Here Are the Nominees for the MTV Movie Awards

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The Oscars are great and all, but do they have an award for Best Scared-as-S–t Performance? What about Best Shirtless Performance? Nope, and that’s where the MTV Movie Awards come in: The annual ceremony, first started in 1992, cuts through the clutter of seemingly endless winter film awards with their offbeat categories, whose 2015 nominees were announced Wednesday morning.

Amy Schumer will host the April 12 ceremony, during which Guardians of the Galaxy, The Fault in Our Stars and Neighbors will compete to see how many of their respective seven nominations they can take home. The full nominees are:

Movie of the Year
American Sniper
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Guardians of the Galaxy
Gone Girl
The Fault in Our Stars
Boyhood
Whiplash
Selma

Best Female Performance

Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Emma Stone, Birdman
Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars
Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Scarlett Johansson, Lucy

Best Male Performance
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars
Miles Teller, Whiplash
Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher

Best Scared-as-Sh-t Performance
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Annabelle Wallis, Annabelle
Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door
Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner
Zach Gilford, The Purge: Anarchy

Breakthrough Performance
Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
David Oyelowo, Selma
Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner
Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood

Best Shirtless Performance
Zac Efron, Neighbors
Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher
Ansel Elgort, Fault in Our Stars
Kate Upton, The Other Woman

Best Duo
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, 22 Jump Street
Zac Efron and Dave Franco, Neighbors
Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars
Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, Guardians of the Galaxy
James Franco and Seth Rogen, The Interview

Best Fight
Jonah Hill and Jillian Bell, 22 Jump Street
Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dylan O’Brien and Will Poulter, The Maze Runner
Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, Neighbors
Edward Norton and Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best Kiss
Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley, Fault in Our Stars
James Franco & Seth Rogen, The Interview
Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Rose Byrne and Halston Sage, Neighbors

Best WTF Moment
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, Neighbors
Jonah Hill, 22 Jump Street
Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, Horrible Bosses 2
Miles Teller, Whiplash
Rosario Dawson and Anders Holm, Top Five

Best Villain
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Jillian Bell, 22 Jump Street
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Peter Dinklage, X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Musical Moment
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, Neighbors
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, The Skeleton Twins
Miles Teller, Whiplash

Best Comedic Performance
Channing Tatum, 22 Jump Street
Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
Rose Byrne, Neighbors
Chris Rock, Top Five
Kevin Hart, The Wedding Ringer

Best On-Screen Transformation
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Elizabeth Banks, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Zoe Saldana, Guardians of the Galaxy
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood

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