The 2016 MTV Movie Awards nominations were announced Tuesday, in case you’re looking for the year’s best movie according to people who fill out online polls. The big winners among this year’s nominees are Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is up for 11 golden popcorn statues, and Deadpool, nominated for eight.
The nominees for Movie of the Year are:
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Creed
Deadpool
Jurassic World
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton
You may have noticed that one of the nominees is one of the worst mainstream movies in recent years (roar).
The MTV Movie Awards’ strategy of polling 12-year-olds has generated some interesting results over the years. Previous Movie of the Year awards have gone to Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: The Worst of the Sequels, Wedding Crashers, Napoleon Dynamite and There’s Something About Mary. Twilight movies won four years in a row.
But the MTV Movie Awards have one major advantage over the more pretentious Oscars: a willingness to trumpet genre films. Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Pulp Fiction, Scream and The Matrix all won in years when the Academy was busy picking yawns like American Beauty and The English Patient or cinematic antichrist, Forrest Gump.
#DinnerForSchmucks was really funny I recommend it, unless this think your to good for stupid humor, then piss off
— MTV Movie Awards (@MTV_MovieAwards) August 21, 2010
The MTV Movie Awards is also known for its slightly more inventive categories. This year includes “Best Hero,” which Charlize Theron will obviously win for Mad Max: Fury Road, “Best Villain,” which will probably go to Adam Driver, and “Best Virtual Performance,” a category the Oscars would have added a decade ago if Academy members could figure out how to access the shared Google spreadsheet. It’s just too bad this year won’t see the return of the “Best Scared-As-Shit Performance” Award.
Here’s the full list of nominees for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards:
True Story
- Concussion
- Joy
- Steve Jobs
- Straight Outta Compton
- The Big Short
- The Revenant
Documentary
- Amy
- Cartel Land
- He Named Me Malala
- The Hunting Ground
- The Wolfpack
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
Best Female Performance
- Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
- Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect 2
- Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
- Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
- Morena Baccarin, Deadpool
Best Male Performance
- Chris Pratt, Jurassic World
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
- Matt Damon, The Martian
- Michael B. Jordan, Creed
- Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
- Will Smith, Concussion
Breakthrough Performance
- Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
- Brie Larson, Room
- Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
- John Boyega, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- O’Shea Jackson Jr., Straight Outta Compton
Best Comedic Performance
- Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
- Kevin Hart, Ride Along 2
- Melissa McCarthy, Spy
- Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect 2
- Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
- Will Ferrell, Get Hard
Best Action Performance
- Chris Pratt, Jurassic World
- Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas
- Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
- John Boyega, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
- Vin Diesel, Furious 7
Best Hero
- Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
- Chris Evans, Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas
- Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
- Paul Rudd, Ant-Man
Best Villain
- Adam Driver, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Ed Skrein, Deadpool
- Hugh Keays-Byrne, Mad Max: Fury Road
- James Spader, Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Samuel L. Jackson, Kingsman: The Secret Service
- Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Best Virtual Performance
- Amy Poehler, Inside Out
- Andy Serkis, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Jack Black, Kung Fu Panda 3
- James Spader, Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Lupita Nyong’o, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Seth MacFarlane, Ted 2
Ensemble Cast
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Furious 7
- Pitch Perfect 2
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
- Trainwreck
Best Kiss
- Amy Schumer & Bill Hader, Trainwreck
- Dakota Johnson & Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey
- Leslie Mann & Chris Hemsworth, Vacation
- Margot Robbie & Will Smith, Focus
- Morena Baccarin & Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
- Rebel Wilson & Adam DeVine, Pitch Perfect 2
Best Fight
- Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) vs. Ajax (Ed Skrein), Deadpool
- Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) vs. The Bear, The Revenant
- Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) vs. Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), Mad Max: Fury Road
- Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) vs. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Rey (Daisy Ridley) vs. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) vs. Lia (Nargis Fakhri), Spy
