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MTV Movie Awards nominees announced

The award show that includes best villain, best action sequence and best fight has revealed its full list of nominees.

May  5 2005

'Mean Girls' and 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' lead the field at this year's MTV Movie Awards with four nominations apiece.

Neither film made it into the Best Movie category however, with 'The Incredibles', 'Kill Bill Vol. 2', 'Napoleon Dynamite', 'Ray' and 'Spider-Man 2' duking it out for that particular honour.

The Academy Award's more rebellious younger brother, MTV's ceremony includes such unusual categories as Best On-Screen Team, Best Kiss and Best Musical Performance, wherein Napoleon Dynamite's 'election dance' faces stiff competition from Ron Burgundy's rendition of 'Afternoon Delight'.

This year two new categories have been introduced as well; Best Video Game Based on a Movie and Best Frightened Performance (and we have mo idea what the latter means either).

The awards take place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on June 4, and will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon, star of the forthcoming US adaptation of 'Fever Pitch'.

Full list of nominees:

Best Movie

Kill Bill Vol. 2
Napoleon Dynamite
Spider-Man 2
Ray
The Incredibles

Best Male Performance

Jamie Foxx - Ray
Will Smith - Hitch
Brad Pitt - Troy
Matt Damon - The Bourne Supremacy
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator

Best Female Performance

Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Vol. 2
Lindsay Lohan - Mean Girls
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Rachel McAdams - The Notebook
Natalie Portman - Garden State

Breakthrough Male

Jon Heder - Napoleon Dynamite
Tim McGraw - Friday Night Lights
Zach Braff - Garden State
Freddie Highmore - Finding Neverland
Tyler Perry - Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Breakthrough Female

Rachel McAdams - Mean Girls
Ashanti - Coach Carter
Elisha Cuthbert - The Girl Next Door
Bryce Dallas Howard - The Village
Emmy Rossum - The Day After Tomorrow

Best Comedic Performance

Antonio Banderas - Shrek 2
Dustin Hoffman - Meet the Fockers
Will Ferrell - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Ben Stiller - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Will Smith - Hitch

Best Frightened Performance

Cary Elwes - Saw
Sarah Michelle Gellar - The Grudge
Jennifer Tilly - Seed of Chucky
Mya - Cursed
Dakota Fanning - Hide and Seek  

Best On-Screen Team

Mean Girls
The Incredibles
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Best Villain

Tom Cruise - Collateral
Ben Stiller - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Rachel McAdams - Mean Girls
Jim Carrey - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Alfred Molina - Spider-Man 2

Best Kiss

Rachel McAdams & Ryan Gosling - The Notebook
Natalie Portman & Zach Braff - Garden State
Gwyneth Paltrow & Jude Law - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Jennifer Garner & Natassia Malthe - Elektra
Elisha Cuthbert & Emile Hirsch - The Girl Next Door

Best Action Sequence

The plane crash - The Aviator
The car chase - The Bourne Supremacy
The destruction of Los Angeles - The Day After Tomorrow
The subway battle - Spider-Man 2   
The desert terrorist assault - Team America: World Police

Best Fight

Battle of the news teams - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Zhang Ziyi vs The Emperor's Guards - House of Flying Daggers
Daryl Hannah vs Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Vol. 2
Brad Pitt vs Eric Bana - Troy  

Best Musical Performance

13 Going On 30 - 'Thriller' dance
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - 'Afternoon Delight'
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle - 'Hold On'
Napoleon Dynamite - Election dance
 

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