"Django" and "Ted" lead comedies, superheros at MTV Movie Awards

"Django Unchained" and raunchy comedy "Ted" landed seven MTV Movie Awards nominations on Tuesday, leading a slew of comedies and superhero blockbusters among the nominees at the annual film awards voted for by youth audiences.

Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, 22, landed five nominations, including Best Female Performance for her role as young widow Tiffany in quirky comedy "Silver Linings Playbook," as well as Best Kiss, Best On-Screen Duo and Best Musical Moment with her co-star Bradley Cooper.

Cooper, 38, who plays bipolar character Pat in "Silver Linings," tied with Seth MacFarlane as pot-smoking foul-mouthed bear Ted for four nominations each.

"Silver Linings" picked up six nominations, including the night's top honor for Movie of the Year.

Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western-style "Django" scored an array of nominations including Best Villain for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best On-Screen Duo for DiCaprio as plantation owner Calvin Candie and Samuel L. Jackson as his slave, Stephen.

"Family Guy" creator MacFarlane's R-rated directorial debut "Ted" also picked up a Movie of the Year nod, along with Best Female Performance for Mila Kunis and Best WTF Moment.

While the star-studded Oscars, hosted by MacFarlane last month, honored critically acclaimed films, the MTV Movie Awards is a tongue-in-cheek, youth-orientated ceremony rewarding the box office hits often overlooked by the Academy Awards.

Hosted by "Pitch Perfect" actress and comedienne Rebel Wilson, the Movie Awards will hand out golden popcorn trophies in 12 categories, ranging from performances, Best Kiss, Best Fight and Best Villain.

"The Dark Knight Rises," the final installment in Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise which grossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, landed five nods including Movie of the Year despite failing to pick up an Oscar nominations.

Superhero blockbuster "Avengers" and James Bond film "Skyfall," teenage coming-of-age film "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and musical comedy "Pitch Perfect" all scored four nods each.

For the second year in a row, the "Twilight" franchise was snubbed, as final film "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" only received one nomination for star Taylor Lautner in the irreverent Best Shirtless Performance category.

"Twilight" used to reign at the awards as lead stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson dominated the Best Kiss category, but last year "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" only picked up one award, albeit for Movie of the Year.

The MTV Movie Awards have a long-standing tradition of adding cheeky categories each year, such as Biggest Badass Star and Sexiest Performance.

This year, Batman will face stiff competition from a male stripper, a werewolf, James Bond and a stuffed teddy bear for Best Shirtless Performance, as actors Christian Bale, Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, Lautner and MacFarlane lock heads in the tightly contested category.

The Best Scared-As-S**T Performance category is another new addition this year, pitting five actors in roles that had thrilling terror-filled moments.

The category will see Lawrence from horror flick "House at the End of the Street" competing against Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty," Alexandra Daddario in "Texas Chainsaw 3D," Martin Freeman in "The Hobbit" and Suraj Sharma in "Life of Pi" for the coveted golden popcorn trophy.

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Justin Bieber BOOED At Concert The Tide is Turning

Justin Bieber's fans have drawn the line -- it's ok to walk the cold streets of London shirtless, it's ok to smoke dope, but show up 2 hours late for a concert and they'll turn on him like wild animals.Justin's concert in London Monday was slated to start at 8:30 PM ... but he didn't take the stage until 10:30 PM -- and a very young and pissed off crowd roundly booed his skinny a*s. Particularly irritating ... most of his fans have a curfew, which put them in a bad position.Bieber tried to defend his lateness by tweeting he was actually only 40 minutes late because the opening acts were always scheduled to last more than an hour.Bieber admitted there was no excuse for being late, but then blamed the media for spreading the word of his tardiness.Better watch out Biebs -- fame is a fleeting thing.

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Actor James Franco protests Australian ban of gay films!

Actor James Franco, star of Disney's new film "Oz the Great and Powerful", has launched an online appeal after censors banned a gay film from screening at Australian film festivals.

The film "I Want Your Love," by director Travis Mathews, is the story of a gay man who has sex with his best friend while partying in Los Angeles. It has been screened at the Toronto LGBT Film Festival and other overseas festivals.

But the Australian Classification Board refused to exempt the film from classification rules to allow its screening at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival in March and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival in April, citing "explicit sexual activity".

Franco, 34, who co-directed a bondage film with Mathews that was shown at this year's Sundance Film Festival in the United States, said the ban was "hypocritical" as sex was used in a sophisticated way in the film.

"This is such a disappointment to me and it just seems really silly," Franco said in YouTube video that notched up more than 17,000 views on Tuesday.

"Sex is such a big part of our lives .. it's how we create children, it's how we connect ... I don't think we'd be having this conversation if he'd made a very violent film."

Australian Classification Board officials said an application was made to exempt the film from classification under rules specific to film festivals but it ruled against this due to the content of the film.

"In this case, the film contains detailed and prolonged scenes of actual explicit sexual activity," board officials said in a statement.

Lisa Daniel, festival director of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, said the move was embarrassing for Australia.

"It just makes us look like a cultural backwater, I think. It's pretty embarrassing given the film has screened all over the world and never been banned before," she said.

Franco backed Mathew's petition to the Australian Classification Board to review its decision and allow the film. He collaborated with Mathews on the bondage film "Interior. Leather Bar".

"Frankly adults should be able to choose," said Franco, who plays the Wizard of Oz in the new blockbuster Disney movie.

"They're not going in blind. I don't know why in this day in age something like this, a film that's using sex not for titillation but to talk about being human, is being banned," she said.

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AAUA PRE-DEGREE ADMISSION LIST OUT, 2012/2013!!! CHECK NOW!!

This publication is to inform all prospective candidates who wrote the 2013 Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba (AAUA) Predegree Entranceexam that the admission status has been released.

Students who took the exam and have seen theirresults can now proceed to check their admission status using the steps below;

1. Visit the University official predegree websiteby here @ predegree2013@aaua.edu.ng

2. On the page that show up, using your card details, enter your exam no, the card number and pin then click �Login�. Your admission status will be revealed to you.

3. All complains about the AAUA predegree programme should be forwarded to predegree2013@aaua.edu.ng

We congratulate all admitted students of the Adekunle Ajasin University.

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