MTV Movie Award Nominations

For those wiling away from post Oscar withdrawals (some mental health expert will surely come up with a more clinical word for it), here's something to gravitate to-- The MTV Movie Awards.

MOVIE OF THE YEAR
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Marvel's The Avengers
Silver Linings Playbook
Ted

Not a bad line-up, and refreshingly not skewing the MTV norm of favoring current flavors of the month.  All props for breaking tradition with not choosing The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, although isn't a bit odd that Skyfall, one of the best reviewed blockbusters of the past year is oddly snubbed!

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Ben Affleck, Argo
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained
Channing Tatum, Magic Mike

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

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Eddie Redmayne, Les Miserables
Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi
Quevenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect

BEST ON-SCREEN DUO
The Campaign- Will Ferrell & Zach Galifianakis
Django Unchained- Leonardo DiCaprio & Samuel L. Jackson
Marvel's The Avengers- Robert Downey, Jr. & Mark Ruffalo 
Silver Linings Playbook- Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence
Ted- Seth MacFarlane & Mark Whalberg

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, The House at the End of the Street
Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi

BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE
Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises
Daniel Craig, Skyfall
Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
Seth MacFarlane, Ted
Channing Tatum, Magic Mike

Have to appreciate the reversed sexist roll call here, even if MacFarlane's inclusion is absurd.  Perhaps it's meant to be subversive for those jokes and consistent laments about his Oscar performance.

BEST KISS
Django Unchained- Jamie Foxx & Kerry Washington
Moonrise Kingdom- Kara Haywood & Jared Gillman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Logan Lerman & Emma Watson
Silver Linings Playbook- Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence
Ted- Mila Kunis & Mark Wahlberg 

BEST FIGHT
The Dark Knight Rises-  Christian Bale vs. Tom Hardy
Django Unchained- Jamie Foxx vs. Candieland Henchmen
Marvel's The Avengers- The Avengers vs. Tom Hiddelston
Skyfall- Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace
Ted- Mark Whalberg vs. Seth MacFarlane

BEST VILLAIN (I obstructed one name because its a spoiler; scroll to see)
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Marion Cotillard, The Dark Knight Rises
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises
Tom Hiddelston, Marvel's The Avengers

BEST MUSICAL MOMENT
Les Miserables- Anne Hathaway
Magic Mike- Channing Tatum and the Strippers
The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Logan Lerman, Emma Watson & Ezra Miller
Pitch Perfect- Anna Kendrick and the Bellas
Silver Linings Playbook- Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence

BEST "WTF" MOMENT
Skyfall- Javier Bardem
--Mutilated and deformed after a botched suicide attempt, Bardem's villain twists his prosthetic mug to show the few teeth he has left in a gut-twisting moment filled with vindictive vengeance.

Pitch Perfect- Anna Camp
--As Aubrey, Camp gives a barftastic display of a capella angst that tips the scales of cinematic grossness.

Django Unchained- Jamie Foxx & Samuel L. Jackson

--In an excruciating sequence, Foxx's Django blasts servile head-servant Stephen, played by Jackson, and sets the Candieland mansion ablaze with the strike of a match.

 

Ted- Seth MacFarlane

--Fuzzy, flirtatious and flagrantly inappropriate, Seth MacFarlane's Ted takes his co-worker crush one step too far.

 

Flight- Denzel Washington

--Washington's Whip Whitaker rolls an inverted plane out of a 90-degree nose dive and saves the lives of 96 passengers on board.