MTV goes to the movies

The advent of summer is at hand. And with the rise in temperature comes the announcement of the nominees for the annual MTV Movie Awards. Surely the baddest, quirkiest, most highly-charged awards for motion pictures. Can you name another awardgiving body with categories like Best Scared-As-s**t Performance or a Best Shirtless Performance? But these and more all happen at MTV and I say all because MTV started out as a music channel showing the most edgy, most innovative music videos. So their movie choices are no different.

This year’s nominees are apt choices for the honors with badass chicks, aliens, super and anti-heroes and even washboard abs all gunning for that Popcorn trophy in the most epic of battles for movie awards. And leading the race with seven nominations each are the space adventure Guardians of the Galaxy with that awesome soundtrack music on a cassette tape; the tear-jerking love story The Fault In Our Stars; and that totally grossed-out comedy Neighbors.

Fan voting has started online. So you can now make sure that your favorites will bring home the trophies by voting for them. Simply go to www.MovieAwards.MTV.com site and vote. You can vote only up to April 11 but voting for the Movie of The Year will continue throughout the live telecast of the show, which will be seen here in the Philippines, on April 13 at 8 a.m. That will be over MTV Pinoy, of course. And now, here are the nominees in the 2015 MTV Movie Awards.

Movie of the Year: American Sniper, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1; Guardians of the Galaxy; Gone Girl; The Fault In Our Stars; Boyhood; Whiplash; and Selma.

Best Female Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1; Emma Stone, Birdman: Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance; Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars; Reese Witherspoon, Wild; and Scarlett Johansson, Lucy.

Best Male Performance: Bradley Cooper, American Sniper; Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy; Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars; Miles Teller, Whiplash; and Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher.

Best Scared-As-s**t Performance: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl; Annabelle Wallis, Annabelle; Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door; Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner; Zach Gilford, The Purge.

Breakthrough Performance: Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars; Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl; David Oyelowo, Selma; Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner; and Elan Coltrane, Boyhood.

Best Shirtless Performance: Zac Efron, Neighbors; Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy; Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher; Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars; Kate Upton, The Other Woman.

Best Duo: Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, 22 Jump Street; Zac Efron and Dave Franco, Neighbors; Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars; Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, Guardians of the Galaxy; James Franco and Seth Rogen, The Interview.

Best Fight: Jonah Hill vs. Jillian Bell, 22 Jump Street; Chris Evans vs. Sebastian Stan, Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Dylan O’Brien vs. Will Poulter, The Maze Runner; Seth Rogen vs. Zac Efron, Neighbors; Edward Norton vs. Michael Keaton, Birdman: Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.

Best Kiss: Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley, The Fault In Our Stars; James Franco and Seth Rogen; The Interview; Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man; Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans, Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Rose Byrne and Halston Sage, Neighbors.

Best WTF Moment: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, Neighbors; Jonah Hill, 22 Jump Street; Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, Horrible Bosses 2; Miles Teller, Whiplash; Rosario Dawson and Anders Holm, Top Five.

Best Villain: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl; J.K. Simmons, Whiplash; Jillian Bell, 22 Jump Street; Meryl Streep, Into The Woods; Peter Dinklage, X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Best Musical Moment: Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay; Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy; Seth Rogen and Zach Efron, Neighbors; Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, The Skeleton Twins; Miles Teller, Whiplash.

Best Comedic Performance: Channing Tatum, 22 Jump Street; Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy; Rose Byrne, Neighbors; Chris Rock, Top Five; Kevin Hart, The Wedding Ringer.

Best On-screen Transformation: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything; Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1; Zoe Saldana, Guardians of the Galaxy; Steve Carell, Foxcatcher; Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood.

Vote for your favorites now and find out the results in another epically funny, unpredictable, over-the-top show from MTV. There will be exclusive, never-before-seen moments from some of the most highly-anticipated upcoming films, plus lots of actors and your favorite pop stars.