MTV Movie Award for Movie of the Year explained

This is a following list of the MTV Movie Award winners and nominees for Best Movie. From 2012 to 2018, it was renamed to Movie of the Year. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy won in three consecutive years (2002–2004) and is the only franchise who took home “Movie of the Year” for all their films. The Twilight Saga films won in four consecutive years (2009–2012), along with Best Kiss.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Nominees	Director	Ref
1992		James Cameron	^[1]
	Backdraft	Ron Howard
	Boyz n the Hood	John Singleton
	JFK	Oliver Stone
		Kevin Reynolds
1993	A Few Good Men	Rob Reiner	^[2]
	Aladdin	John Musker and Ron Clements
	Basic Instinct	Paul Verhoeven
	The Bodyguard	Mick Jackson
	Malcolm X	Spike Lee
1994	Menace II Society	Allen and Albert Hughes	^[3]
	The Fugitive	Andrew Davis
	Jurassic Park	Steven Spielberg
	Philadelphia	Jonathan Demme
	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg
1995	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	^[4]
	The Crow	Alex Proyas
	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis
	Interview with the Vampire	Neil Jordan
	Speed	Jan de Bont
1996	Se7en	David Fincher	^[5]
	Apollo 13	Ron Howard
	Braveheart	Mel Gibson
	Clueless	Amy Heckerling
	Dangerous Minds	John N. Smith
1997	Scream	Wes Craven	^[6]
	Independence Day	Roland Emmerich
	Jerry Maguire	Cameron Crowe
	The Rock	Michael Bay
	Romeo + Juliet	Baz Luhrmann
1998	Titanic	James Cameron	^[7]
		Jay Roach
	Face/Off	John Woo
	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant
	Men in Black	Barry Sonnenfeld
1999	There's Something About Mary	The Farrelly Brothers	^[8]
	Armageddon	Michael Bay
	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
	Shakespeare in Love	John Madden
	The Truman Show	Peter Weir

2000s

Year	Nominees	Director	Ref
2000	The Matrix	The Wachowskis	^[9]
	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
	American Pie	Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
		Jay Roach
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan
2001	Gladiator	Ridley Scott	^[10]
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee
	Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh
	Hannibal	Ridley Scott
	X-Men	Bryan Singer
2002		Peter Jackson	^[11]
	Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott
	The Fast and the Furious	Rob Cohen
	Legally Blonde	Robert Luketic
	Shrek	Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson
2003		Peter Jackson	^[12]
	8 Mile	Curtis Hanson
	Barbershop	Tim Story
	The Ring	Gore Verbinski
	Spider-Man	Sam Raimi
2004		Peter Jackson	^[13]
	50 First Dates	Peter Segal
	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton
		Gore Verbinski
	X2: X-Men United	Bryan Singer
2005	Napoleon Dynamite	Jared Hess	^[14]
	The Incredibles	Brad Bird
		Quentin Tarantino
	Ray	Taylor Hackford
	Spider-Man 2	Sam Raimi
2006	Wedding Crashers	David Dobkin	^[15]
	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Judd Apatow
	Batman Begins	Christopher Nolan
	King Kong	Peter Jackson
	Sin City	Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
2007		Gore Verbinski	^[16]
	300	Zack Snyder
	Blades of Glory	Will Speck and Josh Gordon
	Borat	Larry Charles
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
2008	Transformers	Michael Bay	^[17]
	I Am Legend	Francis Lawrence
	Juno	Jason Reitman
		Jon Turteltaub
		Gore Verbinski
	Superbad	Greg Mottola
2009	Twilight	Catherine Hardwicke	^[18]
	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan
		Kenny Ortega
	Iron Man	Jon Favreau
	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle

2010s

Year	Nominees	Director	Ref
2010		Chris Weitz	^[19]
	Alice in Wonderland	Tim Burton
	Avatar	James Cameron
	The Hangover	Todd Phillips
	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	David Yates
2011		David Slade	^[20]
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	David Yates
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The Social Network	David Fincher
2012		Bill Condon	^[21]
	Bridesmaids	Paul Feig
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	David Yates
	The Help	Tate Taylor
	The Hunger Games	Gary Ross
2013	The Avengers	Joss Whedon	^[22]
	The Dark Knight Rises	Christopher Nolan
	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Ted	Seth MacFarlane
2014		Francis Lawrence	^[23]
	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	American Hustle	David O. Russell
		Peter Jackson
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Martin Scorsese
2015
	The Fault in Our Stars	Josh Boone	^[24]
	American Sniper	Clint Eastwood
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Gone Girl	David Fincher
	Guardians of the Galaxy	James Gunn
		Francis Lawrence
	Selma	Ava DuVernay
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2016
		J. J. Abrams	^[25]
		Joss Whedon
	Creed	Ryan Coogler
	Deadpool	Tim Miller
	Jurassic World	Colin Trevorrow
	Straight Outta Compton	F. Gary Gray
2017
	Beauty and the Beast	Bill Condon	^[26]
	The Edge of Seventeen	Kelly Fremon Craig
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	Logan	James Mangold
	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Gareth Edwards
2018
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler	^[27]
		Anthony and Joe Russo
	Girls Trip	Malcolm D. Lee
	It	Andy Muschietti
	Wonder Woman	Patty Jenkins
2019		Anthony and Joe Russo
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee
		Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
	To All the Boys I've Loved Before	Susan Johnson
	Us	Jordan Peele

2020s

Year	Nominees	Director	Ref
2021		Michael Fimognari	^[28]
	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Jason Woliner
	Judas and the Black Messiah	Shaka King
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Soul	Pete Docter
		Jon Watts	^[29]
	Dune	Denis Villeneuve
	Scream	Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	Destin Daniel Cretton
	The Adam Project	Shawn Levy
	The Batman	Matt Reeves
	Scream VI	Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett	^[30]
		James Cameron
		Ryan Coogler
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann
	Nope	Jordan Peele
	Smile	Parker Finn
		Joseph Kosinski

Records

Films that won Best Movie at the MTV Movie & TV Awards and Best Picture at the Academy Awards

• 1998: Titanic
• 2001: Gladiator
• 2004:

Franchise or film series that have won Best Movie more than once

• The Twilight Saga

2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

• Marvel Cinematic Universe

Avengers (2013, 2019), Black Panther (2018), Spider-Man (2022)

• The Lord of the Rings

2002, 2003, 2004

• Scream

1997, 2023

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1992 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094751/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1992/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
2. Web site: 1993 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094756/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1993/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
3. Web site: 1994 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094814/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1994/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
4. Web site: 1995 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094818/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1995/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
5. Web site: 1996 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094823/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1996/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
6. Web site: 1997 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094834/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1997/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
7. Web site: 1998 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094843/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1998/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
8. Web site: 1999 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094847/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1999/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
9. Web site: 2000 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094855/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2000/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
10. Web site: 2001 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094859/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2001/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
11. Web site: 2002 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094908/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2002/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
12. Web site: 2003 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080421195306/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2003/ . dead . April 21, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
13. Web site: 2004 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080423094925/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2004/ . dead . April 23, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
14. 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 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
15. 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 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
16. Web site: 2007 MTV Movie Awards . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100805010715/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2007/ . August 5, 2010 . Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
17. Web site: 2008 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20080415235502/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2008/ . dead . April 15, 2008 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
18. Web site: 2009 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20090415045101/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2009/ . dead . April 15, 2009 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
19. Web site: 2010 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20100325000144/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2010/ . dead . March 25, 2010 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
20. 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 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
21. Web site: 2012 MTV Movie Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20120329053105/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2012/ . dead . March 29, 2012 . MTV (MTV Networks) . March 6, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
22. 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) . April 14, 2013. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
23. 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 4, 2015. Note: Click on the 'Winners' tab.
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26. Web site: 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards Nominations List — 'This Is Us,' 'Stranger Things' . Schwartz . Ryan . . March 2, 2017 . April 6, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170407123144/http://tvline.com/2017/04/06/2017-mtv-movie-tv-awards-nominations-list-this-is-us-stranger-things/ . April 7, 2017 . live .
27. Web site: MTV Movie & TV Awards: 'Black Panther,' 'Stranger Things' Top Nominations . Nordyke . Kimberly . . May 3, 2018 . May 3, 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180503235147/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/mtv-movie-tv-awards-2018-nominations-complete-list-1108100 . May 3, 2018 .
28. Web site: 2021-04-19. Your 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards Nominations Are Here: See The Full List. https://web.archive.org/web/20210419192549/http://www.mtv.com/news/3176571/mtv-movie-tv-awards-nominees-2021/. dead. April 19, 2021. 2021-04-22. MTV News. en.
29. Web site: MTV Movie & TV Awards: 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Leads With Seven Nominations. The Hollywood Reporter. Hilary. Lewis. May 11, 2022.
30. Web site: 'Top Gun: Maverick,' 'Stranger Things' and 'The Last of Us' Lead 2023 MTV Movie & TV Award Nominations. The Hollywood Reporter. Christy. Piña. April 5, 2023.