2006 MTV Movie Awards (2006) (TV)

Director:

Joel Gallen

Writers:

Paul Greenberg
Erica Rivinoja
(more)

Release Date:

8 June 2006 (USA)

Plot:

The fifteenth annual MTV Movie Awards show. Hosted by Jessica Alba. |

Plot Keywords:

Awards Show | Spoof | TV Special | Number In Title

Cast

Jessica Alba	...	Herself - Host
Sandra Bullock	...	Herself
Keanu Reeves	...	Himself
Colin Farrell	...	Himself
Jamie Foxx	...	Himself
Christian Bale	...	Himself
Vince Vaughn	...	Himself
Samuel L. Jackson	...	Himself
Famke Janssen	...	Herself - Presenter
Rebecca Romijn	...	Herself - Presenter
Isla Fisher	...	Herself
Jessica Simpson	...	Herself
Dane Cook	...	Himself
Kate Beckinsale	...	Herself - Presenter
Adam Sandler	...	Himself
LL Cool J	...	Himself
Hayden Christensen	...	Himself
Jimmy Fallon	...	Himself
Topher Grace	...	Himself
Flavor Flav	...	Himself
Justin Timberlake	...	Himself - Presenter
T.I.	...	Himself - Presenter
Matt Dillon	...	Himself - Presenter
Kate Hudson	...	Herself - Presenter
Owen Wilson	...	Himself - Presenter
Andy Dick	...	Himself
Spike Lee	...	Himself
Will Ferrell	...	Himself / Ricky Bobby
John C. Reilly	...	Cal Naughton Jr.
Steve Carell	...	Himself
Kate Bosworth	...	Herself - Presenter
Brandon Routh	...	Himself
Kevin Spacey	...	Himself
Amanda Bynes	...	Herself
Anna Faris	...	Herself
Eva Mendes	...	Herself
Jake Gyllenhaal	...	Jake
Jim Carrey	...	Lacombe
Charles Barkley	...	Himself
AFI
Christina Aguilera	...	Herself / Performer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nikki Blonsky	...	Herself
Joshua Caldwell	...	Himself
Gary Cole	...	Himself
Zac Efron	...	Himself
Ingrid Graham	...	Herself - Model (as Ingrid Schau)
Anand Jon	...	Celebrity
Elijah Kelley	...	Himself
Ludacris	...	Himself - Presenter
John Magennis	...	Himself
Melissa McQueen	...	Flight Attendant
Stephen Reedy	...	Himself
Adam Shankman	...	Himself
John Travolta	...	Himself
Nikki Tuazon	...	Herself
Jason Wahler	...	Himself
Jana Williams	...	Herself
Josh Wood	...	Himself
Nancy Carell	...	Herself - Audience Member (uncredited)
Flood Reed	...	Carjacker (uncredited)
Seth Rogen	...	Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
Andy Samberg	...	Ron Google (uncredited)

Directed by
Joel Gallen

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Paul Greenberg
Mathew Harawitz
Joe Kelly		consulting writer
Jason Kessler
Aaron Matthew Lee
Erica Rivinoja
Jordan Rubin
Caleb Scott

Produced by
Rick Austin	....	producer
Will Coss	....	associate producer
Kathy Flynn	....	producer
Salli Frattini	....	executive producer
Joel Gallen	....	executive producer
Natalia Garcia	....	backstage producer
Hyunjoo Kim	....	line producer
Gary Lanvy	....	producer
Jane Mun	....	producer
Don Poquette	....	line producer
John M. Valerio	....	producer (nomination packages)
Allan Wells	....	screens producer

Cinematography by
Clyde W. Smith

Film Editing by
A.J. Catoline		(segment "Short Films")
Bill DeRonde
Narumi Inatsugu
John M. Valerio		(segment "Short Films")

Production Design by
Jim Dultz

Art Direction by
Tamlyn Wright

Costume Design by
Paula Elins

Makeup Department
Dugg Kirkpatrick	....	key hair stylist
Felicia Linsky	....	key makeup artist
Robert Ramos	....	hair stylist: Jessica Alba

Production Management
Kevin Bar	....	assistant production manager
Stefanie Cohen	....	production manager
Garrett English	....	executive in charge of production
Sarah Tindall	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Glenn Steelman	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Graham Dodge	....	graphic designer
Gloria Lamb	....	assistant art director
Sarah Osborne	....	art assist
Erin Paynter	....	carpenter
Erin Paynter	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Jason Atwell	....	sound
Patrick O. Bird	....	sound re-recording mixer
Brett Butler	....	sound effects editor
John W. Frost	....	sound re-recording mixer
Brian Riordan	....	additional sound re-recording mixer

Visual Effects by
Jay Odum	....	visual effects supervisor

Stunts
David Leitch	....	stunt double
Melissa R. Stubbs	....	fight choreographer
Melissa R. Stubbs	....	stunt coordinator
Ryan Watson	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Alberto Alonso	....	electrician
John Bradaric	....	grip
Ben Caldwell	....	electrician
James Childers	....	gaffer
Doug Ednie	....	electrician
Emily Geagan	....	electrician
Bob Gorelick	....	Steadicam operator
Mauricio Gutierrez	....	first assistant camera
G. Barak Humphrey	....	grip
Robert Ikeda	....	best boy grip (as Bobby Ikeda)
Chris Linares	....	electrician
Gannon Murphy	....	electrician
Alexander Poieniuch	....	electrician
Jason Popieniuck	....	best boy electric
Carlos Quintero	....	electrician
Chris Rauch	....	key grip
Lack Richardsons	....	electrician
Finnian Riley	....	vtr operator
Tony Schultz	....	second assistant camera
Matt Siess	....	grip
Robert F. Smith	....	director of photography: second unit
Jason Tomlins	....	dolly grip

Animation Department
Johnny Darrell	....	animation director

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Shanna Knecht	....	wardrobe assistant
Erin Masuda	....	dressing rooms coordinator
Elizabeth Tagg	....	wardrobe assistant
Marcia Zigler	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
James Anderson	....	assistant editor
Gus Comegys	....	on-line editor
Ben Folts	....	assistant editor
Peter Fuller	....	assistant editor
Doug Hannah	....	assistant editor
Kevin O'Dea	....	assistant editor
Greg Taieb	....	post-production coordinator
Joe Tarantini	....	post-production assistant
Sarah Zeitlin	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Emanuel Heinstein	....	composer: additional music
David Montalvo	....	music and media licensing
Larry Shure	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Michael Locke	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Ted Absher	....	talent logistics manager
Tom Agna	....	consultant
Chad J.W. Anderson	....	screens (as Chad Anderson)
Jeff Angulo	....	production accountant (as Jeffrey Angulo)
Carlos Arguello	....	production assistant
Edwin Avedissian	....	location manager
Kara Bauer	....	production coordinator
Matt Beckner	....	talent assistant
Brandon Bennett	....	production assistant
Benjamin R. Brown III	....	production assistant
A.J. Calomay	....	featurette editor
Melanie Ann Capacia	....	production coordinator
Joshua Carmer	....	script coordinator
Mary Chau	....	script assistant
Taylor Choi	....	talent assistant
Tina Cannizzaro DeBone	....	script supervisor
Charlotte Dunnam	....	assistant to executive producer
Casey Elliott	....	production assistant
Kathy Flynn	....	event producer
Paul Greenberg	....	consultant
Larissa Grudt	....	key set production assistant
Mathew Harawitz	....	consultant
Jill Heydorff	....	craft service
Jef Spenser Hira	....	finance manager
Athena Zoe Hogue	....	receptionist
Nathan Holzman	....	production assistant
Allison Hughes Stroud	....	assistant location manager (as Allison Hughes)
David Iserson	....	consultant
Tara Jones	....	production accountant
Ryan Jordan	....	production assistant
Colin Jost	....	consultant
Patty Jovel	....	limo coordinator
Joe Kelly	....	consultant
Jason Kessler	....	consultant
Stephanie Kisinger	....	assistant production coordinator
John Kocur	....	craft service
James Lacsina	....	production assistant
Eloy Lara	....	set medic
Aaron Matthew Lee	....	consultant
George Lee	....	production assistant
Kelly Love	....	talent coordinator
Sechita McNair	....	stager
Paul Michalak	....	production assistant
Judah Miller	....	consultant
Murray Miller	....	consultant
Napoleon Ochoa	....	production assistant
Robin Reinhardt	....	celebrity talent executive
Erica Rivinoja	....	consultant
Kelly Rogers	....	script supervisor
Jordan Rubin	....	consultant
Gerardo F. Santos	....	production coordinator
Phillip Sino-Cruz	....	production assistant
John Solomon	....	consultant
Cody Speer	....	coordinator
Jessica Jane Stewart	....	production coordinator
Peter Terrill	....	assistant production coordinator
Vito Viscomi	....	consultant
Vito Viscomi	....	creative consultant
Jennifer Watco	....	office production assistant
Courtney Wieden	....	production assistant
Matt Wise	....	production assistant
Peggy Yen	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Music Television (MTV)

Distributors

• Music Television (MTV) (2006) (USA) (TV)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  dollies
• ShowBiz Enterprises  draperies

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Music Television (MTV)

Trivia:

The first time that the categories of Best Hero and Best Performance take place.

Movie Connections:

Features Wedding Crashers (2005)

Roundly poor awards show with mostly bland winners and humour that has little respect for the audience

Apart from seeing the brilliant Matrix skit a few years back, I have not seen much of the MTV Movie Awards and decided to give it a try in 2006. After a silly spoof of MI3 that ran out of steam seconds into it, we are treated to a rather cool "Incredibles" style opening credits sequence that I quite enjoyed. After this however things took a turn for the worse and never recovered. Alba comes out and shows as much charisma and natural character as a block of wood and her opening montage was as stiff as it was unfunny. This is followed by Christian Bale giving an embarrassing speech for "Best Hero" – he went on and on as if he had won an Oscar; he is a better actor than this and it demeaned himself to blow it out of proportion.

From here on in we have lots of bad taste humour – the lowest point of which is the horrid "ranch hand job" routine that personally had me cringing in my seat. This continues throughout the ceremony but bits of it are better and funnier. The couple of musical numbers did nothing for me but have me reaching for the fast forward button, which at least made the whole show shorter if nothing else. The awards are mostly pretty bland and have the usual stupid categories of best fight, best kiss and so on. I suppose these categories at least make the awards stand out as unique and fun, but it still doesn't excuse that the choices are normally safe and dull – Hustle & Flow being the most overlooked film of the night (surprising since it was a MTV production). That said though, I suppose it does suit the average age of the audience but I had to restrain my laughter at the idea of Sin City, 40-Year-Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers being the big pushers for "Best Movie".

The award to Jim Carrey is at least amusing and I appreciated the award to Spike Lee for Do The Right Thing; it brings to audience's attention but I wish that the teenagers had more time for his more recent work – credit to him as well for noting that the issues he raised in the 80's are still just as relevant and evident today. Alba is a sexy host but she either overacts or is wooden; for MTV viewers I suppose it is sufficient that she has a good body. Speaking of which I was surprised by how much sexist humour there was in the presentations – women are presented as sexual objects and many jokes back that up. More uncomfortable was the homophobic humour – they can pat themselves on the back for awarding Brokeback but this doesn't excuse the jokes and so on at its expense.

Overall this is a pretty weak awards ceremony that didn't work for me and even managed to be basic to the point where I suspect the target audience found it rather irritating. Bland hosts, crude and tasteless humour, sexy people, bland awards and average musical numbers. Credit to it for doing some things right and at least trying to be fun, but mainly this fell way short of the mark.