MTV hosts annual Movie Awards
April 16, 2014
On Sunday, April 13, MTV held their annual Movie Awards. Unlike the Academy Awards, MTV is less serious and more comedic on the varieties of awards. The awards include categories such as Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Shirtless Performance and Best Villain.
During the show, viewers were gladly surprised to see Rita Ora rip off Zac Efron’s denim button-down shirt as he accepted the Best Shirtless Performance in the movie “That Awkward Moment.” Mark Wahlberg cursed through a memorable speech as he was awarded the MTV Generation Award.
The MTV Movie Awards included a Paul Walker tribute, which was delivered by his co-star Jordana Brewster. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker won the award for Best On-Screen Duo in the movie “Fast and Furious 6.”
Towards the middle of the show, Eminem and Rihanna performed the first-ever televised performance of their song “The Monster.” The fans went wild as Eminem and Rihanna slowly walked towards each other on the spiral stage.
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” movie and cast won the awards for The Movie of the Year, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Female Performance and Josh Hutcherson for Best Male Performance. Other winners included Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly vs. the Orcs in their movie ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” for Best Fight, Mila Kunis for Best Villain for her witchy character in the movie “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” Jonah Hill for Best Comedic Performance in the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Jared Leto for Best On-Screen Transformation in “Dallas Buyers Club.” The Breakthrough Performance was given to Will Poulter from the movie “We’re The Millers.” Leonardo DiCaprio won the #wtf Moment Award for his crazy performance in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Henry Cavill won Best Hero his performance in “Man of Steel.” The Best Musical Performance was given to The Backstreet Boys, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, and Craig Robinson in the movie “This is the End,” which also was awarded Best Cameo from Rihanna’s performance in the movie.