Hunger Games scoops MTV Movie Awards

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been named movie of the year at the MTV Movie Awards with the film's cast also claiming major awards.

Josh Hutcherson poses with his awards at the MTV Movie Awards

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has won movie of the year at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles. (AAP)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has won movie of the year at the MTV Movie Awards, beating Oscar winner 12 Years a Slave.

Hunger Games stars also took home some of the night's biggest awards. Jennifer Lawrence won best female performance and Josh Hutcherson was voted best male performer.

Zany categories were also in abundance. Zac Efron earned best shirtless performance, while properly accepting his award, well, shirtless.

Plenty of golden popcorn-shaped prizes were handed out at Sunday's awards, but it was the movie teasers - and the stars attached to them - that really had Hollywood excited.

Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Jamie Foxx, stars of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, introduced a brief clip of the film showing Spider-Man (Garfield) and the sparkling blue villain Electro (Foxx) battling in New York's Times Square.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson presented Orlando Bloom with the award for best fight for his and Evangeline Lilly's tussle with the Orcs in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Ellen Page, one of the stars of the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, introduced a clip from the film that sees the X-Men joining forces with their younger selves.

Receiving this year's trailblazer award was Channing Tatum. The first male to gain the honour, Tatum accepted the award from his Jupiter Ascending co-star Kunis and his 22 Jump Street co-star Jonah Hill.

Jordana Brewster introduced the special tribute to Paul Walker, who died in a car crash last November.

"I witnessed the generosity of his heart every day I was with him," she said. "He wanted to make a difference in this world. His charm, wit, spirit and his beautiful smile will live on."

Clips from a number of Walker's films and footage of the actor accepting the MTV movie award for breakthrough male performance in 2002 were shown.

Mark Wahlberg collected the generation award. "I know what this really means," he said, adding the award signifies "You're done."

Host Conan O'Brien kicked off the ceremony with a challenge to gain 50 celebrity cameos for his opening segment, a schtick with Will Arnett that merged two categories - best fight and best kiss - and a musical number about hating musical numbers at big awards shows.

Walking out to a track by rapper Rick Ross, O'Brien joked that he was almost injured by the show's flashing pyrotechnics. "Fire, explosions and rap music: all things you associate with Conan O'Brien," he deadpanned.

In the preshow awards, the prize for best cameo performance went to Rihanna for her appearance in the comedy This is the End.

Later, Rihanna took to the stage with Eminem to perform their hit The Monster. Performing tracks from the soundtrack of Divergent, Ellie Goulding sang Beating Heart, while Zedd took the stage for Find You.

Best kiss went to Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Will Poulter.


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