Who could have foreseen that a golden slippery Angelina
Jolie and a dead-pale murderous Johnny Depp would compete for Best Villain at the
MTV Movie Awards one year?
Well, the time has come. The nominees for the 17th Annual
MTV Movie Awards have been announced and two of
Jolie’s golden portrayal of Grendel’s mother in “Beowulf”
has been nominated alongside Depp’s take on demonic barber Sweeney Todd in the
musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
Other baddies competing: Topher Grace, for his role as Venom
in “Spider-Man 3”; Javier Bardem for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an
assassin “No Country for Old Men”; and Denzel Washington for his take on drug
lord Frank Lucas in “American Gangster.”
Having started off with the Best Villain category, we now
fittingly proceed to list the nominees in the Best Kiss category. They are: Ellen
Page and Michael Cera for their gentle smooching in “Juno”; Amy Adams and Patrick
Dempsey for their fairy-tale lip locking in “Enchanted”; LaBeouf and Sarah
Roemer in “Disturbia”; Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman in “Step Up 2: The
Streets”; and the magical kiss between Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung in “Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”
Teen comedy “Superbad” leads with most nominations, for Best
Movie; Best Comedic Performance (Jonah Hill); and three bids in the Best
Newcomer category, for its starring actors, Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and
Michael Cera.
“Juno” came up next with four nominations, for Best Movie,
Best Female Performance for star Ellen Page, Best Male Performance for Cera and
the previously mentioned Best Kiss.
“Juno” and “Superbad” are competing in the Best Movie
category with “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” “I Am Legend,” “Transformers”
and “Pirates of the
The 17th Annual MTV Movie Awards will be broadcast live
Sunday, June 1, from the Gibson Amphitheater in
For a complete list of nominees, visit MTV’s official website.