MTV Movie Awards: 2016’s Winners

Pitch Perfect 2 Cast
The cast of ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards (Photo by Getty Images for MTV)

The 2016 MTV Movie Awards hosted by Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart took place on April 9, 2016 at Warner Bros. studio, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens going into the awards show with the most nominations with 11. The latest Star Wars film emerged the big winner, earning awards in the Movie of the Year, Breakthrough Performance, and Best Villain categories. The R-rated comic book-inspired Deadpool also turned out to be popular with MTV voters. Ryan Reynolds took home the Best Comedic Performance award and shared the Best Fight trophy with Ed Skrein for the battle between Deadpool and Ajax.

Pitch Perfect 2 earned two MTV Movie Awards including the Best Kiss award for Rebel Wilson and Adam DeVine’s liplock. Other films earning awards at the annual MTV event were Straight Outta Compton, Mad Max: Fury Road, Jurassic World, Amy, The Revenant, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, and Inside Out.


MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

TRUE STORY
Straight Outta Compton

DOCUMENTARY
Amy

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Leonard DiCaprio – The Revenant

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Force Awakens

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool

BEST ACTION PERFORMANCE
Chris Pratt – Jurassic World

BEST HERO
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

BEST VILLAIN
Adam Driver – Star Wars: The Force Awakens

BEST VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE
Amy Poehler – Inside Out

ENSEMBLE CAST
Pitch Perfect 2

BEST KISS
Rebel Wilson & Adam DeVine – Pitch Perfect 2

BEST FIGHT
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) vs. Ajax (Ed Skrein) – Deadpool

MTV GENERATION AWARD
Will Smith

COMEDIC GENIUS AWARD
Melissa McCarthy

Complete List of MTV Movie Awards Nominees