MTV Movie Award Nominations

The 2014 Oscar season has come to an end, but the awards season is a year-long business. Wednesday morning saw the nominations arrive for the 2015 MTV Movie Awards. Celebrating their twenty-third year of irreverence and creative categories (some of the sillier ones include Best Shirtless Performance, Best WTF Moment and perennial favorite Best Kiss), The MTV Movie Awards are presented as an annual antidote to the stuffy prestige of the Academy Awards. Nominations are voted on by MTV executives and producers, and winners are voted on by the general public.

Nominations this year run the gamut. While popular (and Academy-snubbed) titles like Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, Neighbors, and The Fault in Our Stars received numerous nods from the MTV brass, Oscar favorites American Sniper, Boyhood, and Whiplash made a decent showing in the lineup as well. Guardians of the Galaxy topped the number of nominations with seven mentions, along with the teenage romantic weeper The Fault in Our Stars and the raunchy comedy Neighbors received (Neighbors, however, missed out in the Movie of the Year category). Eight movies will compete for the top prize – as was the same with Oscar this year. While the reputation of the MTV Movie Awards may lack a certain degree of prestige, in years past this is an awards body that has bestowed their top prize to respected movies like Pulp Fiction, Se7en, The Matrix, Menace II Society – and at the inaugural MTV Movie Award ceremony, Terminator 2: Judgement Day – only one of those titles was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award.

Comedian Amy Schumer (star and writer of Trainwreck, hitting screens this summer) hosts the 2015 ceremony that will take place on April 11, 2015.

MOVIE OF THE YEAR

• American Sniper
• Boyhood
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Gone Girl
• Selma
• Whiplash

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE

• Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
• Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars
• Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
• Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher
• Miles Teller, Whiplash

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE

• Scarlett Johansson, Lucy
• Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
• Emma Stone, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Reese Witherspoon, Wild
• Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars

BEST SCARED-AS-S**T PERFORMANCE

• Zach Gilford, The Purge: Anarchy
• Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door
• Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner
• Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
• Annabelle Wallis, Annabelle

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

• Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
• Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars
• Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner
• David Oyelowo, Selma
• Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl

BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE

• Zac Efron, Neighbors
• Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars
• Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
• Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher
• Kate Upton, The Other Woman

BEST DUO

• 22 Jump Street– Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum
• The Fault in Our Stars– Ansel Elgort, Shailene Woodley
• Guardians of the Galaxy– Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel
• The Interview– James Franco, Seth Rogen
• Neighbors– Zac Efron, Dave Franco

BEST FIGHT

• 22 Jump Street– Jillian Bell, Jonah Hill
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)– Michael Keaton, Edward Norton
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier– Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan
• The Maze Runner– Dylan O’Brien, Will Poulter
• Neighbors– Zac Efron, Seth Rogen

BEST KISS

• The Amazing Spider-Man 2– Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier– Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson
• The Fault in Our Stars– Ansel Elgort, Shailene Woodley
• The Interview– James Franco, Seth Rogen
• Neighbors– Rose Byrne, Halston Sage

BEST WTF MOMENT

• 22 Jump Street– Jonah Hill: While on an undercover mission, Jonah Hill’s Schmidt gets inked in a way he definitely wasn’t expecting.
• Horrible Bosses 2– Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis: An infomercial for their new invention goes very, VERY wrong on live TV for Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day’s Kurt and Dale.
• Neighbors– Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne’s Mac and Kelly get up close and personal in a way NOBODY was expecting.
• Top Five– Rosario Dawson, Anders Holm: Rosario Dawson and Anders Holm’s characters get…saucy…in this truly insane moment from ‘Top Five.’
• Whiplash– Miles Teller: Getting hit by a car ain’t no thang for Miles Teller’s character Andrew in ‘Whiplash.’

BEST VILLAIN

• Jillian Bell, 22 Jump Street
• Peter Dinklage, X-Men: Days of Future Past
• Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
• J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
• Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

BEST MUSICAL MOMENT

• Guardians of the Galaxy– Chris Pratt
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1– Jennifer Lawrence
• Neighbors– Zac Efron, Seth Rogen
• The Skeleton Twins– Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig
• Whiplash– Miles Teller

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE

• Rose Byrne, Neighbors
• Kevin Hart, The Wedding Ringer
• Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
• Chris Rock, Top Five
• Channing Tatum, 22 Jump Street

BEST ON-SCREEN TRANSFORMATION

• Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
• Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
• Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
• Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
• Zoe Saldana, Guardians of the Galaxy