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  • 15
    Apr
    2013
    12:16pm, EDT

    7 wackiest moments from the MTV Movie Awards

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

    "The Avengers," Bradley Cooper, and Jamie Foxx were among the big winners at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. But the show is more about moments than filling trophy cases. Here are seven moments that had us doing double-takes. 

    Bottomless contest
    Seth Rogen, Danny McBride and and Zac Efron presented the award for "best shirtless perfoirmance" and decided to stage their own "bottomless" contest, with Rogen revealing a forest of fake hair and McBride displaying a giant chastity belt. Efron did pretty much nothin'.

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    Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Danny McBride presented the best shirtless performance award with a bottomless contest of their own.

    Speaking of shirtless...
    While Taylor Lautner won the award for best shirtless performance, he sure didn't look the part as he accepted the honor, hitting the stage in a fat suit. Don't worry fans, it's not real.

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    Taylor Lautner spoofed his win of best shirtless performance by wearing a fat suit.

    Will Ferrell gets a Kanye West moment
    Will Ferrell accepted the comedic genius award in a money-printed suit and with a fake Chinese family. But he wasn't fully in control of the jokes. "Parks and Rec" star Aubrey Plaza tried to pull a Kanye West and yank Ferrell's trophy out of his hands. He seemed confused, she seemed out of it, and awkwardness ensued. MTV says the moment was unscripted and that Plaza was asked to leave the show after attempting the prank. She jokingly later thanked West on Twitter for the idea.

    Where was Jennifer?
    Jennifer Lawrence shared the best kiss award with Bradley Cooper but wasn't there to accept it. She also won the best female performance award but since she wasn't there, the award wasn't handed out on the broadcast. A scheduling conflict reportedly kept the young star away.

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    Rebel gets risque
    To no one's surprise, host Rebel Wilson pushed the envelope with her jokes, touting a stuffed koala named Chlamydia and pretending to give birth (to a doll) during a striptease.

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    Rebel Wilson was a rebellious host indeed.

    Date my daughter
    Jamie Foxx attended the awards with his lovely daughter Corinne Bisho, 19. When Foxx received the MTV Generation award, he mentioned repeatedly in his rambling speech that she is "gorgeous and single." Thanks, dad?

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    Jamie Foxx, right, and his daughter Corinne Bishop at the awards.

    Brad Pitt's hair
    Pitt presented the award for best movie to "The Avengers," but appeared not to have combed his hair or washed before attending the awards.

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    Brad Pitt wasn't his usual glamorous self while presenting the best movie award.

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  • 14
    Apr
    2013
    10:01pm, EDT

    MTV Movie Awards honor kisses, villains, shirtlessness

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, TODAY

    The Avengers assembled Sunday night in Los Angeles, with the hit comic-book movie taking home three golden popcorn trophies at the MTV Movie Awards.

    The blockbuster hit based on Marvel Comics superheroes won the best fight award, and Tom Hiddleston, who played evil Loki in that film, won for best villain. But there was an even bigger award ahead, as "The Avengers" won the show's final honor, best movie, an honor presented by Brad Pitt.

    Bradley Cooper claimed two honors, winning for best male performance for "Silver Linings Playbook" and sharing the best kiss award with Jennifer Lawrence.

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    "No way that this movie would've had a life without the fans," Cooper said in his best kiss acceptance speech. Lawrence was not in attendance, but Cooper praised her as "great to kiss."

    When it came to an award that only MTV could give -- Best WTF Moment -- Samuel L. Jackson and Jamie Foxx won for a violent Southern plantation shoot-em-up scene from Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."

    Emma Watson was awarded the MTV Trailblazer Award, which is given to a young actor who has inspired others even at an early age. Watson, 23, is best known for her role as Harry Potter's brainy pal Hermione, but has also acted in "My Week With Marilyn" and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."


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    Watson joked that when she looked back on her career, she remembered many things, "notably how bad my hair was in the first Harry Potter film."

    Will Ferrell won the comedic genius award, and accepted it while wearing sunglasses and a suit that looked as if it was made out of $100 bills.

    Taylor Lautner won the best shirtless performance award for his role as hunky shape-shifting wolf Jacob Black in "Breaking Dawn Part 2." Onstage, Lautner hid his much-vaunted figure with a fake fat suit, and joked, "for us shirtless actors out there, this is like the Oscar."

    Seth Rogen, Danny McBride and and Zac Efron presented Lautner's award and decided to stage their own "bottomless" contest, with Rogen revealing a forest of fake hair and McBride displaying a giant chastity belt.

    Jamie Foxx won the MTV Generation award, the night's highest honor. Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock and Johnny Depp are among those who've won the award in the past.

    Australian actress Rebel Wilson hosted the show and wasn't afraid to joke about everything from North Korea to a stuffed koala bear she claimed was named "Chlamydia." She also won the breakthrough performance award for her role in "Pitch Perfect," which also won for best musical moment.

    Also during the show, Liam Hemsworth presented a short teaser from "Catching Fire," the second film in the "Hunger Games" movie series. Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence star in the much-awaited movie, which comes to theaters in November.

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  • 7
    Apr
    2013
    12:09pm, EDT

    Best bets: Jackie Robinson movie hits home

    By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, NBC News

    It's a week for remembering -- remembering Jackie Robinson in the new biopic "42," remembering the importance of the 1980s in a National Geographic special, and remembering the movies of the past year at the MTV Movie Awards.

    FRIDAY: '42'
    The memorable life of baseball player Jackie Robinson was told in 1950's "Jackie Robinson Story," just three years after he broke the sport's color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In that movie, Robinson played himself, but in the new film "42," opening Friday, actor Chadwick Boseman will take on the role. Harrison Ford plays Branch Rickey, the Dodgers president and GM who signed Robinson, and Christopher Meloni is manager Leo Durocher, who famously told the other players that if they objected to Robinson, he'd see that they were traded. Play ball! (Opens April 5.)

    SUNDAY: MTV Movie Awards
    Sure, the MTV Movie Awards are no Academy Awards -- the gold and black popcorn trophy is nowhere as prestigious as Oscar. But they're fun to watch nonetheless. Where else would you see categories like "best scared as (expletive) performance," or "summer's biggest teen bad (expletive)"? Comedian and actress Rebel Wilson hosts, which should make for a lively night.

    SUNDAY: 'The '80s: The Decade That Made Us'
    The 1980s weren't all Rubik's Cubes and Pac-Man. The decade spawned a technological and cultural revolution that still affects us all today. Brat Packer Rob Lowe hosts a three-night look at the era that examines its politics, entertainment, cultural changes and more.  (April 14, 8 p.m., National Geographic Channel.)

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  • 3
    Jun
    2012
    11:50pm, EDT

    'Hunger Games' is big winner at MTV Movie Awards

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    Jennifer Aniston, Emma Stone and Russell Brand are among the stars to walk the red carpet and pick up prizes at the annual ceremony.

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    By Reuters

    "The Hunger Games" and its stars came up big winners at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, sweeping four categories in what proved to be a tame evening at the typically outrageous awards show.

    But the coveted movie of the year trophy, voted for by the audience online throughout the show, went to "The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn: Part 1," beating out "The Hunger Games" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2."

    "The Hunger Games" picked up awards for best male and female performances by Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence, best transformation by Elizabeth Banks and best fight.

    The night's more irreverent categories such as best on-screen dirtbag went to "Horrible Bosses" star Jennifer Aniston for her role as a foul-mouthed dentist, and best kiss went to "Twilight" leads Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson for the fourth year in a row.

    Host Russell Brand, known for his raunchy antics, played up his cockney accent and launched into jokes about his short-lived marriage to singer Katy Perry, thanking Kim Kardashian for "taking the pressure off me" due to her brief marriage to Kris Humphries.

    His barbs were also directed at pop star Justin Bieber, Charlie Sheen, John Travolta, Kanye West and "Shame" actor Michael Fassbender, for "profiting from sex addiction."

    Notable moments came from "Batman" Christian Bale who gave an emotional introduction to an exclusive trailer for the upcoming film "The Dark Knight Rises," after footage of Heath Ledger as the Joker was shown from the second installment of the Christopher Nolan "Batman" franchise.


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    "Prometheus" stars Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender feigned a fight scene while presenting, and "Magic Mike" stars Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello tempted the audience with a near strip-tease.

    "The Descendants" star Shailene Woodley picked up the breakthrough performance award, "Spiderman" actress Emma Stone was given the Trailblazer award and "Dark Shadows" actor Johnny Depp was presented the 2012 Generation Award for his prolific career spanning three decades.

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  • 1
    May
    2012
    5:00pm, EDT

    'Hunger Games' to battle 'Bridesmaids' at MTV Movie Awards

    By Piya Sinha-Roy, Reuters

    LOS ANGELES -- "The Hunger Games" and "Bridesmaids" will battle for the upcoming MTV Movie Awards as each landed eight nominations on Tuesday to edge out "The Twilight Saga," which picked up only two nods for the widely-watched television program.

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    "The Hunger Games"

    Post-apocalyptic action film "The Hunger Games," which has stormed box offices with $600 million in ticket sales, earned nods for movie of the year and best cast. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth landed in the best actress, actor and breakthrough performance categories, respectively.

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    Not to be outdone in the hunt for MTV's golden box of popcorn trophy, female-led comedy "Bridesmaids" picked up nominations for movie of the year and best cast, while the film's writer and star Kristen Wiig scored best actress and best comedic performance nods.

    Lawrence and Wiig will be up against Emma Stone, Emma Watson and Rooney Mara for best actress, while Hutcherson will be competing with Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ryan Gosling for best actor.

    Joining "Hunger Games" and "Bridesmaids" in the best movie race is civil-rights drama "The Help," the final installment of the "Harry Potter" films, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1."

    "The Twilight Saga" picked up only one other nod in the best kiss category for stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, proving to be a snub after the popular series' third film, "Eclipse," led with eight nominations and five wins last year.

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    "Bridesmaids."

    Stewart and Pattinson have strong contenders in the best kiss category this year from Lawrence and Hutcherson in "The Hunger Games," Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams in "The Vow," Rupert Grint and Emma Watson in "Harry Potter," and Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in "Crazy, Stupid, Love."

    The MTV Movie Awards, which this year take place in Los Angeles on June 3, annually are among the youth-oriented cable TV channel's most-watched programs, and they serve as a launch pad for many of Hollywood's movie summer blockbuster films aimed mostly at young audiences.

    Unlike film awards from industry and critics groups, the MTV show offers irreverent categories like best kiss and best fight, which this year includes nominees from "21 Jump Street," "Harry Potter," "The Hunger Games," "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" and "Warrior."


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    Fans vote online in 12 categories and a group of directors pick the winner of the breakthrough performance category, where Hemsworth will compete with Elle Fanning, Melissa McCarthy, Rooney Mara and Shailene Woodley.

    New categories for 2012 include best movie cast, best music, best on-screen dirtbag and gut-wrenching performance, which features nominations from "21 Jump Street," "Bridesmaids," "Drive," "The Help" and "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol."

    While MTV has yet to announce a host for the 2012 Movie Awards, New York indie-pop band fun. will be performing at the show.

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Gael Cooper is the movies editor for TODAY.com and a pop-culture junkie. She is the co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?" and "The Totally Sweet '90s."

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