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June 2, 2009, Tuesday
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THE MTV Movie Awards were a bloodbath on Sunday night with "Twilight" taking five trophies, including best movie. But it was Sacha Baron Cohen who gave the show its trademark bizarre moment when he landed upside-down on the lap of Eminem, who may or may not have been deeply offended.
"Twilight," the popular vampire drama starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, took golden popcorn trophies for best movie, best fight, best kiss, breakthrough male performance and breakthrough female performance during the freewheeling and often-bleeped ceremony at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.
"The fans are the ultimate driving force," Stewart said while accepting her best female performance trophy (which she promptly dropped on the floor, breaking off a chunk of the golden popcorn). Awards were decided by fan votes.
Other winners included "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" star Zac Efron for male performance and his co-star Ashley Tisdale for female breakthrough performance. Miley Cyrus accepted the best song from a movie prize for "The Climb" from "Hannah Montana: The Movie," preventing "Twilight" from sweeping all six nominated categories.
A new award this year, the "WTF moment," went to Amy Poehler's scene in "Baby Mama" where she urinates in a sink.
But even that was upstaged by Baron Cohen, who flew in on a wire, hanging above the audience. Dressed as flamboyant character "Bruno" in a pair of feathery white wings and his rear end mostly exposed, the comedian crashed into an overhead obstacle and was lowered head-first into the lap of Eminem, his bare hindquarters in the rapper's face.
"Is the real Slim Shady about to stand up?" chirped Baron Cohen.
Eminem seemed upset by the encounter, and members of his entourage roughly removed Baron Cohen as the rapper struggled to get out. But had the rapper been punked by Baron Cohen and MTV, or was he in on the elaborate stunt?
Free of the scene, Eminem stormed out with his entourage in tow.
Baron Cohen's descent to the audience was included in rehearsals, but Eminem - who performed on Sunday night - didn't take part in that piece of the run-through. As the rapper stormed off, it sounded as though he was wearing a microphone, and cameras were in position to record his fast exit.
Before this year's broadcast, Heath Ledger was awarded the best villain trophy for his twisted turn as the Joker in "The Dark Knight." Jim Carrey later won for best comedic performance for "Yes Man." Ben Stiller received the MTV Generation Award, the show's highest honor.
In addition to the awards, MTV debuted new footage from the upcoming films "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" and "New Moon."
"Twilight," the popular vampire drama starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, took golden popcorn trophies for best movie, best fight, best kiss, breakthrough male performance and breakthrough female performance during the freewheeling and often-bleeped ceremony at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.
"The fans are the ultimate driving force," Stewart said while accepting her best female performance trophy (which she promptly dropped on the floor, breaking off a chunk of the golden popcorn). Awards were decided by fan votes.
Other winners included "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" star Zac Efron for male performance and his co-star Ashley Tisdale for female breakthrough performance. Miley Cyrus accepted the best song from a movie prize for "The Climb" from "Hannah Montana: The Movie," preventing "Twilight" from sweeping all six nominated categories.
A new award this year, the "WTF moment," went to Amy Poehler's scene in "Baby Mama" where she urinates in a sink.
But even that was upstaged by Baron Cohen, who flew in on a wire, hanging above the audience. Dressed as flamboyant character "Bruno" in a pair of feathery white wings and his rear end mostly exposed, the comedian crashed into an overhead obstacle and was lowered head-first into the lap of Eminem, his bare hindquarters in the rapper's face.
"Is the real Slim Shady about to stand up?" chirped Baron Cohen.
Eminem seemed upset by the encounter, and members of his entourage roughly removed Baron Cohen as the rapper struggled to get out. But had the rapper been punked by Baron Cohen and MTV, or was he in on the elaborate stunt?
Free of the scene, Eminem stormed out with his entourage in tow.
Baron Cohen's descent to the audience was included in rehearsals, but Eminem - who performed on Sunday night - didn't take part in that piece of the run-through. As the rapper stormed off, it sounded as though he was wearing a microphone, and cameras were in position to record his fast exit.
Before this year's broadcast, Heath Ledger was awarded the best villain trophy for his twisted turn as the Joker in "The Dark Knight." Jim Carrey later won for best comedic performance for "Yes Man." Ben Stiller received the MTV Generation Award, the show's highest honor.
In addition to the awards, MTV debuted new footage from the upcoming films "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" and "New Moon."
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