“AFRICAN MOVIES TO BE CELEBRATED AT 2011 MTV MOVIE AWARDS

“AFRICAN MOVIES TO BE CELEBRATED AT 2011 MTV MOVIE AWARDS
“A SCREAMING MAN”, “LIFE, ABOVE ALL”, “VIVA RIVA” & “RESTLESS CITY”
JOIN “HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1”, “INCEPTION,” “THE
TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE” AND “THE SOCIAL NETWORK”
AMONG GOLDEN POPCORN NOMINATIONS
 

  With just a few days to go before the
2011 MTV Movie Awards, MTV has announced that African film making will
be recognized for the first time ever at the prestigious annual awards
ceremony.   African films will be acknowledged in the

BEST AFRICAN
MOVIE CATEGORY at the awards show that also celebrates Hollywood
blockbusters like “Inception” and “The Social Network”, “The Twilight
Saga” and “Harry Potter”.

The nominees for BEST AFRICAN MOVIE at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards are:
A Screaming Man
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Executive Producer: Florence Stern.
Foreign Producer: Diana Elbaum
Life, Above All
Director: Oliver Schmitz, Producers: Oliver Stoltz, Greig Buckle
Viva Riva!
Director: Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Producers: Bors van Gils, Michael
Goldberg, Djo Tunda Wa Munga.  Co-producer: Steven Markovitz
Restless City
Director: Andrew Dosunmu, Producers: Katie Mustard, Matt Parker;
Executive Producers: David Raymond and Tony Okungbowa

Actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis will host the 20th annual “2011 MTV
Movie Awards”, taking place at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal
City, California on Sunday 5 June. South Africans can watch the show
live on MTV (DStv Channel 321) on Monday 6 June at 02:00 CAT starting
with Red Carpet action and followed by the main show at 03:00 CAT.
Later the same evening, at 21:00 CAT, movie fans from across Africa
will be able to tune into the premiere on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322).

The “2011 MTV Movie Awards” is the only awards show where “Black Swan”
Academy Award® winner Natalie Portman and “Jackass 3D” star Steve-O
will compete against each other, James Franco, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Ellen Page and Justin Bieber to see who takes home the popcorn for
BEST JAW-DROPPING MOMENT. Meanwhile, newcomer Jesse Eisenberg will try
to tackle Movie Award veterans Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner,
Daniel Radcliffe and Zac Efron for BEST MALE PERFORMANCE.

In the brand-new category BEST LINE FROM A MOVIE, “The Social Network”
takes on “Inception,” “Grown Ups” and “Easy A” not once, but twice on
the heels of the flick’s two nods for this year’s most memorable
dialogue. And while Zack Galifianakis walked away with a golden
popcorn statue last year in BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE, lone female
nominee Emma Stone’s hilarious performance in “Easy A” will attempt to
tickle the funny bones of voters over infamous comedic actors Adam
Sandler, Ashton Kutcher, Russell Brand and Zach Galifianakis.

Leading the cinematic fray as this year’s top-nominated films are “The
Twilight Saga: Eclipse”, the hit action thriller “Inception”, the
magical phenomenon “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1”, and
critically-acclaimed “The Social Network”. These four BEST MOVIE
nominees will not only face-off against each other – but go up against
the dark psycho-drama “Black Swan”.

Further nominees for the “2011 MTV Movie Awards” are:

BEST MOVIE (voting stays live throughout the 2011 Movie Awards ceremony)
Black Swan
Director: Darren Aronofsky, Producers: Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and
Scott Franklin (Fox Searchlight)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Director: David Yates, Producers:  David Heyman and David Barron
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Inception
Director: Christopher Nolan, Producers: Emma Thomas and Christopher
Nolan (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Social Network
Director: David Fincher, Producers: Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti,
Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin (Sony Pictures)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Director: David Slade, Producers: Wyck Godfrey and Karen Rosenfelt
(Summit Entertainment)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner
Bros. Pictures)
Jennifer Aniston – Just Go With It (Sony Pictures)
Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Natalie Portman – Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Zac Efron – Charlie St. Cloud (Universal Pictures)

BEST BREAKOUT STAR
Andrew Garfield  – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit  (Paramount Pictures)
Jay Chou – The Green Hornet (Sony Pictures)
Olivia Wilde – TRON: Legacy (Walt Disney Pictures)
Xavier Samuel – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Adam Sandler – Just Go With It (Sony Pictures)
Ashton Kutcher – No Strings Attached (Paramount Pictures)
Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
Russell Brand – Get Him to the Greek (Universal Pictures)
Zach Galifianakis – Due Date (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST LINE FROM A MOVIE (New Category)
Alexys Nycole Sanchez – Grown Ups (Sony Pictures)
“I want to get chocolate wasted.”

Amanda Bynes and Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
Amanda Bynes: “There is a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.”
Emma Stone: “Tom Cruise?”

Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
“If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.”

Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Justin Timberlake: “…a million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool?”
Andrew Garfield: “A billion dollars. And that shut everybody up.”

Tom Hardy – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.”

BEST VILLAIN
Christoph Waltz – The Green Hornet (Sony Pictures)
Leighton Meester – The Roommate (Screen Gems)
Mickey Rourke – Iron Man 2 (Paramount Pictures)
Ned Beatty – Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Tom Felton – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner
Bros. Pictures)

BEST FIGHT
Amy Adams vs. The Sisters – The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
Chloë Grace Moretz vs. Mark Strong – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint vs. Death Eaters  –
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. Hallyway Attacker – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Robert Pattinson vs. Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel – The
Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)

BEST KISS
Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
(Summit Entertainment)
Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
(Summit Entertainment)
Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis – Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)

BEST JAW-DROPPING MOMENT
James Franco – 127 Hours, Cuts Off His Arm (Fox Searchlight)
Justin Bieber – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Performance
Spectacular (Paramount Pictures)
Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page – Inception, Paris Café Scene (Warner
Bros. Pictures)
Natalie Portman – Black Swan, Mutilation: Pulls The Skin Off Her
Finger (Fox Searchlight)
Steve-O – Jackass 3D, Port-A-Potty Bungee Stunt (Paramount Pictures)

BEST SCARED-AS-SH**T PERFORMANCE
Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism (Lionsgate)
Ellen Page – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jessica Szohr – Piranha 3D (The Weinstein Company)
Minka Kelly – The Roommate (Screen Gems)
Ryan Reynolds – Buried (Lionsgate)

BIGGEST BADASS STAR
Alex Pettyfer – I Am Number Four (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)
Jaden Smith – The Karate Kid (Sony Pictures)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Inception (Warner Bros.)
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 2 (Paramount Pictures)

Nominees for the “2011 MTV Movie Awards” have the following to say
about their nominations:

“That crazy bitch is the best thing that ever happened to me.”
-          Leighton Meester, nominated in the BEST VILLAIN category
for “The Roommate”

“Thank you to everyone at MTV. This movie is about my life and the
lives of my team. We did it hoping to inspire people and are grateful
to the response. Even haters liked it. Never Say Never!”
-          Justin Bieber, nominated in the BEST JAW-DROPPING MOMENT
category for “Never Say Never”

“Being nominated in this category for my work with poo really means
something.  I’m not sure what, but I’m very grateful.”
-          Steve-O, nominated in the BEST JAW-DROPPING MOMENT category
for “Jackass 3D”
-ENDS-


ABOUT THE 2011 MTV MOVIE AWARDS
Emmy® Award Winner Mark Burnett returns for the fifth year in a row to
executive produce the “2011 MTV Movie Awards” in Los Angeles, where
movie megastars will vie for the golden popcorn in award categories as
only MTV could create them. The “2011 MTV Movie Awards” will turn
fantasy into reality as the improbable materializes live before
viewers’ eyes. The magic and wonder of movies will go from the big
screen to the “Movie Awards” stage as the fantastical world of
whimsical landscapes and larger-than-life, reality-defying moments
that audiences love are celebrated. Sure to be a treat for the
over-active imagination, this year’s ceremony will build upon the
“Movie Awards” trademark individuality and status as Hollywood’s most
outrageous live event to provide movie fans with an experience worthy
of their favorite blockbusters from the past year.

The “2011 MTV Movie Awards” will be available to a potential viewing
audience of more than 1.2 billion people via MTV's global network of
more than 60 channels reaching nearly 600 million households around
the world and through syndication. In addition, its convergent
programming & content will reach the entire interactive community, via
MTV's more than 200 digital media properties around the world.

ABOUT MTV
MTV is the world’s premier youth entertainment brand.   With a global
reach of more than a half-billion households, MTV is the cultural home
of the millennial generation, music fans and artists, and a pioneer in
creating innovative programming for young people.  MTV reflects and
creates pop culture with its Emmy®, Grammy® and Peabody® award-winning
content built around compelling storytelling, music discovery and
activism across TV, online and mobile.  MTV’s sibling networks MTV2
and mtvU each deliver unparalleled customized content for young males,
music fans and college students, and its online hub MTV.com is the
leading destination for music, news and pop culture.  MTV is part of
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), one of the world’s
leading creators of programming and content across all media
platforms.  For more information, go to www.mtvpress.com.