Heath Ledger Wins MTV Movie Award, Can Finally Rest In Peace

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 1, 2009

Not pictured: Heath Ledger

If you missed the MTV Movie Awards last night, then 1) you are older than 13 and B) missed out on seeing Heath Ledger win an award for Best Villain for his appearance as The Joker in The Dark Knight. Finally, his soaring talent has been recognized.

You can blame the scheduling of the award show, but doesn’t it feel like that movie came out hundreds and hundreds of days ago?

For some reason, everyone in the film site world (it’s a small one consisting of this site and MarthaStewart.com) sees fit to bash the MTV Movie Awards every year as being ridiculously unhip and almost completely irrelevant. But that seems ridiculous considering that MTV chose Twilight as its Best Picture of the Year Ever.

You no doubt find yourself inexplicably interested in the complete list of winners which I will provide presently complete with a really appropriate title and easy-to-read List Format!

Complete list of winners:

  • Best Movie: “Twilight”
  • Best Female Performance: Kristen Stewart, “Twilight”
  • Best Male Performance: Zac Efron, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year”
  • Breakthrough Performance Female: Ashley Tisdale, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year”
  • Breakthrough Performance Male: Robert Pattinson, “Twilight”
  • Best Comedic Performance: Jim Carrey, “Yes Man”
  • Best Villain: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
  • Best Fight: Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet, “Twilight”
  • Best Kiss: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, “Twilight”
  • Best WTF Moment: Amy Poehler for Peeing in the Sink in “Baby Mama”
  • Best Song From a Movie: “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus, “Hannah Montana: The Movie”
  • Generation Award Winner: Ben Stiller

For starters, I actually feel the need to praise the awards for having the presence of mind to nominate Milk for best kiss. It’s actually pretty cool to see something as progressive as two men kissing in earnest being recognized in art for a younger generation. However, I had no idea that this year’s MTV Movie Awards was co-sponsored by The Disney Channel.

And, yes, since you were wondering, Twilight was up against Slumdog Millionaire for Best Picture and Best Poop Scene.

What do you think?


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  • 790
    LOL,,, Typical mtv bullshit.
    Twilight and High School Muscial were my 2 picks for worst film and worst other film last year....

    Mtv is run by some of the most retarded production wannabees in the business.
    I've worked with them I've delt with the dorks that have responsablity there. The place is run by fools. :-)
  • 27poker
    HIGHSCHOOL MUSIC TELEVISION
  • PHiL
    Twilight won nearly every category? Are they seri- oh wait...it's MTV. Never mind.
  • David G
    That is pure crap. wilight won best movie and performances? What a load.
  • Big Rob
    I watched it for Andy Samburg and He was funny but I was disgusted with the over the top ASS Kissing of The Twilight Craze. thats why teens are ruining Movies and Music nowadays. Todays Music Sucks and so does MTV. And could someone explain if the Bruno 69ing Eminem was supposed to be real or a skit cause if it was a skit I seriously Question our society.
  • I am very glad I watched BrBa over this.
  • It's like, OMG, Twilight!!!!! It's tha'bomb!!!!

    sigh... Maybe it's just 'cause I'm turning 38 in 2 months, but this sounds like it was more a popularity contest than a true awards show. My 11yo daughter's started watching MTV... this just makes me think I should turn on our V-chip and block it. lol
  • Richard.C
    Ok im so gald i didnt watch it this year i mean come on twilight won almost every award man this year sounded like it sucked hopefully next year it will be better.
  • Lyric
    Oh gees... people, really.... since when have the MTV Movie awards (or any MTV awards for that matter) truly been taken seriously? Slumdog was the underdog film of the year, went on to win all sorts of big awards, yadda yadda. It was a good movie. Good for them. Twilight is nowhere near Slumdog status, in quality or really anything else. If you ask any fan (except for the squealing teenie-boppers who will surely argue you to the death) I’m sure they'd honestly tell you, Twilight really kind of sucked. It was just cool to see it as a movie - and hell, it gave us Robert Pattinson.
  • Lyric
    This was a little film, by an up and coming company, who happened to hit upon a huge fan base, which is extremely rare and very lucky. I doubt anyone knew going into this how Twilight would catch on like wildfire. Twilight fans, most being of a good natured sense of humor (not counting the crazy ones) knew this was Twilight's only chance to really win anything remotely big all year. What else could we win? Oscars? The graphics were...just, no. The acting...pffffft....ha-ha, no. Nothing much would garner this film any major awards, say for those which be fan voted. And that's okay. Nothing against the people who worked on Twilight, I’m sure they worked just as hard as anybody. But this was all just in good fun and the fans knew that. With that being said, as someone who hasn't watched MTV or the Movie Awards in years, I was glad that it was actually funny and not a total waste of two hours of my life.
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