2009 MTV Movie Awards Winners
Twilight, the popular vampire drama based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Stephenie Meyer,cleaned up during the ceremony, taking home five out of the seven nominations including the top honor, Best Film prize in Los Angeles.
Other winners include “High School Musical 3″, “Yes Man”, “The Dark Knight” and “Baby Mama”. “High School Musical 3″ brought home two kudos for Best Male Performance and Breakthrough Performance Female, while the others took in one each. “Yes Man” gave Jim Carrey a Best Comedic Performance win, “The Dark Knight” won Best Villain for Heath Ledger and “Baby Mama” earned Amy Poehler her Best WTF Moment.
The MTV audience was treated to exclusive first looks at the highly anticipated movie releases of 2009 including “The Twilight Saga: New Moon“, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince“, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen“, “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” and “Public Enemies.”
The 2009 MTV Movie Awards was aired live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California starting at 9 P.M. ET on Sunday, May 31. Hosted by Saturday Night Live” star Andy Samberg, it saw musical performances from Kings of Leon and Eminem. Presenters of the night were Chris Pine, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kiefer Sutherland, LeAnn Rimes and Anna Faris among others.
2009 MTV Movie Award Nominations – Slumdog Against Twilight
The hit films “Twilight” and “Slumdog Millionaire” get ready to battle it out as MTV: Music Television announces this year’s final nominees for the “2009 MTV MOVIE AWARDS.” Pitting Hollywood vampires against the Mumbai slums, the movies’ rabid fans proved their loyalty as they sent both flicks to the head of the cinematic pack with each film receiving nominations in six award categories including “BEST MOVIE,” “BEST KISS” and “BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE MALE.”
MTV will up the cinematic fun quotient this year by debuting the two new categories “BEST SONG FROM A MOVIE” and “BEST WTF MOMENT.” Fans will get the chance to vote on such movie soundtrack hits as “The Climb” from “Hannah Montana: The Movie” as well as pick this year’s most jaw-dropping “WTF” movie moment that left audiences speechless such as the naked break-up scene in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” The 18th annual awards show will be executive produced by Emmy Award(R) winning producer Mark Burnett. Hosted by Andy Samberg, the “2009 MTV MOVIE AWARDS” will be broadcast LIVE from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA on Sunday, May 31st at 9p.m./8p.m. C.
Mike Myers Revealed As MTV Movie Awards Host
Mike Myers will host the MTV Movie Awards on June 1.
The ‘Shrek’ star is looking forward to taking charge of the Los Angeles ceremony – which distributes awards including Best Screen Kiss and Best Villain – because he thinks it will be a fun event.
He said: “Hosting the MTV Movie Awards is like a party, but without having to do beer runs in your mom’s mini van. We do beer runs in Will Smith’s four-storey motor home.”
This will not be the first time the 45-year-old actor has hosted the awards.
In 1997, he presided over the ceremony where winners included Tom Cruise and Claire Danes.
Previous hosts of the awards include Will Smith, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Last year’s host, comedian Sarah Silverman, caused controversy when she made jokes about troubled 26-year-old singer Britney Spears.
She said: “Britney Spears is amazing. She is in her twenties and she has already accomplished everything she’s going to accomplish in her life. It’s mind blowing!
“And have you seen Britney’s kids? Oh my god, they are the most adorable mistakes you will ever see! They are as cute as the hairless vagina they came out of.”
Nominations for the awards, which will be held in Universal City, California, will be announced next month.
