie Awards are trying to regain the credibility they had before being taken over by the Twilight fandom.

Many of the regular award categories were notably excluded in this year’s line-up, including Best Cast, Best Comedic Performance, Best Gut Wrenching Performance, Best On Screen Transformation, Best On Screen Dirt Bag and Best Music. To fill that void are new categories such as Best WTF Moment, Best On Screen Duo and Best Villain.

Last year, Emma Stone was awarded the first ever Trailblazer Award, which celebrated her career achievements in film. That category is also absent this year. Instead, a new category titled Comic Genius Award will honour comedian Will Ferrell.

Category differences aside, my predictions from last night were not completely off. Eddie Redmayne in Les Misérables, Suraj Sharma in Life of Pi, and Ezra Miller in The Perks of Being a Wallflower all scored nominations in the category of Best Breakthrough Performance. Nine-year old Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis scored a nod for her role in Beasts Of The Southern Wild, as did this year’s MTV Movie Awards host Rebel Wilson for her hilarious role in Pitch Perfect.

The 2013 MTV Movie Awards will be hosted by Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson and air on MTV on April 9 at 9 p.m. ET. Be sure to check back on our blog in the coming weeks for more updates on presenters and performers.

What do you think of the nominations? Did your favourites of 2012 get recognized?

Check out the entire list of nominations below:

Movie of the Year
Django Unchained
Silver Linings Playbook
TED
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises

Best Female Performance
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Milka 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-Sh*t Performance
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Alexandra Dadario – 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
Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo – The Avengers
Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane – Ted
Will Ferrell and Zack 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 – Ted

Best Fight
Jamie Foxx cs. Candieland Henchmen – Django Unchained
Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace – Skyfall
Mark Wahlberg vs. Seth MacFarlane – Ted
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and 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 – “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 and Hana Mae Lee – Pitch Perfect
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller in The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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