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The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV (Music Television). It also contains movie parodies that used official movie footage with hosts and other celebrities and music performances. The nominees are decided by a special panel at Tenth Planet Productions, the production company headed by Joel Gallen, who also created the MTV Movie Awards. Winners are decided by the general public. Presently voting is done through MTV's official website through a special Movie Awards link.
[edit] Production process
Unlike sister event the MTV Video Music Awards (which are broadcast live), the MTV Movie Awards (up to 2006) were taped and then broadcast a few days later[1]. The entire production was taped in a completely different order than what the MTV viewing audience saw. For example, the show's host would tape all his/her monologues and introductions at one time, and all the musical acts would perform one after the other. Celebrities would often only appear at the live taping for the announcement of their award category, and members of the general audience fill their vacant seats during the other times. Through clever editing, MTV was able to present to its viewing audience an awards show which appears to be taped in live sequence, with celebrities sticking around for the whole show. This method of production allowed foul language to be edited from the show and also is more convenient for celebrities. The actual live taping aired same-day on pay-per-view channels in most metropolitan cities around the world. Some awards telecasts had also been shown in television syndication. However, in 2007, this changed, as MTV and Survivor producer Mark Burnett (who took over duties from Joel Gallen for the 2007 awards) announced the '07 edition would be broadcast live on MTV for the first time on June 3, 2007 in Los Angeles.
[edit] Categories
- Best Movie
- Best Male Performance
- Best Female Performance
- Best Breakthrough Performance Male
- Best Breakthrough Performance Female
- Best On-Screen Team
- Best Villain
- Best Comedic Performance
- Best Song From a Movie (Best musical performance)
- Best Kiss
- Best Action Sequence
- Best Fight
- Best Frightened Performance
- Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet
- Best Summer Movie So Far
- Best New Filmmaker
- Sexiest Performance
[edit] Lifetime Achievement Award/MTV Generation Award
MTV has awarded at least three fictional characters their version of the lifetime achievement award: Godzilla, Jason Voorhees, and Chewbacca. Jason was awarded the honor in 1992. Godzilla was awarded it in 1996, and Chewbacca followed in receiving the award the following year. (Carrie Fisher presented him with a medal identical to that which Han Solo and Luke Skywalker received at the ceremony at the end of Star Wars) The category existed as a spoof award through 1997, where other recipients included Jackie Chan and Richard Roundtree. In 1998, when Clint Howard was given the award as a continued spoof he took it seriously, which the producers admit is understandable considering his long and illustrious resume. The award was retired in 1998, but reemerged 7 years later (as the MTV Generation Award); Tom Cruise in 2005, Jim Carrey and Spike Lee in 2006, Mike Myers in 2007, and now currently Adam Sandler for 2008.[2]
[edit] Film parodies
Every year on the MTV Movie Awards, one or more movies are chosen out of the most popular films of the year and spoofed. This usually includes a lot of sound and video montage, replacing some of the original cast with other actors (commonly, the hosts of this year's show), combining them with famous television shows, and general mockery of the film's most notable aspects. The length and diversity of the spoofs can vary greatly, from one dialogue (such as in 2005) to several long scenes, including fighting and action sequences (2003).
MTV Movie Awards Film Spoofs by Year
| Year |
Film |
Starring |
Watch |
| 1995 |
Pulp Fiction |
Samuel L Jackson |
| 1996 |
Twister |
Ben Stiller
Janeane Garofalo
Jay Leno |
|
| Braveheart |
Bob Newhart |
|
| Clueless |
The Golden Girls |
|
| Se7en |
William Shatner (in all three key roles) |
|
| Interview with the Vampire |
Adam West
Frank Gorshin |
|
| 1997 |
The Lost World: Jurassic Park |
|
|
| Romeo and Juliet |
|
|
| Scream |
|
|
| 1998 |
Godzilla, Taxi (combined in one video) |
Christopher Lloyd (as Jim Ignatowski) |
|
| Dawson's Creek |
|
|
| Armagedd'NSync (Armageddon) [19] |
'N Sync
Lisa Kudrow
Clint Howard |
Creator's web-site |
| 1999 |
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace |
Lisa Kudrow (as herself)
Andy Dick |
Creator's web-site |
| Amalgam of Risky Business, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, She's All That, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Sixteen Candles, Varsity Blues, The Breakfast Club, and Cruel Intentions |
Alyson Hannigan
Jaime Pressly
Chris Owen
Charlie O'Connell |
|
| 2000 |
Sex and the Matrix (Sex and the City, The Matrix, combined) |
Sarah Jessica Parker (as Carrie Bradshaw)
Jimmy Fallon (Neo)
Vince Vaughn ("White Rabbit") |
|
| Mission: Impossible II |
Ben Stiller (as Tom Crooze, Tom Cruise's stunt double) |
Creator's web-site |
| 2001 |
Cast Away |
Andy Dick |
Creator's web-site |
| The Mummy Returns |
Jimmy Fallon
Snoop Dogg
Kirsten Dunst
Rob Schneider
Oded Fehr |
|
| Adam Sandler Skit |
Adam Sandler
Jimmy Fallon
Britney Spears
Kirsten Dunst |
| 2002 |
Lord of the Piercing (Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) |
Jack Black (as Jack the Elf - Ring-bearer)
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Arwen) |
Creator's web-site |
| Jack Black: Spider-Man (Spider-Man) |
Jack Black (as Spider-Man)
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Mary Jane Watson / Wonder Woman) |
Creator's web-site |
| Panic Room |
Jack Black
Will Ferrell |
Creator's web-site |
| 2003 |
MTV: Reloaded (The Matrix Reloaded) |
Justin Timberlake (as "a One")
Seann William Scott ("a One", Agent Scott)
Will Ferrell (Larry the Architect)
Randall Duk Kim (Keymaker)
Wanda Sykes (Oracle) |
Creator's web-site |
| 2004 |
Mean Girls |
Lindsay Lohan (as herself)
Adam Brody (as himself)
Jamie Lee Curtis (as herself)
Kate Hudson (as herself)
Matthew Perry (as himself) |
|
| Kill Bill |
Lindsay Lohan (as Beatrix Kiddo)
Andy Dick (as Pai Mei) |
|
| Interview with Jim Caviezel |
Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy |
|
| Negotiating with Peter Jackson [20] |
Vince Vaughn
Ben Stiller
Peter Jackson |
Creator's web-site |
| 2005 |
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith |
Jimmy Fallon (as Anakin Skywalker) |
Creator's web-site |
| Batman Begins |
Jimmy Fallon
Jon Heder (as Napoleon Dynamite)
Andy Dick |
Creator's web-site |
| 2006 |
Mission: Impossible III |
Jessica Alba
Topher Grace
Flavor Flav |
Creator's web-site |
| King Kong |
Jessica Alba |
Creator's web-site |
| The Da Vinci Code |
Jessica Alba (as herself, based on Sophie Neveu)
Jimmy Fallon (himself, based on Jacques Saunière and Robert Langdon)
Andy Dick (himself, based on Silas)
Gary Cole (himself)
Chris Daughtry Himself |
Creator's web-site |
| 2007 |
Transformers, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Babel, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Departed and 300 |
Optimus Prime
Sarah Silverman
Shia LaBeouf
Jennifer Hudson
Meryl Streep
Brad Pitt
Will Smith
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jack Nicholson
Matt Damon
Gerard Butler |
|
| 2008 |
none |
none |
|
[edit] References
- Steve Hochman, Awards as American as 'Pie' and Other Silliness; Television, L.A. Times, June 7, 2000, Calendar page 3;
[edit] External links
2008 MTV Movie Awards
United States
