‘The Hunger Games’ won four MTV Movie Awards but a ‘Twilight’ film picked up the best movie honour for the fourth straight year in what proved to be a tame evening at the typically outrageous awards show. Post-apocalyptic film ‘The Hunger Games’ nabbed MTV’s golden popcorn trophies for best male performance by Josh Hutcherson, best female performance by Jennifer Lawrence, best transformation by Elizabeth Banks and best fight. The movie of the year award, voted for by fans online throughout the show, went to vampire romance ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1’, beating out ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2’. ‘Bridesmaids’ picked up two awards for best comedic performance by Melissa McCarthy and best gut-wrenching performance for its stomach-turning food poisoning scene, while the final instalment of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise won for best cast and best hero. Host Russell Brand, known for raunchy humour, launched into jokes about his short-lived marriage to singer Katy Perry. His barbs also were directed at Justin Bieber, Charlie Sheen, John Travolta, Kanye West and Michael Fassbender for “profiting from sex addiction.” ‘Spiderman’ actress Emma Stone was given the trailblazer trophy and Johnny Depp was honoured with the generation award for a career spanning three decades. The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor showed off his guitar skills, joining rockers The Black Keys for their hit singles. Notable moments came from ‘Batman’ star Christian Bale, who gave an emotional introduction to an exclusive trailer for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, after footage of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker character was shown from the second instalment of the Christopher Nolan ‘Batman’ franchise.
