Twilight: Eclipse and Inception lead the way for MTV Movie Award nominations

Twilight: Eclipse is set to take the MTV Movie Awards by storm, after having received eight nominations.

The third film in the saga has been nominated for best movie, while its lead actors Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have both received nods for best actor and actress categories.

Pattinson will be competing against his Twilight co-star Taylor Lautner as well as Zac Efron for Charlies St Cloud, Daniel Radcliffe for Harry Potter and Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network.

While Stewart is up against Natalie Portman for Black Swan, Emma Watson for Harry Potter and Jennifer Aniston for Just Go With It.

Inception is in the running against Twilight for best movie, with Leonardo DiCaprio’s film receiving seven nominations.

 

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 has also made an impression and received six nominations, while The Social Network has five.

Inception’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been nominated for the Biggest Badass Star award and for Best Fight, after his zero-gravity hallway fight scene.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will compete against Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for Best Kiss after locking lips in both of popular franchises that they’re famed for.

Harry Potter’s Tom Felton has been nominated take the prize for Best Villain for his role as Draco Malfoy.

The Social Network star and future Spider-Man Andrew Garfield has been nominated for Best Breakout Star and the Facebook film is also up for Best Line For A Movie for the quote: ‘If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.’

But despite just a few films stealing most of the limelight, other nominees included Russell Brand for Get Him To The Greek and Emma Stone in Easy A.

Chloe Moretz was nominated for Kick-Ass and Mickey Rourke nabbed one for Iron Man 2.

But Twilight seems to be a favourite among voters and it’s the second time in three years that the vampire film is leading the way at MTV’s Movie Awards.

The awards show will be hosted by Jason Sudeikis on June 5 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.