Django Unchained & Ted lead comedies, superheroes at MTV Movie Awards
| Piya Sinha-Roy |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Django Unchained” and raunchy comedy “Ted” landed seven MTV Movie Awards nominations on Tuesday, leading a slew of comedies and superhero blockbusters among the nominees at the annual film awards voted for by youth audiences.
Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, 22, landed five nominations, including Best Female Performance for her role as young widow Tiffany in quirky comedy “Silver Linings Playbook”, as well as Best Kiss, Best On-Screen Duo and Best Musical Moment with her co-star Bradley Cooper.
This undated publicity file image released by The Weinstein Company shows Christoph Waltz (L) and Jamie Foxx in the film ‘Django Unchained’ directed by Quentin Tarantino. MTV announced that ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘Ted’ each have seven bids at the annual MTV Movie Awards set to air live on April 14 from the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California. AP
Cooper, 38, who plays bipolar character Pat in “Silver Linings”, tied with Seth MacFarlane as pot-smoking foul-mouthed bear Ted for four nominations each.
“Silver Linings” picked up six nominations, including the night’s top honour for Movie of the Year.
Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western-style “Django” scored an array of nominations including Best Villain for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best On-Screen Duo for DiCaprio as plantation owner Calvin Candie and Samuel L Jackson as his slave, Stephen.
Actor Mark Wahlberg (L) and the title character in ‘Ted’
“Family Guy” creator MacFarlane’s R-rated directorial debut “Ted” also picked up a Movie of the Year nod, along with Best Female Performance for Mila Kunis and Best WTF Moment.
While the star-studded Oscars, hosted by MacFarlane last month, honoured critically acclaimed films, the MTV Movie Awards is a tongue-in-cheek, youth-orientated ceremony rewarding the box office hits often overlooked by the Academy Awards.
