MTV Movie Award for Best Fight

MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
Awarded for	Quality fight scenes
Country	United States
Presented by	MTV
First awarded	1996
Last awarded	2023
Website	www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/

The MTV Movie Award for Best Fight is an award presented to actors and characters for quality fight scenes in films at the MTV Movie Awards, a ceremony established in 1992.^[1] Honors in several categories are awarded by MTV at the annual ceremonies, and are chosen by public vote.^[2] The MTV Movie Award for Best Fight was first presented in 1996 to Adam Sandler and Bob Barker for their fight in Happy Gilmore.^[3] Uma Thurman won the award in 2004 and 2005 for her fights against Chiaki Kuriyama and Daryl Hannah in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2, respectively. In 2008 and 2009, Cam Gigandet was presented with the honor for his fights in Never Back Down and Twilight. Robert Pattinson has also won the award twice, for his appearances in The Twilight Saga films: Twilight in 2009, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in 2011. Jackie Chan has won the Best Fight honor once from four nominations. Jet Li and Chris Tucker have each received three nominations, and Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman, Hayden Christensen, and Ewan McGregor have each been nominated twice.

Winners and nominees

2004 and 2005 winner Uma Thurman

2008 and 2009 winner Cam Gigandet

2009 and 2011 winner Robert Pattinson

2002 winner Jackie Chan

Three-time nominee Jet Li

The fight between Angelina Jolie (left) and Brad Pitt in Mr. & Mrs. Smith won the 2006 award.

2012 winner Jennifer Lawrence

2019 winner Brie Larson

Year	Winner	Film	Other nominees	Ref.
1996	Adam Sandler vs. Bob Barker	Happy Gilmore	John Travolta vs. Christian Slater – Broken Arrow Pierce Brosnan vs. Famke Janssen – GoldenEye Jackie Chan vs. Bad Guys – Rumble in the Bronx	[4]
1997	Fairuza Balk vs. Robin Tunney	The Craft	Matthew Broderick vs. Jim Carrey – The Cable Guy Jim Brown vs. a Martian– Mars Attacks! Jackie Chan vs. Henchmen – Jackie Chan's First Strike Pamela Anderson Lee vs. Bad Guy – Barb Wire	[5]
1998	Will Smith vs. the Edgar Bug	Men in Black	Harrison Ford vs. Gary Oldman – Air Force One Milla Jovovich vs. Aliens – The Fifth Element Demi Moore vs. Viggo Mortensen – G.I. Jane Michelle Yeoh vs. Bad Guys – Tomorrow Never Dies	[6]
1999	Ben Stiller vs. Puffy the Dog	There's Something About Mary	Wesley Snipes vs. Vampires – Blade Antonio Banderas vs. Catherine Zeta-Jones – The Mask of Zorro Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker vs. Chinese Gang – Rush Hour	[7]
2000	Keanu Reeves vs. Laurence Fishburne	The Matrix	Mike Myers vs. Verne Troyer – Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor vs. Ray Park – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Edward Norton vs. Himself – Fight Club	[8]
2001	Ziyi Zhang vs. Entire bar	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Drew Barrymore vs. Attackers – Charlie's Angels Russell Crowe vs. Sven-Ole Thorsen and Tiger – Gladiator Jet Li vs. Attackers – Romeo Must Die	[9]
2002	Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker vs. Hong Kong gang	Rush Hour 2	Angelina Jolie vs. Robot – Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Christopher Lee vs. Ian McKellen – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Jet Li vs. Himself – The One	[10]
2003	Yoda vs. Christopher Lee	Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	Jet Li vs. Ultimate Fighters – Cradle 2 the Grave Tobey Maguire vs. Willem Dafoe- Spider-Man Johnny Knoxville vs. Butterbean – Jackass: The Movie Fann Wong vs. Palace Guards – Shanghai Knights	[11]
2004	Uma Thurman vs. Chiaki Kuriyama	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Hugh Jackman vs. Kelly Hu – X2: X-Men United Keanu Reeves vs. Hugo Weaving – The Matrix Reloaded The Rock vs. Ernie Reyes Jr. and Kontiki Rebels – The Rundown Queen Latifah vs. Missi Pyle – Bringing Down the House	[12]
2005	Uma Thurman vs. Daryl Hannah	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Battle of the News Teams – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Brad Pitt vs. Eric Bana – Troy Zhang Ziyi vs. Emperor's Guards – House of Flying Daggers	[13]
2006	Angelina Jolie vs. Brad Pitt	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Kong vs. Planes – King Kong Stephen Chow vs. The Axe Gang – Kung Fu Hustle Ewan McGregor vs. Hayden Christensen – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	[14]
2007	Gerard Butler vs. Robert Maillet	300	Sacha Baron Cohen vs. Ken Davitian – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Jack Black and Héctor Jiménez vs. Los Duendos – Nacho Libre Will Ferrell vs. Jon Heder – Blades of Glory Uma Thurman vs. Anna Faris – My Super Ex-Girlfriend	[15]
2008	Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet	Never Back Down	"Alien" vs. "Predator" – Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Bell – Jumper Matt Damon vs. Joey Ansah – The Bourne Ultimatum Tobey Maguire vs. James Franco – Spider-Man 3 Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan vs. Sun Mingming – Rush Hour 3	[16]
2009	Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet	Twilight	Anne Hathaway vs. Kate Hudson – Bride Wars Christian Bale vs. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight Ron Perlman vs. Luke Goss – Hellboy II: The Golden Army Seth Rogen and James Franco vs. Danny McBride – Pineapple Express	[17]
2010	Beyoncé Knowles vs. Ali Larter	Obsessed	Sam Worthington vs. Stephen Lang – Avatar Logan Lerman vs. Jake Abel – Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Robert Downey Jr. vs. Mark Strong – Sherlock Holmes Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber vs. Ryan Reynolds – X-Men Origins: Wolverine	[18]
2011	Robert Pattinson vs. Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	Amy Adams vs. The Sisters – The Fighter Chloë Grace Moretz vs. Mark Strong – Kick-Ass Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint vs. Arben Bajraktaraj and Rod Hunt – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. Hallway Attacker – Inception	[19]
2012	Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig	The Hunger Games	Daniel Radcliffe vs. Ralph Fiennes — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Tom Cruise vs. Michael Nyqvist — Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill vs. Kid gang — 21 Jump Street Joel Edgerton vs. Tom Hardy — Warrior	[20]
2013	Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner vs. Tom Hiddleston	The Avengers	Christian Bale vs. Tom Hardy — The Dark Knight Rises Jamie Foxx vs. Candieland Henchmen — Django Unchained Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace — Skyfall Mark Wahlberg vs. Seth MacFarlane — Ted	[21]
2014	Orlando Bloom & Evangeline Lilly vs. Orcs	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Jason Bateman vs. Melissa McCarthy – Identity Thief Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, & Sam Claflin vs. Mutant Monkeys – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Jonah Hill vs. James Franco & Seth Rogen – This Is the End Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, & Eddie Marsan vs. Android – The World's End The Cast of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner) vs. Other Newscasters	[22]
2015	Dylan O'Brien vs. Will Poulter	The Maze Runner	Chris Evans vs. Sebastian Stan – Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edward Norton vs. Michael Keaton – Birdman Jonah Hill vs. Jillian Bell – 22 Jump Street Seth Rogen vs. Zac Efron – Neighbors	[23]
2016	Ryan Reynolds vs. Ed Skrein	Deadpool	Leonardo DiCaprio vs. The Bear – The Revenant Charlize Theron vs. Tom Hardy – Mad Max: Fury Road Robert Downey Jr. vs. Mark Ruffalo – Avengers: Age of Ultron Daisy Ridley vs. Adam Driver – Star Wars: The Force Awakens Melissa McCarthy vs. Nargis Fakhri – Spy	[24]
2018	Gal Gadot vs. German Soldiers	Wonder Woman	Charlize Theron vs. Daniel Hargrave and Greg Rementer – Atomic Blonde Danai Gurira, Scarlett Johansson and Elizabeth Olsen vs. Carrie Coon – Avengers: Infinity War Chadwick Boseman vs. Winston Duke – Black Panther Chris Hemsworth vs. Mark Ruffalo – Thor: Ragnarok	[25]
2019	Brie Larson vs. Gemma Chan	Captain Marvel	Josh Brolin vs. Chris Evans – Avengers: Endgame Maisie Williams vs. White Walkers – Game of Thrones Ruth Bader Ginsburg vs. Inequality – RBG Becky Lynch vs. Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair – WrestleMania 35
2021	Elizabeth Olsen vs. Kathryn Hahn	Scripted		[26]
		WandaVision	Final Funhouse Fight - Birds of Prey Finale House Fight - Cobra Kai Starlight, Queen Maeve, Kimiko vs. Stormfront: - The Boys Final Fight vs. Steppenwolf - Zack Snyder's Justice League
	Kourtney Kardashian vs. Kim Kardashian	Unscripted
		Keeping Up With The Kardashians	Chrishell Stause vs. Christine Quinn - Selling Sunset Jackie Goldschneider vs. Teresa Giudice - The Real Housewives of New Jersey Kandy Muse vs. Tamisha Iman - RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked Law Roach vs. Dominique Jackson - Legendary
2022	Cassie vs. Maddy	Scripted		[27]
		Euphoria	Black Widow vs. Widows – Black Widow Guy vs. Dude – Free Guy Shang-Chi vs. Razor Fist – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Spider-Men vs. Multiverse Villains – Spider-Man: No Way Home
	Bosco vs. Lady Camden	Unscripted
		RuPaul's Drag Race	Candiace Dillard Bassett vs. Mia Thornton – Salad toss fight – The Real Housewives of Potomac Margaret Josephs vs. Teresa Giudice – The Real Housewives of New Jersey Danielle Olivera vs. Ciara Miller vs. Lindsay Hubbard – Summer House Christine Quinn vs. Chrishell Stause – Selling Sunset
2023	Courteney Cox vs. Ghostface	Scream VI	Brad Pitt vs. Bad Bunny – Bullet Train Jamie Campbell Bower vs. Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things Keanu Reeves vs. Everyone – John Wick 4 Escape from Narkina 5 – Andor

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