This weekend MTV’s annual celebration of movies, the MTV Movie Awards was televised with the hilarious Rebel Wilson taking on the hosting duties. The always game Wilson performed in a number of sketches and the awards show also included performances by Selena Gomez, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton and the Pitch Perfect cast performing a pop medley.
Going into the awards The Dark Knight Rises, Silver Linings Playbook, Ted, and Django Unchained led the nominations with 7 each. In the end, Silver Linings Playbook and The Avengers each came away with three awards.
The awards went to:
Movie of the Year: The Avengers
Best Male Performance: Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Best Female Performance: Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Breakthrough Performance: Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect
Best Villain: Tom Hiddleston – The Avengers
Best Hero: Martin Freeman – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Best Scared-as-S**t Performance: Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi
Best Shirtless Performance: Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
Summer’s Biggest Teen Bad A**: Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass 2
Best Kiss: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Best Fight: Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner vs. Tom Hiddleston – The Avengers
Best On-Screen Duo: Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane – Ted
Best Musical Moment: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean and Hana Mae Lee — “No Diggity” (from Pitch Perfect)
Best WTF Moment: Candieland Gets Smoked – Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson (from Django Unchained)
Comedic Genius Award: Will Ferrell
MTV Trailblazer Award: Emma Watson
MTV Generation Award: Jamie Foxx
For more details and highlights of the awards visit www.mtv.ca/movieawards