With the dust settled on the 2013 awards season, several industry darlings and box-office hits -- including Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, Ted and The Dark Knight Rises – will continue soliciting votes into the start of the summer blockbuster season.
MTV on Tuesday announced the categories and nominees for the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, with Quentin Tarantino’s American slave Western and Oscar host Seth MacFarlane’s teddy bear comedy leading the pack with seven nominations apiece. The films are trailed by Silver Linings, with six nominations, and the final installment in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy with five.
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The Avengers, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Pitch Perfect and Skyfall are up for four awards each.
The fan-voted awards will be announced April 14 at the annual ceremony, broadcast live at 9 p.m. ET and delayed at 9 p.m. PT. Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson will host the festivities at the Sony Pictures Lot in Culver City. Voting is open at MovieAwards.MTV.com.
Keeping with its tradition of pop culture relevance, the MTV Movie Awards introduces two new categories this year: best shirtless performance (Channing Tatum, Taylor Lautner, Daniel Craig, Christian Bale and MacFarlane’s Ted are nominated) and best musical moment (Les Miserables, Magic Mike, Pitch Perfect, Silver Linings Playbook, Perks of Being a Wallflower). MTV announced last week that Will Ferrell will receive the inaugural Comedic Genius Award at the ceremony.
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Jennifer Lawrence, who took home the Academy Award for her leading role in Silver Linings, is up for several acting accolades this time around -- including the infamous best kiss. She will vie for best female performance against Mila Kunis, Anne Hathaway, Emma Watson and Wilson, but also will face off with Jessica Chastain again in the best scared-as-s**t performance category for House at the End of the Street (Chastain is nominated for Zero Dark Thirty, not Guillermo del Toro’s Mama).
See a complete list of nominees below.
MOVIE OF THE YEAR (Voting stays live throughout the 2013 Movie Awards Telecast)
Django Unchained
Silver Linings Playbook
Ted
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Mila Kunis, Ted
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Ben Affleck, Argo
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained
Channing Tatum, Magic Mike
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Eddie Redmayne, Les Miserables
Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect
BEST SCARED-AS-S**T PERFORMANCE
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Alexandra Daddario, Texas Chainsaw 3D
Martin Freeman, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Jennifer Lawrence, House at the End of the Street
Suraj Sharma, Life of Pi
BEST ON-SCREEN DUO
Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson, Django Unchained
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane as Ted, Ted
Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo, The Avengers
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, The Campaign
BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE
Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises
Daniel Craig, Skyfall
Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
Seth MacFarlane as Ted, Ted
Channing Tatum, Magic Mike
BEST FIGHT
Jamie Foxx vs. Candieland Henchmen, Django Unchained
Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace, Skyfall
Mark Wahlberg vs. Seth MacFarlane as Ted, Ted
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner vs. Tom Hiddleston, The Avengers
Christian Bale vs. Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises
BEST KISS
Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx, Django Unchained
Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman, Moonrise Kingdom
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg, Ted
Emma Watson and Logan Lerman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
BEST WTF MOMENT
Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson, “Candieland Gets Smoked” in Django Unchained
Denzel Washington, “Final Descent” in Flight
Anna Camp, “Hack-Appella” in Pitch Perfect
Javier Bardem, “Oops … There Goes His Face” in Skyfall
Seth MacFarlane as Ted, “Ted Gets Saucy” in Ted
BEST VILLAIN
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Marion Cotillard, The Dark Knight Rises
Tom Hardy, The Dark Knight Rises
Tom Hiddleston, The Avengers
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash and Adam Rodriguez, Magic Mike
Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean and Hana Mae Lee, Pitch Perfect
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower