Alba, Carell, 'Crashers,' 'Virgin' Big Nominees For MTV Movie Awards
Over the past 12 months, audiences fell head-over-heels for some movie characters who couldn't get enough lovin', and others who have more than they can handle.
Appropriately, then, the 2006 nominees for the MTV Movie Awards honor wedding studs, virginal duds, and a host of kissing, brawling and spell-casting buds.
Bawdy blockbusters "Wedding Crashers" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" lead the pack with five nominations each, followed closely by crowd pleasers "Batman Begins," "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Hustle & Flow," "Sin City" and "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" with three each. Keeping with the theme of spreading the love, the defiantly diverse slate also offers fans the (probably) once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to root for Paris Hilton, "Memoirs of a Geisha," the creepy dude from "Saw" and a pair of cowboy soulmates, all in the same evening.
The top dogs in this year's animal house are Steve Carell (Best Performance, Comedic Performance and On-Screen Team) and Jessica Alba (Team, Best Hero, Sexiest Performance), the latter for her roles in two films: one invisible performance ("Fantastic Four") and another that found her visible in all the right places ("Sin City"). Several actors -- Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard, Angelina Jolie, Ewan McGregor, Brad Pitt, Jessica Simpson, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson -- scored two nominations.
As for the one-of-a-kind categories that no Oscar broadcast would dare embrace, the nominees present a wide-open realm as stunning and edgy as "Brokeback Mountain" itself. Do you prefer your fight scenes to be man-versus-woman ("Mr. & Mrs. Smith"), man-versus-men ("Kung Fu Hustle"), beast-versus-technology ("King Kong") or Padawan-against-Jedi ("Star Wars III")? Are you more terrified by a villain with no nose (Ralph Fiennes in "Potter"), no future (Tobin Bell, "Saw II"), no sanity (Cillian Murphy, "Batman Begins"), no warmth (Tilda Swinton, "The Chronicles of Narnia") or no lower half whatsoever (Hayden Christensen, "Star Wars III")? Between those categories and a Best Kiss group highlighting the gross ("Just Friends"), the groundbreaking ("Brokeback") and the gossip-fueled ("Smith"), there's a nominee for everyone to love.
The annual ceremony also figures to be a memorable one for some already-famous faces who rented out their star power to Hollywood last year, including Andre 3000 ("Four Brothers"), Nelly ("The Longest Yard") and Beyoncé ("The Pink Panther"). Naturally, the nomination of Paris Hilton ("House of Wax") is also convenient, as she'd likely be attending (if not hosting) the afterparties anyway.
As irresistible as the image of Harry Potter, Anakin Skywalker and the Hazzard boys duking it out might be, the biggest brawl of the 2006 awards figures to be between two similarly crude comedy blockbusters. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson will no doubt be renting out their familiar "Wedding" tuxedoes for the event, while "Virgin" Steve Carell will hope to crash their party and push Aquaman aside to make room on his shelf for a few new toys.
The 2006 MTV Movie Awards airs on Thursday, June 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Nominees for the 2006 MTV Movie Awards are:
- BEST MOVIE
- BEST PERFORMANCE
- BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
- BEST ON-SCREEN TEAM
(Universal Pictures)
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
- BEST VILLAIN
(20th Century Fox)
- BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
- BEST HERO
- SEXIEST PERFORMANCE
- BEST FIGHT
- BEST KISS
- BEST FRIGHTENED PERFORMANCE
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