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MTV Adds Five New Categories for Movie Awards

After years of giving out golden popcorn buckets for Best Kiss and Best Fight, MTV is adding to its list of colorful categories for the upcoming 21st Annual MTV Movie Awards. This year's ceremony will introduce five new categories: Best Music, Best Cast, Best Gut-Wrenching Performance, Best On-Screen...

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After years of giving out golden popcorn buckets for Best Kiss and Best Fight, MTV is adding to its list of colorful categories for the upcoming 21st Annual MTV Movie Awards.
This year's ceremony will introduce five new categories: Best Music, Best Cast, Best Gut-Wrenching Performance, Best On-Screen Transformation and Best On-Screen Dirt Bag. Nominees for these and the seven other awards will be announced on May 1. Fans will be able to vote online beginning that day until the day of the ceremony on. The show, which will broadcast from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, will also feature a performance by the band fun.

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"The Movie Awards will be a re-imagined celebration of the most popular films and performances from the past year," MTV's President, Stephen Friedman, said in a statement. "This year, we've overhauled categories and added a Breakthrough Performance award that will be chosen by some of the best directors in the world. We're also making music a more central experience to the overall show creative, and are thrilled to announce fun. — a band that has already imprinted a new anthem on a generation — as our first musical moment."
Who do you think should be nominated for this year's MTV Movie Awards? Who else would you like to see perform?
The 21st Annual MTV Movie Awards airs Sunday, June 3rd at 9/8c on MTV.