Superbad and Juno lead the nominations for this year’s MTV Movie Awards with five and four respectively.


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The films will compete against each other for Best Movie along with Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, I Am Legend and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Superbad star Jonah Hill is up for Best Comedic Performance, while Jonah and his co-stars Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Michael Cera all feature in the Best Newcomer category.

Cera is also nominated for Best Male Performance for his role in Juno. The movie is also up for Best Kiss for Cera and co-star Ellen Page’s smooch, while Page is named among the Best Female Performance nominees.

A new category has been introduced for this year’s awards, Best Summer Movie So Far. Iron Man will battle it out with Speed Racer, Sex and the City: The Movie, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The awards, voted for by viewers of the music TV network, will take place in California on June 1 and will be hosted by actor Mike Myers.

MTV Movie Awards 2008 Full nomination list:

Best Movie:
Juno
Transformers
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
I Am Legend
Superbad
National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Best Male Performance:
Will Smith (I Am Legend)
Shia LaBeouf (Transformers)
Denzel Washington (American Gangster)
Matt Damon (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Michael Cera (Juno)

Best Female Performance:
Ellen Page (Juno)
Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End)
Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up)
Amy Adams (Enchanted)
Jessica Biel (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)

Best Villain:
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Denzel Washington (American Gangster)
Angelina Jolie (Beowulf)
Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3)
Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)

Best Comedic Performance:
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End)
Adam Sandler (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
Jonah Hill (Superbad)
Seth Rogen (Knocked Up)
Amy Adams (Enchanted)

Best Fight:
Matt Damon vs. Joey Ansah (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Tobey Maguire vs. James Franco (Spider-Man 3)
Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Bell (Jumper)
Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down)
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan vs. Sun Ming Ming (Rush Hour 3)
Alien vs. Predator (Aliens vs. Predator Requiem)

Best Kiss:
Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer (Disturbia)
Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey (Enchanted)
Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
Ellen Page and Michael Cera (Juno)
Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman (Step Up 2 The Streets)

Breakthrough Performance:
Zac Efron (Hairspray)
Seth Rogen (Knocked Up)
Jonah Hill (Superbad)
Michael Cera- (Superbad)
Chris Brown (This Christmas)
Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray)
Megan Fox (Transformers)
Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad)

Best Summer Movie So Far:
Iron Man
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Sex and the City: The Movie
Speed Racer
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian