May 4, 2009

"Twilight," "Slumdog" Lead MTV Movie Awards Nominees

It might not be THE golden statue but MTV's Golden Popcorn award certainly has movie fans buzzing.

According to PEOPLE.com, nominations for the 18th annual MTV Movie Awards were announced Monday morning with "Twilight" and "Slumdog Millionaire" as the frontrunners.

"Twilight" nabbed seven nominations including including best movie, best female performance for Kristen Stewart and best breakthrough for costars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.

"Slumdog Millionaire" earned six nominations including best movie and best breakthrough performance for costars Freida Pinto and Dev Patel.

This year marks the first time fans have voted on the final nominees, and they will also vote for the winners. SNL funnyman Andy Samberg will host the show, airing live Sunday, May 31 on MTV.

Fans hit the Twitterverse to share their votes and offer congrats to their favorite stars:

  1. Tia Young-Garrett
    _tia_xo BTW! Go vote for MTV Movie Video Awards! Vote for Freida Pinto cuz shes adorable and I like to see Vanessa Hudgens fail. :) PEACE!
  2. Sandi Kraft
    Gothmack @RobPattinson_ wish you the best of luck at the MTV movie awards just saw the nominations
  3. catia
    catiacristina @mileycyrus WE ARE VOTING FOR MILEY VERY MUCH IN YOU
    NW MTV MOVIE AWARDS :)
  4. Alicia Chavez
    Conchita08 OMG!! I am torn between three actresses to vote for breakthrough performace female-mtv movie awards. dont know who to choose.
  5. Sherine Ahmed
    SherineGamal here r my votes 4 2009 MTV movie awards...best song from a movie:miley cyrus "the climb", but i kinda wanted paramore "decode"
  6. Sherine Ahmed
    SherineGamal here r my votes 2009 MTV movie awards..best WTF moment:jumping in the poop shed "slumdog millionair" kinda wanted pee in the sink baby mama
  7. Linsey Morris
    linseymorris Andy Samburg is hosting the MTV Movie Awards? Oh, I'm definitely watching, now.

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