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2015 MTV Movie Award Nominations

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The nominees were announced last Wednesday for the 2015 MTV Movie Awards. I commonly refer to these awards as the “unofficial” official end of the awards season IMO. First inducted in 1992, the MTV Movie Awards are geared toward a younger audience and nominate more mainstream films. Now for the Rundown: The list of best movies has been increased from the usual five this year to eight, just like the Oscars. Speaking of the Oscars, out of the eight pictures that were nominated for the Oscars four of them have been nominated for Best Movie for the MTV Movie Awards (In alphabetical order): “American Sniper”, “Boyhood”, “Selma”, and “Whiplash” The films with the most nominations were tied at seven apiece - “Guardians of the Galaxy”, “The Fault in our Stars”, and “Neighbors” The MTV Movie Awards are sometimes seen as recognizing those that SHOULD have been nominated for Oscars: Miles Teller got a nomination for Best Male Performance among others for “Whiplash” (and IMO, sh