Star Wars: The Force Awakens didn’t snag any Oscars but maybe MTV will hook it up with some trophies.
The all-time domestic box-office champ and sci-fi blockbuster is up for 11 honors at the 25th annual MTV Movie Awards, which airs April 10 (8 ET/PT) and will be hosted by Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. The Force Awakens scored the most nominations of any film, followed by the recent R-rated hit Deadpool with eight and superhero sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron.
All three of those films are in the running for movie of the year along with Creed, Jurassic World and Straight Outta Compton, which also scored a nod for “True Story” — that’s one of two new categories this year, along with a best documentary field featuring recent Oscar winner Amy.
Among individual highlights, Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley is up for four awards — female performance, breakthrough performance, best hero and best fight (alongside best villain nominee Adam Driver) — and Leonardo DiCaprio garnered his 14th and 15th career MTV Movie Awards nominations — male performance and best fight — for The Revenant, which recently won him his first Academy Award.
Fans can vote for the awards at MovieAwards.MTV.com until March 20 at 11:59 p.m. ET, and thanks to a partnership between MTV and Google, they can choose their favorite movie of the year by typing in the keywords “MTV Vote” into Google’s search bar.
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Creed
Deadpool
Jurassic World
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton
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 (20th Century Fox)
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 and Bill Hader – Trainwreck
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan – Fifty Shades of Grey
Leslie Mann and Chris Hemsworth – Vacation
Margot Robbie and Will Smith – Focus
Morena Baccarin and Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool
Rebel Wilson and 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
Source: USA Today
