The MTV Movie Awards were held last night. I didn't actually watch them, but I did check up on the results periodically, and as this blog is titled THOUGHTS of a High School Potterhead, I figured I'd share my thoughts on the results for categories Harry POtter was nominated in.
Best Male Performance
Winner: Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games
In this category, you could probably guess it was Daniel Radcliffe who was nominated for his role as Harry Potter. I was slightly disappointed in the results, though not surprised.
The Hunger Games seems to be the next big thing now that
Harry Potter is over. Now, don't get me wrong, I love
The Hunger Games. They're one of my favorite book series next to
Harry Potter, and I attended a midnight premiere of the movie. I just hoped that maybe
Harry Potter would win since they don't have any more movies coming out, but
The Hunger Games does.
Best Female Performance
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games
Emma Watson was nominated in this category for her role as Hermione Granger. Again, though, this was to be expected. See the above paragraph for my thoughts. :)
Best Kiss
Winner: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Now, I couldn't help being upset about this one. I'm going through a huge Ron/Hermione shipping phase and really wanted Rupert Grint and Emma to get the award. Plus, look at it this way. The Ron/Hermione kiss was built up to for seven and a half movies, and we finally got the big moment in
Deathly Hallows - Part 2.
Though it was different than in the book, I still enjoy it very much. Rob and Kristen were kissing in the very first movie. How do I know this if I've never seen the
Twilight movies? They won the Best Kiss award in 2009 for the first film. They also got it for
New Moon and
Eclipse, for that matter. Why can't we share the love?
Best Cast
Winner: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Tom Felton in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2!!
This award was kind of a shock to me - a good shock, of course. After seeing the Best Kiss go to
Twilight, I was feeling pretty hopeless about anything going to
Harry Potter. Then, lo and behold, I found out the Best Cast award had been given to
Harry Potter!
Only Daniel, Emma, Rupert, and Tom are listed, though I originally took it to mean the entire cast. But whoever you're talking about, you have to admit that the Harry Potter cast is pretty awesome. I was quite ecstatic when I saw these results.
Best Hero
Winner: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter!!
Harry Potter managed to pull out another victory in the Best Hero category. This seems to be a very new category, and voting took place through Twitter. Harry took the lead and was able to keep it until the awards show. I was happy to see Harry win this. It might not be a major category, but a win is a win, so I'll take whatever Harry can get.
Best Fight
Winner: Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence as Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen vs. Alexander Ludwig as Cato in The Hunger Games
Here we had another
Hunger Games win. Daniel and Ralph Fiennes had been nominated for their fight as Harry Potter and Voldemort.
I have already shared my thoughts on
The Hunger Games, so go back to the beginning if you missed them the first two times.
The Hunger Games seemed to do very well in this awards show.
Best Movie
Winner: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Was there really any surprise here?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 was nominated, of course, but it almost seems to be certain that
Harry Potter won't win any best movie awards it gets nominated for. Not to mention the fact that every single
Twilight movie to date has won the Best Movie award. I've never seen a
Twilight film, so I suppose I can't judge, but I find it very hard to believe that it has been the best movie of the entire year for four years in a row. It's beaten not only the last three
Harry Potter films, but also some movies that I have not seen as well but that I've heard are very good.
And that's it! At least
Harry Potter didn't walk away completely empty-handed this year (and Tom Felton has won twice in past years for his role as Draco Malfoy) so I'm not as disappointed as I was expecting to be. And anyway, you could always put a positive spin on things, as Mugglenet.com's podcast Mugglecast did. They tweeted "Ultimately, Potter won all the awards. Because Wizarding World Hollywood is literally TAKING OVER the space where the MTV Awards were held."
