2016 MTV Movie Awards Nominations: Star Wars Leads with 11, Diversity Reigns

Just when you thought awards season was over…

Often acting as the anti-Oscars, the nominations for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards reflect some Oscar picks as well as a broader level of diversity in its choices that include Straight Outta Compton, Creed and Concussion among its nominees.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens leads the pack with 11 nominations and Deadpool, the newest Marvel blockbuster, comes in with 8 – including Movie of the Year. The traditional ‘Best Kiss’ category is here but thankfully MTV has done away with the sillier ‘Scared as Sh*t’ performance category and opted instead for some more ‘grown-up’ categories like Documentary, True Story and Virtual Performance. Women were well-represented in the Breakthrough, Hero and Comedy performances categories, making up 50% or more of the nominees there and Jennifer Lawrence grabs the only female slot in the Best Action Performance category for her final turn as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.

Oscars’ Best Actor and Best Actress winners, Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Brie Larson (Room), still have more awards to possibly grab for their films as DiCaprio is nominated for Male Performance and Best Fight and Larson is nominated for Breakthrough Performance.

Movie fans can cast their votes for their favorites at MovieAwards.MTV.com, through Sunday, March 20th. Fans will also be allowed to vote for the coveted “Movie of the Year” directly on Google — just Google “MTV Vote” and make your pick.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart, both 2016 Movie Awards nominees themselves, will host this year’s ceremony, which air on April 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The show, which marks its 25th anniversary, will be held outdoors at the famed Warner Bros. Studios.

Here is the full list of nominees for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards:

MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Creed
Deadpool
Jurassic World
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton

TRUE STORY
Concussion
Joy
Steve Jobs
Straight Outta Compton
The Big Short
The Revenant

DOCUMENTARY
Amy
Cartel Land
He Named Me Malala
The Hunting Ground
The Wolfpack
What Happened, Miss Simone?

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect 2
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Morena Baccarin, Deadpool

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Chris Pratt, Jurassic World
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Matt Damon, The Martian
Michael B. Jordan, Creed
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
Will Smith, Concussion

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
Brie Larson, Room
Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey
John Boyega, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
O’Shea Jackson Jr.: Straight Outta Compton

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
Kevin Hart, Ride Along 2
Melissa McCarthy, Spy
Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect 2
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
Will Ferrell, Get Hard

BEST ACTION PERFORMANCE
Chris Pratt, Jurassic World
Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2
John Boyega, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
Vin Diesel, Furious 7

BEST HERO
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Chris Evans, Avengers: Age of Ultron
Daisy Ridley, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas
Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2
Paul Rudd, Ant-Man

BEST VILLAIN
Adam Driver, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ed Skrein, Deadpool
Hugh Keays-Byrne, Mad Max: Fury Road
James Spader, Avengers: Age of Ultron
Samuel L. Jackson, Kingsman: The Secret Service
Tom Hardy, The Revenant

BEST VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE
Amy Poehler, Inside Out
Andy Serkis, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Jack Black, Kung Fu Panda 3
Lupita Nyong’o, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Seth MacFarlane, Ted 2

ENSEMBLE CAST
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Furious 7
Pitch Perfect 2
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2
Trainwreck

BEST KISS
Amy Schumer & Bill Hader, Trainwreck
Dakota Johnson & Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey
Leslie Mann & Chris Hemsworth, Vacation
Margot Robbie & Will Smith, Focus
Morena Baccarin & Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
Rebel Wilson & Adam DeVine, Pitch Perfect 2

BEST FIGHT
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) vs. Ajax (Ed Skrein), Deadpool
Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) vs. The Bear, The Revenant
Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) vs. Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), Mad Max: Fury Road
Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) vs. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Avengers: Age of Ultron
Rey (Daisy Ridley) vs. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) vs. Lia (Nargis Fakhri), Spy