MTV has announced the first line up of presenters for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, which includes Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg. The awards will take place on Sunday 3 June at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California and will be broadcast on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) on Monday 4 June at 9pm CAT.
The awards will feature a broad array of movies that resonated with the MTV audience this year, and the nominations include both blockbusters and critically acclaimed films such as Drive, Like Crazy, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and My Week with Marilyn.
This year’s telecast will also be a theatrical throwdown as two queens of comedy, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, face off against action star Jennifer Lawrence, as they celebrate four nominations each. Emma Stone, Emma Watson and Rooney Mara are close on their heels with three nods each and are set to battle in categories like Best Female Performance. Additionally, there is a clash of the male titans brewing with Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Josh Hutcherson receiving four nominations and going head-to-head in categories like Best Male Performance, Best Kiss and Best Fight.
As always, MTV fans hold the Power of the Popcorn awards in their hands with voting available online via www.mtvbase.com up until Saturday 2 June 2012. Voting for Movie of the Year will remain open throughout the live event on Sunday 3 June.
On the red carpet, British TV host and fashion expert Louise Roe will return as MTV’s international guest correspondent for the second year in a row. Roe will be chatting up all the A-list celebrities on the red carpet as part of a special edition of MTV At The Movies, bringing audiences even closer to Hollywood’s hottest stars as part of MTV’s global coverage of the 2012 MTV Movie Awards.
Chart-topping indie-pop group fun. is the first musical performance announced for the awards show.
Known as one of the most outrageous and distinctive televised award shows, the 2012 MTV Movie Awards will feature its trademark individuality and irreverence. Fusing the network’s musical core with the wonder and amazement of the comedy, drama, adventure and mystery inherent to the movie-going experience, the telecast is set to provide more laughs, surprises and one-of-a-kind moments with Hollywood’s biggest stars gathering to honour fan-favourites from the past year.
The 2012 MTV Movie Awards will air across MTV’s global network of more than 60 channels reaching more than 600 million households around the world as well as through syndication. In addition, its convergent programming and content will reach the entire interactive community, via MTV’s more than 200 digital media properties around the world.
