Stars out for MTV Movie Awards

Stars come out for the MTV Movie Awards. The big winner of the night was the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

From left, Conan O'Brien, Sam Claflin and Josh Hutcherson, the stars of the Movie of the Year The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images/AFP
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire earned the prize for Best Film at Sunday night’s 22nd annual MTV Movie Awards, besting even the top Oscar winner 12 Years a Slave.

Hunger Games stars also took home some of the night’s biggest awards. Jennifer Lawrence won Best Female Performance and Josh Hutcherson was voted Best Male Performance.

Plenty of golden popcorn-shaped prizes were handed out, but it was the summer movie teasers – and the stars attached to them – that really had Hollywood excited.

Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx, stars of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, introduced a brief clip of the film showing Spider-Man (Garfield) and the sparkling blue villain Electro (Foxx) battling in New York’s Times Square.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the star of Godzilla, opening on May 16, presented Orlando Bloom with the award for Best Fight for his and Evangeline Lilly’s tussle with the Orcs in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

There was a clip from the forthcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past and first-look footage from The Fault in Our Stars, starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, showed the beginnings of the onscreen couple’s romance.

The MTV Movie Awards have become the ideal platform for the Hollywood studios to promote their summer movies and this year was no exception.

The host Conan O’Brien kicked off the ceremony with a challenge to gain 50 celebrity cameos for his opening segment, a shtick with Will Arnett that merged two categories – Best Fight and Best Kiss – and a musical number about hating musical numbers in big awards shows.

Walking out to a track by the rapper Rick Ross, O’Brien joked that he was almost injured by the show’s flashing pyrotechnics. “Fire, explosions and rap music: all things you associate with Conan O’Brien,” he deadpanned.

Earlier in the evening, Amanda Seyfried had trouble reading the teleprompter, blaming it on not wearing her contacts. “So far this is going about as well as the Oscars,” said her co-presenter Seth MacFarlane – referencing his 2013 Academy Award hosting gig – before the pair presented Hill with his award for Best Comedic Performance for The Wolf of Wall Street.

Hill’s initial thanks went to all of his friends with whom he used to watch the show back home before making it to the ceremony himself.

In the pre-show awards, the prize for Best Cameo Performance went to Rihanna for her appearance in the comedy This Is the End. Later, Rihanna took to the stage with Eminem to perform their hit The Monster. Performing tacks from the soundtrack of Divergent, Ellie Goulding sang Beating Heart, while Zedd took the stage for Find You.

Best Kiss went to Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Will Poulter for We’re the Millers.

The MTV awards had some stiff competition from other networks on Sunday night, including the latest instalment of HBO’s popular Game of Thrones and the final season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men.

* Associated Press

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