MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance explained

MTV Movie & TV Award for Most Frightened Performance
Awarded For:	Most Frightened Performance
Presenter:	MTV
Country:	United States
Year:	June 4, 2005
Holder:	Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus (2023)
Website:	MTV.com
Most Nominations:	Jessica Chastain (2) Dakota Fanning (2) Victoria Pedretti (2)

The following is a list for the MTV Movie & TV Award winners for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance. The award was first given out in 2005, and then in 2006. In 2010 this award was renamed from Best Frightened Performance and renamed to Most Frightened Performance in 2022.^[1] The award was not presented in 2012. In 2013, it was given back its original name, Best Scared-As-Shit Performance. As of 2016, there have been seven winners of the award with five women and two men. Actresses Dakota Fanning, Jessica Chastain and Victoria Pedretti hold the distinction of the only people to hold more than one nomination in the category, with Fanning winning the inaugural award in 2005 and Pedretti winning in 2021. The award returned in 2018 under the title Best Frightened Performance.

Winners and nominees

Year	Actor Movie	Nominated	Ref.
	Dakota Fanning – Hide and Seek	Cary Elwes – Saw Sarah Michelle Gellar – The Grudge Mýa – Cursed Jennifer Tilly – Seed of Chucky	^[2]
	Jennifer Carpenter – The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Dakota Fanning – War of the Worlds Paris Hilton – House of Wax Rachel Nichols – The Amityville Horror Derek Richardson – Hostel	^[3]
	Amanda Seyfried – Jennifer's Body	Sharlto Copley – District 9 Jesse Eisenberg – Zombieland Katie Featherston – Paranormal Activity Alison Lohman – Drag Me to Hell	^[4]
	Elliot Page – Inception	Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism Minka Kelly – The Roommate Ryan Reynolds – Buried Jessica Szohr – Piranha 3D	^[5]
	Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi	Alexandra Daddario – Texas Chainsaw 3D Jennifer Lawrence – House at the End of the Street Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty Martin Freeman –	^[6]
	Brad Pitt – World War Z	Ethan Hawke – The Purge Jessica Chastain – Mama Rose Byrne – Vera Farmiga – The Conjuring	^[7]
	Jennifer Lopez – The Boy Next Door	Annabelle Wallis – Annabelle Dylan O'Brien – The Maze Runner Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl Zach Gilford –	^[8]
	Noah Schnapp – Stranger Things	Talitha Bateman – Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place Sophia Lillis – It Cristin Milioti – Black Mirror	^[9]
	Sandra Bullock – Bird Box	Alex Wolff – Hereditary Linda Cardellini – The Curse of La Llorona Rhian Rees – Halloween Victoria Pedretti – The Haunting of Hill House	^[10]
	Victoria Pedretti – The Haunting of Bly Manor	Simona Brown – Behind Her Eyes Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man Jurnee Smollett – Lovecraft Country Vince Vaughn – Freaky	^[11]
	Jenna Ortega – Scream	Mia Goth – X Kyle Richards – Halloween Kills Millicent Simmonds – A Quiet Place Part II Sadie Sink –	^[12]
	Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus	Jesse Tyler Ferguson – Cocaine Bear Justin Long – Barbarian Rachel Sennott – Bodies Bodies Bodies Sosie Bacon – Smile

Notes and References

1. Web site: MTV Movie Awards - Winners by Category. https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094952/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/winners_by_category.jhtml. dead. April 23, 2008. MTV. May 6, 2011.
2. Web site: 2005 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094931/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2005/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 5, 2015. Note: Click on the "Winners" tab.
3. Web site: 2006 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094936/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2006/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 5, 2015. Note: Click on the "Winners" tab.
4. Web site: 2010 MTV Movie Awards . https://archive.today/20100331225625/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2010/ . dead . March 31, 2010 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 5, 2015. Note: Click on the "Winners" tab.
5. Web site: 2011 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20110323135247/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2011/ . dead . March 23, 2011 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 5, 2015. Note: Click on the "Winners" tab.
6. Web site: 2013 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20130203191500/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2013/ . dead . February 3, 2013 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 5, 2015. Note: Click on the "Winners" tab.
7. Web site: 2014 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20141214015409/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2014/ . dead . December 14, 2014 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 5, 2015. Note: Click on the "Winners" tab.
8. Web site: 2015 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20151103164349/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2015/ . dead . November 3, 2015 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 10, 2016. Note: Click on the "Winners" tab.
9. Web site: 2018 MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS NOMINATIONS: SEE THE FULL LIST. https://web.archive.org/web/20180503172600/http://www.mtv.com/news/3075855/2018-mtv-movie-tv-awards-nominations-full-list/. dead. May 3, 2018. Crystal. Bell. MTV News.
10. Web site: 2019 MTV Movie Awards & TV Awards Winners. https://web.archive.org/web/20170512015522/http://www.mtv.com/movie-and-tv-awards/winners . dead . May 12, 2017 . MTV (MTV Networks) . June 18, 2019.
11. Web site: 2021 MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS WINNERS: SEE THE FULL LIST . https://web.archive.org/web/20210517011944/http://www.mtv.com/news/3177244/movie-tv-awards-winners-list-2021/ . dead . May 17, 2021 . MTV (MTV Networks) . May 16, 2021.
12. Web site: MTV Movie and TV Awards Winners List 2022 (Updated Live). Variety. Ethan. Shanfeld. June 5, 2022. June 5, 2022.