Awards Watch: ROTS Scores Three MTV Movie Award Nominations

Let's face it, the MTV Movie Awards is all about pure Hollywood crapola and celebrity suckups.  But as always, SW is my team and I want my team to win.

The bad news…MTV seemed more in the mood to celebrate sex comedies, Batman, and its slobbering love for Peter Jackson judging by its best movie nominations.  Of all the nominees, the only one I'd characterize as a pretty good movie is Batman Begins.  I haven't seen 40 Year Old Virgin but I found Wedding Crashers not nearly as funny as the hype made it out to be, King Kong needlessly too long (hey, that rhymes), and Sin City bloody awful.   And they even crammed in a nomination for sexiest performance for the hated flop Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo.  WTF?

That said, ROTS still got a respectable three nods:  best villain (Hayden…but no Ian McDiarmid, dangnabbit), best hero (Ewan), and best fight scene (Hayden-n-Ewan).  Unfortunately, I can see the MTV potheads voting for some of the other choices, like the now-annoying Brangelina in the best fight category (gag).  So we must counter People Magazine Nation and make a final stand for our beloved ROTS.  We did it for the People's Choice Awards and we can do it again:

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/ma06/#/ontv/movieawards/ma06/

Besides, fangirls, if Hayden and Ewan win for best fight scene, they just might kiss again ;).

The trophies are handed out June 3 and the show airs June 8 at 9 p.m., repeating a gazillion times thereafter.

Celebration IV in El Lay???

Rebelscum says there's a rumor afoot that an actor's agent (un-named) slipped out this info on Celebration IV:

May 24-27, 2007 at the Los Angeles Convention Center

Rebelscum emphasized this is just a rumor and not (yet) fact. My take is, it ain't so until Lucasfilm says so. BUT it fits with what I'd been hearing the past couple of months. Here's the item on Rebelscum:

http://www.rebelscum.com/story/front/Celebration_4_Rumors_98155.asp