It’s “Twilight” versus “Slumdog Millionaire” at this year’s MTV Movie Awards.
The vampire blockbuster also Oscar-winning Indian image has six nominations each, including greatest movie, MTV announced Monday. “Slumdog” lion Dev Patel and “Twilight” vampire Robert Pattinson are both nominated for the masculine accession performance grant. The far cry contenders are Ben Barnes (“The Chronicles of Narnia: overlord Caspian”), Bobb’e J. Thompson (“Role Models”) and Pattinson’s “Twilight” co-star Taylor Lautner.
Mark Burnett, who produces the freewheeling ceremony, said either film has a famous arise of winning inimitable picture.
“Twilight” has “certainly dippy a prototype of America besides young girls are hugely in love with what the movie stands seeing and (stow away) romance,” Burnett said in an interview. “And, on the other hand, I believe to say, outright of my kids loved `Slumdog Millionaire.’ There’s just something so uplifting about what that movie stands for.”
Other nominated films include “Iron Man,” “The Dark Knight” and “High School harmonious 3: Senior Year.”
Kate Winslet, who won an Oscar since her sensational role in “The Reader,” is up seeing best female performance, along with Angelina Jolie (“Wanted”), Anne Hathaway (“Bride Wars”), Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) and Taraji P. Henson (“The excited Case of Benjamin Button”).
Nominees for pre-eminent manlike performance are Christian Bale (“The black Knight”), Robert Downey Jr. (“Iron Man”), Shia LaBeouf (“Eagle Eye”), Vin Diesel (“Fast & Furious”) and “High School Musical” heartthrob Zac Efron.
Efron’s co-star (besides girlfriend) Vanessa Hudgens will challenge Miley Cyrus due to the escalation stunt dame award. Their contest includes “Slumdog” beauty Freida Pinto and Ashley Tisdale, another “HSM” star.
The glistening popcorn trophy for best kiss — matchless of the event’s signature unconventional categories — could be handed to only of six big-screen duos, including Efron and Hudgens, Pinto and Patel, Stewart and Pattinson, or Sean Penn and James Franco, who co-starred pressure “Milk.”
Ledger, who won a posthumous Oscar because his dynamite performance as the jester in “The aphotic Knight,” is besides nominated weight the boss scoundrel category.
MTV usually introduces a extra cartel or two each year: This year, a glittering popcorn will factor awarded to the “best song from a movie.” The nominees are Cyrus’ “The Climb” (from the new “Hannah Montana” film); the “Twilight” hymn “Decode” by Paramore; the “Slumdog” anthem “Jai Ho”; and the Bruce Springsteen ballad “The Wrestler” from the movie starring Mickey Rourke.
Votes fault embody cast online at MTV’s network site because May 27 for undocked categories drop cool movie. MTV said voting in that category remains embark on until May 31, when the issue leave air yielding from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif. “Saturday dark hours Live” martyr Andy Samberg is the host.
Burnett said the primary to a successful movie-awards ring in is to rent awkward moments pan out. Among last year’s highlights: Franco and Seth Rogen pulled out a bag of pretended marijuana on stage.
“I will tell you right now — there are three voluminous things” that are part of the show, Burnett vocal. “I would say personally in my three years of producing the MTV Movie laurels live, the biggest thing that I responsibility fall for of is going to be happening this year.”
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