It’s not easy to win an Oscar or an MTV Movie Award, but it’s even harder to get one of them—a film that wins both must be critically acclaimed and also, well, fun.
The MTV Movie Awards debuted in 1992 at a ceremony hosted by Dennis Miller. That year the big winner was Terminator 2: Judgment Daywhich won six of the seven categories in which it was nominated, including Best Film, Best Male Performance. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Best Female Performance for Linda Hamilton. The only trophy he lost was the best song from the movie, which went to Bryan Adams’ “(Everything I do) I do it for you” from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
In the years since that first screening, the ceremony has become known for outrageous parodies of blockbusters and Oscar winners, as well as unique nominations such as Best Kiss, Best Fight and Best Villain.
The ceremony also expanded in 2017 to celebrate TV shows as well as films and was renamed the MTV Movie & TV Awards. In 2021, the show will include a second reality show awards night called MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted.
While it might seem like a show that gives away Golden Popcorn trophies won’t have much in common with the most prestigious awards event of all, there are actually plenty of films that have been honored at both ceremonies.
Even in that first year, two shows gave awards to the same films. In addition to six MTV Movie Awards, terminator 2 won four Oscars – Best Makeup, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects. Against, Silence of the Lambsselected by the Academy for Best Picture, did not win a single bucket of Golden Popcorn.
MTV has dropped some of the weirder show categories — for example, one of them, “Best Movie Sandwich,” which was only awarded in 1996 — but even some of the weirder prizes have been given to films that also won Hollywood’s most coveted gold.
Pulp Fictionfor example, won Best Original Screenplay at the 1995 Academy Awards and later won Best Dance Sequence for John Travolta And Uma Thurman iconic twist at Jack Rabbit Slim’s restaurant. (Last time this award went to Seann William Scott in 2004 for American Wedding.)
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