MTV Awards: Twilight Boycott + Will Ferrell & Aubrey Plaza

Logan Lerman on the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards.

Twilight fans boycott MTV Awards ceremony after Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart ‘Best Kiss’ snub

Say what you will about Twilight fans, but they can’t be accused of not taking their idols seriously. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were left out of the Best Kiss category at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. That’s quite inexplicable – unless, of course, the MTV insiders who select the nominees felt that the MTV Movie Awards had been turned into the Twilight Movie Awards, and thus felt they needed to expand the show’s viewership now that Twilight is a movie franchise of the past. Or perhaps the strong possibility that Stewart and Pattinson would not attend the ceremony this year – following “the scandal” last summer – was another factor. Either way, that’s the first time a Stewart-Pattinson liplock has gone unrecognized in the last five years. (Scroll down for more MTV Movie Awards 2013 pictures.)

[Update: As clearly stated in the above paragraph, those are possibilities. What is obvious is that the MTV Movie Awards’ powers-that-be will nominate those who have a chance of showing up at the awards ceremony – and thus help with the awards show’s TV ratings. Whether or not because of The Unmentionable (the scandal), they knew it’d be a waste of time to nominate Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, particularly in the Best Kiss category, when in all likelihood a) they would win the popular vote b) neither Stewart nor Pattinson would show up / act as television-ratings-boosters, especially considering that they don’t have any summer / fall movies to plug (unlike the overwhelming majority of MTV Movie Awards presenters and/or award recipients, who are there to sell their next gig). Did anyone notice that the Best Female Performance Award was not announced during the show – ah, surely just a coincidence that winner Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t in attendance? Here’s more on the 2013 MTV Movie Award winners and on the Twilight boycott.]

As a result of the vampire-on-vampire-kiss snub (remember, Bella is now a vampire, too), the site Twilight Poison has urged Twi-fans to boycott this year’s MTV Movie Awards and watch The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 instead: “Let’s all pop our Breaking Dawn – Part 2 DVDs at exactly the same time when the show starts … We’ll comment the movie … using the hashtag: #BreakingDawnPart2Night.” (See also: “Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Breaks Brazil Box-Office Record.”)

Nearly half an hour into the proceedings, #BreakingDawnPart2Night is a top trending Twitter topic in the United States. In fact, at this very moment it’s ahead of both #mtvmovieawards and #rebelwilson.

MTV Movie Awards

Now, as for the MTV Movie Awards 2013, hostess Rebel Wilson talked about her “Iron Mangina,” Channing Tatum’s butt, and, however unwittingly, paid homage to serial superstar Pearl White. How so? Well, Wilson told viewers that the MTV Movie Awards are celebrating their centenary, and “recalled” that back in 1913 one of the MTV Movie Award categories was Best Women Tied to Train Tracks. So, there you have it. (The fact that Pearl White’s The Perils of Pauline came out in 1914 is a minor technicality.)

MTV Movie Awards 2013 winners

Ah, as for the 2013 MTV Movie Awards winners, well, Bradley Cooper was named Best Actor (or rather, Best Male Performance deliverer) for David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook. The Best Subtitled Arthouse Movie was … Oh, wait. Wrong awards ceremony.

Back to the 2013 MTV Movie Awards: Following a clip from Star Trek: Into Darkness, Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, and Zachary Quinto presented the Best Fight Award. The winner was The Avengers. Accepting a bag filled with popcorn were Chris Pine (conveniently onstage), Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, and director Joss Whedon.

The Best WTF Moment Award went to Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson for their, huh, line delivery (or perhaps body language) in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Jackson’s acceptance speech featured an (inevitably censored) expletive as well. Unclear if that was supposed to induce shock, laughter, vomiting, itching, or all four.

Les Misérables’ Eddie Redmayne and Jonah Hill gave the Trailblazer Award to Emma Watson, she of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (and all of the preceding Harry Potter movies as well) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

MTV Movie Awards Best Kiss

And finally (so far), Steve Carell and Amanda Seyfried, both of whom have movies coming up in the near future, presented the much-maligned 2013 MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss: The winners were Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva in Amour – oh, no, wait! The MTV Movie Awards are really not that different than the Academy Awards: the winners were Bradley Cooper and Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook. (See also: Best Actress Oscar Winner Jennifer Lawrence Answers ‘Annoying’ Questions.)

For the record, this year’s other Best Kiss nominees were: Emma Watson and Logan Lerman for The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman for Moonrise Kingdom; Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx for Django Unchained; and Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg for Ted.

Another one for the record: Steve Carell’s upcoming movies include Despicable Me 2 (voice only) and Sundance Film Festival hit The Way, Way Back. Amanda Seyfried will next be seen in Justin Zackham’s The Big Wedding, co-starring Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon, Katherine Heigl, and Ben Barnes, which opens on April 26.

Aubrey Plaza vs. Will Ferrell: MTV Movie Awards highlight.

Will Ferrell vs. Aubrey Plaza: MTV Movie Awards

Now, the highlight of the MTV Movie Awards 2013 ceremony wasn’t a speech, an expletive, or Taylor Lautner’s fat suit. Instead, that (somewhat dubious) honor goes to Safety Not Guaranteed and Parks and Recreation actress Aubrey Plaza, who tried to seize Will Ferrell’s Comedic Genius Golden Popcorn onstage. (Image: Will Ferrell and Aubrey Plaza onstage at the MTV Movie Awards 2013.)

Now, if online reports are to be believed, that Will Ferrell vs. Aubrey Plaza match was unscripted. Plaza, with the name of her upcoming film The To Do List scribbled on her chest, was reportedly inebriated – and perhaps got hungry and felt the urge to eat popcorn? Or perhaps she was inspired by William A. Wellman’s A Star Is Born, in which a drunken Fredric March accidentally slaps Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor onstage. But if so, why didn’t Plaza slap Will Ferrell? Who the hell knows?

According to MTV, following the Ferrell Popcorn to-do, Aubrey Plaza was asked to leave the theater. Too bad, they should have made her the show’s hostess. At least Plaza was one individual at the MTV Movie Awards 2013 who had no qualms about letting everybody know exactly why she attended the ceremony. (Scroll down for a video of the Will Ferrell / Aubrey Plaza popcorn-wrestling match.)

Twilight fans vs. MTV Movie Awards

Apart from Aubrey Plaza stealing the spotlight from Will Ferrell, the most interesting thing about the MTV Movie Awards 2013 were Twilight fans stealing the spotlight from the MTV Movie Awards themselves. Twifans were mad as hell because this year MTV didn’t give them a chance to vote for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart – especially in the Best Kiss category. Throughout the ceremony, the hashtag #BreakingDawnPart2Night was a Twitter trending topic, oftentimes above #mtvmovieawards. And when Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence were announced as the Best Kiss winners, #RobstenIsTheBestKiss became a top trending topic as well.

MTV Movie Awards 2013 performers and presenters

Performers at the MTV Movie Awards 2013 included show hostess Rebel Wilson, Selena Gomez, Skylar Astin, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Anna Camp, Esther Dean, Adam DeVine, Ben Platt, Brittany Snow, Macklemore, and Ryan Lewis.

Needless to say, most of them with movies to be released in the coming months or currently in theaters, MTV Movie Awards 2013 presenters included Melissa McCarthy; Grown Ups 2‘s Adam Sandler and Chris Rock; Star Trek: Into Darkness’ Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Zoe Saldana; Eddie Redmayne; Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and Stuck in Love‘s Logan Lerman, Jonah Hill; Despicable Me 2 and The Way, Way Back‘s Steve Carell; The Big Wedding‘s Amanda Seyfried; Snoop Dogg, Ke$ha; and Peter Dinklage.

Also: Fast and Furious 6‘s Jordana Brewster, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Paul Walker; At Any Price‘s Zac Efron; Danny McBride; Seth Rogen; Quvenzhané Wallis; Carrie and Kick-Ass 2‘s Chloë Grace Moretz; Temptation‘s Kim Kardashian; Kerry Washington; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire‘s Liam Hemsworth; Ashley Rickards; Scary Movie 5‘s Tyler Posey, and World War Z‘s Brad Pitt.

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MTV Movie Awards winners

The MTV Movie Awards 2013 came to a close earlier this evening at the Sony Pictures Studios in the Los Angeles area, after Brad Pitt announced the year’s Best Film: Michael Haneke’s Amour? David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis? Or even Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Ben Affleck’s Argo, or Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty? Nope. Leos Carax’s Holy Motors? Are you mad? Try The Avengers, Joss Whedon’s special-effects fest starring grown men and women dressed in Halloween costumes. If only most Halloween parties were that successful: The Avengers grossed $1.51 billion worldwide. Take that, The Master, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and This Is Not a Film!

People are always complaining that the Academy Awards are elitist, that voters are too old, too male, and too white (and, if I may add, too wealthy and too L.A. Westside-based) to represent actual moviegoers. Well, the MTV Movie Awards give you an idea of what the Oscars would look like if “the average moviegoer” selected the year’s top movies.

Instead of Satyajit Ray, Jean-Luc Godard, or Andrzej Wajda winning Honorary Awards, you’d get Will Ferrell (Comedic Genius) and Jamie Foxx (Generation Award). Instead of Best Editing or Best Cinematography or Best Foreign Language Film, you’d have Best Kiss, Best Fight, and Best WTF Moment. I don’t know, but I’d venture to say that maybe it’s not such a bad thing that Oscar voters are so “out of touch.”

MTV Movie Awards 2013 winners range from Life of Pi to Breaking Dawn – Part 2

Anyhow, besides The Avengers, the MTV Movie Awards 2013 winners were the following: Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook for Best Kiss, with Cooper alone onstage – but not making love to himself à la Kristen Stewart a year or so ago; Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained for Best WTF Moment; and Martin Freeman a.k.a. Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for Best Hero. (So much for Christian Bale’s Batman, the hero to end all heroes, in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.)

The Best Musical Moment went to Pitch Perfect; Bradley Cooper gave the Best Male Performance in Silver Linings Playbook; the Best Villain was Tom Hiddleston’s Loki from The Avengers, while the Best Fight trophy also went to The Avengers.

Emma Watson was handed the Trailblazer Award, while MTV Movie Awards 2013 hostess Rebel Wilson won the Breakthrough Performance Award for Pitch Perfect. The Best Shirtless Performance went to Taylor Lautner for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. (Curiously, the MTV Movie Awards don’t have a Best Pantless Performance category; hopefully that’ll be rectified in the near future.)

No-shows get no award announcements

Missing from the show, but announced afterwards, were the winners in the following categories: Best Female Performance for absentee Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook; Best Scared-as-Sh*t Performance for Suraj Sharma for Life of Pi; and Best On-Screen Duo for Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane for Ted. Apparently, if you’re a no-show at the ceremony, your MTV Movie Award automatically becomes a no-show as well. (That, gasp!, would indicate that the identity of the winners is known long before their names are announced to the public.)

Will Ferrell and Aubrey Plaza MTV Movie Awards 2013 screengrab: MTV.

Picture of Best Shirtless Performance winner Taylor Lautner at the MTV Movie Awards 2013: MTV.

Eddie Redmayne, Selena Gomez, Zachary Quinto and Logan Lerman photos: MTV Movie Awards.

Note: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 managed only one nomination for the 2013 MTV Movie Awards: Best Shirtless Performance for Taylor Lautner’s Jacob Black. Meanwhile, both Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook were distributed by The Weinstein Company in the U.S.

MOVIE OF THE YEAR
“Django Unchained”
“Silver Linings Playbook”
“Ted”
“The Avengers”
“The Dark Knight Rises”

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Anne Hathaway — “Les Misérables”
Mila Kunis — “Ted”
Jennifer Lawrence — “Silver Linings Playbook”
Emma Watson — “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
Rebel Wilson — “Pitch Perfect”

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Ben Affleck — “Argo”
Bradley Cooper — “Silver Linings Playbook”
Daniel Day-Lewis — “Lincoln”
Jamie Foxx — “Django Unchained”
Channing Tatum — “Magic Mike”

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BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Ezra Miller — “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
Eddie Redmayne — “Les Misérables”
Suraj Sharma — “Life of Pi”
Quvenzhané Wallis — “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Rebel Wilson — “Pitch Perfect”

BEST SCARED-AS-S**T PERFORMANCE
Jessica Chastain — “Zero Dark Thirty”
Alexandra Daddario — “Texas Chainsaw 3D”
Martin Freeman — “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Jennifer Lawrence — “House at the End of the Street”
Suraj Sharma — “Life of Pi”

BEST ON-SCREEN DUO
Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson — “Django Unchained”
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — “Silver Linings Playbook”
Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane as Ted — “Ted”
Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo — “The Avengers”
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis — “The Campaign”

BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE
Christian Bale — “The Dark Knight Rises”
Daniel Craig — “Skyfall”
Taylor Lautner — “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2″
Seth MacFarlane as Ted — “Ted”
Channing Tatum — “Magic Mike”

BEST FIGHT
Jamie Foxx vs. Candieland Henchmen — “Django Unchained”
Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace — “Skyfall”
Mark Wahlberg vs. Seth MacFarlane as Ted — “Ted”
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner vs. Tom Hiddleston — “The Avengers”
Christian Bale vs. Tom Hardy — “The Dark Knight Rises”

BEST KISS
Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx — “Django Unchained”
Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman — “Moonrise Kingdom”
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper — “Silver Linings Playbook”
Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg — “Ted”
Emma Watson and Logan Lerman — “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

BEST WTF MOMENT
Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson — “Candieland Gets Smoked” in “Django Unchained”
Denzel Washington — “Final Descent” in Flight”
Anna Camp — “Hack-Appella” in Pitch Perfect”
Javier Bardem — “Oops… There Goes His Face” in Skyfall”
Seth MacFarlane as Ted — “Ted Gets Saucy” in Ted”

BEST VILLAIN
Javier Bardem — “Skyfall”
Leonardo DiCaprio — “Django Unchained”
Marion Cotillard — “The Dark Knight Rises”
Tom Hardy — “The Dark Knight Rises”
Tom Hiddleston — “The Avengers

BEST MUSICAL MOMENT
Anne Hathaway — “Les Misérables”
Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash and Adam Rodriguez — “Magic Mike”
Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean and Hana Mae Lee — “Pitch Perfect”
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — “Silver Linings Playbook”
Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller — “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”