MTV Movie Awards
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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.
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 will change, as MTV and Survivor producer Mark Burnett (who will take over duties for the 2007 awards) announced the '07 edition will be broadcast live on MTV for the first time on June 3, 2007 in Los Angeles. What will happen in terms of technical gaffes remains to be seen.
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[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 New Filmmaker
- Best Virtual Performance (2003)
[edit] Lifetime Achievement 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. The category existed as a spoof award through 1997. In 1998, the category became serious, which such winners as Clint Howard in 1998, Tom Cruise in 2005, and Jim Carrey and Spike Lee in 2006 [1].
[edit] Years
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 2000s
[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).
[edit] Notes
- ^ Mark Burnett signs on to produce a live MTV Movie Awards
- ^ Armagedd'NSync is not a traditional movie spoof, but rather a trailer parody created by an independent director Russell Bates. However, according to the creator's web-site (last retrieved on 13 August 2006), it has been featured at MTV Movie Awards 1998.
- ^ This is not a traditional movie spoof, either, but rather a short dialogue between Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and two film industry agents who offer him to make "a sequel".
[edit] External links
| MTV award shows around the world |
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| Video Music Awards or other music awards |
| United States • Asia • Australia • Brazil • Europe • India • Latin America • Japan • Philippines • TMF • Russia |
| Movie Awards |
| United States • Asia |
