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Monday
Apr132015

MTV Movie Awards: The Winners

Manuel here, pretending he’s still part of the demographic for the MTV Movie Awards. Amy Schumer (“Half of you don’t know me and half of you think I’m Meghan Trainor” she quipped at the start of the show) hosted the show which might just as well have been called the “Shailene Woodley” awards. After Jennifer Lawrence and her Hunger Games dominated the past couple of years, unlikely movie star Woodley emerged as the clear winner last night. On top of her MTV Trailblazer award, her film The Fault in Our Stars (the first non-franchise film to win the Movie of the Year award since Wedding Crashers in 2006!) took home 3 awards. Indeed, original and non-franchise films pretty much dominated, even as the show seemed intent on reminding us that Furious 7, Avengers Age of Ultron and plenty more of summer sequels are out or on their way.

I wish I could find that J-Lo reaction to Schumer's Gone Girl/latina joke because it was EVERYTHING. Oh wait...

In other news, Bradley Cooper may be 3-for-0 at the Oscars, but he won “Best Male Performance” over presumed favorites Chris Pratt (whose Marvel film went empty-handed), and Faults own Ansel Egort, Meryl Streep won her very first popcorn award and Zac Efron won “Best Shirtless Performance” for his beautifully psychopathic performance in Neighbors which sounds about right, don’t you think?

Check the full list of winners below

So many awards for Shai & company and we still didn't get a Laura Dern win?

Movie of the Year
The Fault in Our Stars 

Best Female Performance
Shailene Woodley – Fault in Our Stars 

Best Male Performance
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper 

Best Comedic Performance 
Channing Tatum – 22 Jump Street 

Breakthrough Performance
Dylan O’Brien – The Maze Runner 

Best Kiss
Ansel Elgort & Shailene Woodley – Fault in Our Stars

Best Duo
Zac Efron & Dave Franco – Neighbors

Dave Franco, doing what we all wish we could do.

Best Scared-as-S*** Performance
Jennifer Lopez – The Boy Next Door

euphemisms next door indoors

Best Shirtless Performance
Zac Efron – Neighbors 

Best Fight
Dylan O’Brien vs. Will Poulter – The Maze Runner 

Best WTF Moment 
Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne – Neighbors 


Best Musical Moment
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part  

Best On-Screen Transformation 
Elizabeth Banks – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Best Villain
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods


Did everyone watch the ad-heavy show in its entirety? Do you think Faults win somehow presages a move towards franchise fatigue or will The Avengers, Jurassic World, Stars Wars: The Force Awakens prove us wrong when they sweep this next year?

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I saw Neighbors a few weeks ago on HBO and wow. I'm so glad critics like Nathaniel guided me to it. I'm a ride-or-die Rose Byrne fan (Ellen Parsons forever) so I expected to enjoy her, but it's really an intelligent, sexy, compelling exploration of adulthood. So much smarter and tighter and better-acted than it needed to be. If every "bro comedy" (which it's sneakily not) were that good, the movies would be very different. And if that writing/directing team wants to put Judd Apatow out of business they can be my guest.

We were so lucky to get Byrne's performance AND Emily Blunt's in The Edge of Tomorrow in the same year. Talent and versatility for days.

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterHayden W.

Streep is now a MTV Movie Award Winner!!!

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJamie

I'm glad Cooper won. MTV finally chose right. Say what you want about Sniper, but he was fantastic in it.

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJosh

@Jamie

These are the moments that makes life worth living.

8D

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterSonja

"Dave Franco, doing what we all wish we could do."

This caption would only be more appropriate if you the GIF was from later that same moment when Franco grabbed Efron's junk.

Can someone tell me what the Gone Girl joke was?

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterDJDeeJay

So Elizabeth Banks gets an award for transforming herself? Shouldn't that award go to makeup and hairstylists? Or is even asking that question a bridge too far for the MTV Movie Awards?

Zac Efron is the Tom Hanks of the MTV Movie Awards!!! Back to Back Best Shirtless Performances!!

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJoseph W

Zac Efron is the Tom Hanks of the MTV Movie Awards!!! Back to Back Best Shirtless Performances!!

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJoseph W

I love that Meryl won.

Now Streep and Lopez have another thing to bond over.

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterdela

@dela

Don't forget that Marisa Tomei also has one, too!

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered Commenter3rtful

Dammit. I just needed Rosamond Pike to win ONE of the three awards she was nominated for so that she could get a televised acceptance speech.

April 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterConMan

DJ, The Gone Girl joke was something like "It's a movie about what one crazed white woman and all Latinas do if you cheat on them": http://mattsgifs.com/post/116251211540

Joseph: may Zefron continue to give us shirtless performances and winning this every year!

April 13, 2015 | Registered CommenterManuel Betancourt

The MTV movie awards seemed so dated this year and generic :\ Not memorable at all, unfortunately.

April 16, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterCourtney
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