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04-26-2006, 10:37 AM
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Rewarded ... Isla Fisher and Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers
FORMER Home & Away starlet Isla Fisher has been nominated for the Breakthrough Performance award at this year's MTV Movie Awards.
She will fight it out against Andre '3000' Benjamin, who starred in Four Brothers, Jennifer Carpenter, for The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hustle & Flow's Taraji P. Henson, Nelly, for The Longest Yard, and Romany Malco, who starred in The 40-Year Old Virgin.
For the first time, MTV has grouped actors and actresses together in categories instead of separating them by gender.
The MTV awards annually give fans an irreverent look at the movies with categories such as best villain, best fight and sexiest performance.
Two comedies about men who can't deal with love - Wedding Crashers (starring Fisher) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin topped this year's list of candidates with five nominations each, including a bid for best movie.
"The 2006 nominees for the MTV Movie Awards honour wedding studs, virginal duds, and a host of kissing, brawling and spell-casting buds," MTV said on its website, inviting readers to vote for the awards, which will be broadcast in the US on June 8.
MTV tends to snub the more high-brow films that dominate the Oscars, and this year was no exception.
Neither Oscar winner Crash nor rival Brokeback Mountain made MTV's list for best movie. Instead the remaining spots were taken by Batman Begins, King Kong and Sin City.
As a result, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon was nominated for best performance for her role in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, and she will compete against co-star Joaquin Phoenix, who portrayed Cash in the film.
Others competing in that group include Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain, Rachel McAdams in thriller Red Eye, Terrence Howard for drama Hustle and Flow and Steve Carell in comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Carell also was nominated for best comedic performance, alongside Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, who play two hapless bachelors in Wedding Crashers, Adam Sandler for The Longest Yard and Tyler Perry in Madea's Family Reunion.
The gender-bending categories made for some humorous races. In the best hero category, Christian Bale of Batman Begins will compete against Kate Beckinsale for Underworld: Evolution.
Sexiest performance has Beyonce Knowles in The Pink Panther and Jessica Alba of Sin City taking on scruffy comedian Rob Schneider in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
House of Wax star and heiress Paris Hilton was nominated for best frightened performance. Brokeback Mountain co-stars Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are up for best kiss, while Angelina Jolie and her boyfriend, Brad Pitt, were nominated for best kiss and best fight in Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
The MTV Movie Awards will be broadcast in the United States on cable TV network MTV on June 8. The show will be seen in more than 170 countries and regions around the world.
Reuters
Rewarded ... Isla Fisher and Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers
FORMER Home & Away starlet Isla Fisher has been nominated for the Breakthrough Performance award at this year's MTV Movie Awards.
She will fight it out against Andre '3000' Benjamin, who starred in Four Brothers, Jennifer Carpenter, for The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Hustle & Flow's Taraji P. Henson, Nelly, for The Longest Yard, and Romany Malco, who starred in The 40-Year Old Virgin.
For the first time, MTV has grouped actors and actresses together in categories instead of separating them by gender.
The MTV awards annually give fans an irreverent look at the movies with categories such as best villain, best fight and sexiest performance.
Two comedies about men who can't deal with love - Wedding Crashers (starring Fisher) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin topped this year's list of candidates with five nominations each, including a bid for best movie.
"The 2006 nominees for the MTV Movie Awards honour wedding studs, virginal duds, and a host of kissing, brawling and spell-casting buds," MTV said on its website, inviting readers to vote for the awards, which will be broadcast in the US on June 8.
MTV tends to snub the more high-brow films that dominate the Oscars, and this year was no exception.
Neither Oscar winner Crash nor rival Brokeback Mountain made MTV's list for best movie. Instead the remaining spots were taken by Batman Begins, King Kong and Sin City.
As a result, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon was nominated for best performance for her role in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, and she will compete against co-star Joaquin Phoenix, who portrayed Cash in the film.
Others competing in that group include Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain, Rachel McAdams in thriller Red Eye, Terrence Howard for drama Hustle and Flow and Steve Carell in comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Carell also was nominated for best comedic performance, alongside Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, who play two hapless bachelors in Wedding Crashers, Adam Sandler for The Longest Yard and Tyler Perry in Madea's Family Reunion.
The gender-bending categories made for some humorous races. In the best hero category, Christian Bale of Batman Begins will compete against Kate Beckinsale for Underworld: Evolution.
Sexiest performance has Beyonce Knowles in The Pink Panther and Jessica Alba of Sin City taking on scruffy comedian Rob Schneider in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
House of Wax star and heiress Paris Hilton was nominated for best frightened performance. Brokeback Mountain co-stars Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger are up for best kiss, while Angelina Jolie and her boyfriend, Brad Pitt, were nominated for best kiss and best fight in Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
The MTV Movie Awards will be broadcast in the United States on cable TV network MTV on June 8. The show will be seen in more than 170 countries and regions around the world.
Reuters