300, Pirates Top MTV Movie Noms
Spartans versus pirates? The 2007 MTV Movie Awards is shaping up to be a bloodbath.
This time around, the numbers are on 300’s side, with the agro period flick raking in a leading five nominations, including one in the all important Best Movie category as well as a Best Performance nod for leading warrior Gerard Butler.
Sadly, Best Supporting Performance by a Loincloth was not among the categories up for grabs this year.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest also made for a strong nominee, wrangling four nominations, while The Devil Wears Prada, Blades of Glory and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhastan each man-wrestled their way to three nods apiece.
The films will all vie for a chance to take home the Golden Popcornóthe most coveted of all gilded snack-food-based movie awardsófor Best Movie, with Little Miss Sunshine rounding out the top category.
In addition to nods for Butler and the flick itself, 300 scored nominations for Lena Headey, who snagged a Breakthrough Performance nomination, Rodrigo Santoro, who got name-checked as Best Villain, and Butler versus “the ‹ber-Immortal,” whose big-screen combat earned the duo a nod for Best Fight.
Among their competition for the category is Blades’ boys Will Ferrell and Jon Heder and the man-on-man stylings of Borat’s Sacha Baron Cohen and Ken Davitian.
As for the Pirates’ booty, Johnny Depp scored a requisite Best Performance nod, facing off against both Butler and costar Keira Knightleyólast year, MTV melded its separate actor and actress categories for the more gender-neutral grouping. Fellow eye candy Orlando Bloom, meanwhile, failed to make the solo nominee cut.
Cohen also managed to earn himself a Best Comedic Performance nod for his sister-kissing Kazakh reporter, going up against Ferrell and, in something of a surprise, Emily Blunt, among others.
Blunt, who earned her nod for the scene-stealing assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, also happened to steal the thunder of the movie’s supposed star Anne Hathaway, who failed to earn a nomination. Blunt managed a pair of them, including one for Breakthrough Performance.
Her competition in the latter category includes Justin Timberlake, who earned an out-of-left-field nomination for his not so heralded turn in Alpha Dog.
The big showdown for Best Kiss pits Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’s Ferrell and Cohen (who at least have the precedent of a Brokeback Mountain win in the same category last year) against The Holiday’s Cameron Diaz and Jude Law, Stomp the Yard’s Columbus Short and Meagan Good, Invincible’s Mark Walhlberg and Elizabeth Banks and Little Man’s Marlon Wayans and Brittany Daniel.
In addition to the same old categories, this year MTV is rolling out two new awards, one of which will be completely user-generated.
Best Summer Movie You Haven’t Seen Yet, which as its name suggests honors a buzz-worthy flick that has yet to be released, features an inaugural slate of Evan Almighty, Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, Hairspray, Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, Rush Hour 3 and Transformers.
The other new category, Best Movie Spoof, will be populated entirely from entries from viewers, who can submit their own movie short parodies through MTV.com.
As always, the winners will be determined by viewer votes through both the cable net’s Website and text message. Sarah Silverman hosts the ceremony, taking place June 3 in Los Angeles.
Here’s a complete list of nominees for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards:
Best Movie
300
Blades of Glory
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Little Miss Sunshine
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Best Performance
Gerard Butler, 300
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
BeyoncÈ Knowles, Dreamgirls
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Breakthrough Performance
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Lena Headey, 300
Columbus Short, Stomp the Yard
Jaden Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Justin Timberlake, Alpha Dog
Best Comedic Performance
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Will Ferrell, Blades of Glory
Adam Sandler, Click
Ben Stiller, Night at the Museum
Best Kiss
Cameron Diaz & Jude Law, The Holiday
Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Columbus Short & Meagan Good, Stomp the Yard
Mark Wahlberg & Elizabeth Banks, Invincible
Marlon Wayans & Brittany Daniel, Little Man
Best Villain
Tobin Bell, Saw III
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Bill Nighy, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Rodrigo Santoro, 300
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Best Fight
Jack Black & Hector Jimenez versus Los Duendes, Nacho Libre
Gerard Butler versus “the ‹ber-Immortal,” 300
Sacha Baron Cohen versus Ken Davitian, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Will Ferrell versusJon Heder, Blades of Glory
Uma Thurman versus Anna Faris, My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Best Summer Movie You Haven’t Seen Yet
Evan Almighty
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Hairspray
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
Rush Hour 3
Transformers
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