Revenge Nominated for One MTV Movie Award

MTV has announced the final list of nominees for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards that will air on the network on June 6th, at 9PM EST. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had been part of six categories in total including Best Movie but that has been reduced to one with a nomination for "Best WTF Moment" involving Isabel Lucas' transformation into a Decepticon Pretender. Lucas' will have to compete with her TF2 co-star Megan Fox who was also nominated in the category for Jennifer's Body and the projectile vomit scene. Click here to vote for your favorite movie in the various categories.

Best WTF Moment
Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) - Pretender moment
Betty White (The Proposal) - White feels up Bullock during wedding dress fitting
Bill Murray (Zombieland) - Cameo as himself
Ken Jeong (The Hangover) - Pops out of trunk naked
Megan Fox (Jennifer's Body) - Projectile vomit

Transformers 2 in Six MTV Movie Awards Categories

Just when you thought the award shows ended with the Oscars, we get a reminder that there is one more to go. The MTV Movie Awards has opened up voting for nominees through April 9th for your favorite movies and stars in many categories.

From these votes a short list of nominees will be determined which will open a final round of voting from May 11th to June 5th. The winners will be announced live on MTV on June 6th at 9PM EST. From what I can tell the list seems to be based on movies released between March 2009 to March 2010 (only way to explain Hot Tub Time Machine's inclusion). This year Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has a chance in six categories. Also added the other categories Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf are listed in case want to spread the Transformers love around.

Transformers 2 specific categories
Best Movie
Best WTF Moment - Isabel Lucas, pretender moment of turning into a Decepticon
Best Ass Kicking Star - Shia LaBeouf
Best Female Breakout Star - Isabel Lucas
Best Female Performance - Megan Fox
Best Male Performance - Shia LaBeouf

Support Transformers stars categories
Best Kiss - Amanda Seyfried & Megan Fox (Jennifer's Body)
Best Fight - Megan Fox vs Amanda Seyfried(Jennifer's Body)
Best Villain - Megan Fox(Jennifer's Body)
Best WTF Moment - Megan Fox, projectile vomits(Jennifer's Body)
Global Superstar - Shia LaBeouf

Oddly, Transformers was not included in the Best Fight category yet Jennifer's Body was. I don't think nominees are limited to human actors (beside voice work counts). On the bright side, MTV does allow for "write-in" votes at the bottom of the page for each category so nothing stopping you from making your own choices. Personally, the Forest Fight of Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) vs. Megatron (Hugo Weaving), Starscream (Charlie Adler) and Grindor strikes me as worthy.

To vote for Transformers: ROTF and other favorites, click here. The website does require you have or create an account and you can only make one choice per category so I guess some will have a hard choice to make.

While voting, make sure to give Betty White some love for Best Comedic Performance. The possibility of her winning and appearing at the show just strikes me something worth seeing. Thanks to Katie for the link.

Transformers 2 Loses Best Sound Mixing Oscar

To no surprise really, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen did not win an Oscar for Best Sound Mixing category. It lost to The Hurt Locker. I assumed Avatar was a lock. With the end of the Oscars, this officially ends the award season so Michael Bay and company will remain empty handed with a chance to give it another try with Transformers 3. The full list of winners can be found here.

Sound Mixing
* “Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
* “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett] (winner)
* “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
* “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
* “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Revenge of the Fallen Tops Razzies With Three Wins (Updated)

On the eve of the Academy Awards, the Golden Raspberry Award winners were announced. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as the dubious distinction of winning the most Razzies with three including Worst Picture. Michael Bay "won" for Worst Director while Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Ehren Kruger won for Worst Screenplay.

Other "winners" include Sandra Bullock (Worst Actress, All About Steve) on the eve of likely winning Best Actress Oscar, The Jonas Brothers (Worst Actor), Sienna Miller (Worst Supporting Actress, GI Joe), and more. Amazingly Land of the Lost, easily one of the worst films of the decade, only got one win with Worst Remake/Rip-Off or Sequel. The press release is here, the full list of "winners" here.

Over at TrekMovie, the writing team provided their "acceptance comments":

Bob: I’d like to thank my partners Alex and Ehren who really lead the way on this one.

Alex: I wouldn’t be in a position to receive this award without Ehren and Bob. They really deserve most of the credit.

Ehren: As you know, Bob and Alex were the experts on this movie having written the first one, and I was just lucky to be able to be a part of this award winning team.

Update: For your entertainment, the Razzie acceptance speech from Sandra Bullock who has promised to show up if she "won."

Transformers 2 Nominated for Three Kid's Choice Awards

The nominations for Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards have been announced. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen received three nominations for Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Actor, and Favorite Movie Actress. Linkin Park, whose New Divide single was used in the movie, was also nominated for Favorite Music Group. In related note Tom Kenny, the voice of Wheelie and Skids, is also the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants which is up for Favorite Cartoon. Each nominee also have "Fan Kits" which are essentially banner ads of various sizes recommending a vote as seem with image for this post.

The full list of nominees can be found here. To vote, click here. The winners will be announced live on Nickelodeon on March 27th starting at 8PM EST.

The nominees in TF related categories:
Favorite Movie - Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, Transformers: ROTF, New Moon, Wolverine
Favorite Movie Actor - Zac Efron, Taylor Lautner, Shia LaBeouf, Tyler Perry
Favorite Movie Actress - Sandra Bullock, Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox, Zoe Saldana
Favorite Music Group - Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay, Jonas Brothers, Linkin Park

Transformers: ROTF Recieves Only One Oscar Nomination

This morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its official list of nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards. The goal - to win the coveted Oscar, which indicates the winners produced the best work in their field for 2009 and of course get to add that line "Oscar winning..." to their resumes from now on.

The Academy gives out a lot of awards with only the prime categories being award live on ABC Sunday, March 7th, 2010. Sadly Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was shut out in all categories except for Sound Mixing. I really thought they were going to get nods also for Sound Editing and Visual Effects. Instead the FX nod is for Star Trek, District 9, and Avatar (which has the easy win here). Click here for the full list of nominees in the various categories.

Sound Mixing
“Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
“The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
“Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
“Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Revenge Nominated for Seven Razzies

Today was not a good day for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which seven nominations for the Razzie Awards tied it with Land of the Lost as the worst film of 2009. Where the Oscars reward for excellence in film, the Razzies "reward" for making bad films. Clearly their nominating committee did not like the film at all. It seems they didn't like Bay's directing, the script, Julie White's high on brownies performance, anything to do with Fox and more. Some of the nominations (Fox, the script) seem valid, but others do not (White, Bay, etc).

'Transformers,' to me, is the personification of what's wrong with Hollywood right now," [Razzie Author John Wilson] said. "It's all about do what already worked, pander to the audience, put in a lot of special effects. ... It's almost as though when they were editing the thing they had a little egg timer running, and every seven minutes something had to blow up or somebody had to yell, 'Go go go go! Run run run run!'

The "winners" receive a hand-made, spray-painted gold trophy" that is worth about five dollars. Much like the nominations are announced the day before the Oscar noms, so too is the reward "ceremony". The Gala 30th Annual Razzie Awards will be held March 6th at Barnsdall Gallery in Hollywood, CA. The categories and the competition for ROTF is below, click here for find out the rest.

Worst Picture
'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
'All About Steve'
'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'
'Land of the Lost'
'Old Dogs'

Worst Actress
Megan Fox - 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
Beyonce Knowles - 'Obsessed'
Sandra Bullock - 'All About Steve'
Miley Cyrus - 'Hannah Montana: The Movie'
Sarah Jessica Parker - 'Did You Hear About The Morgans?'

Worst Screen Couple
Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox or any Transformer - 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas - 'Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience'
Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper - 'All About Steve'
Will Ferrell and any co-star, creature or "comic riff" - 'Land of the Lost'
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner - 'Twilight Saga: New Moon'

Worst Supporting Actress
Julie White - 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
Candice Bergen - 'Bride Wars'
Ali Larter - 'Obsessed'
Sienna Miller - 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'
Kelly Preston - 'Old Dogs'

Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel
'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'
'Land of the Lost'
'Pink Panther 2'
'Twilight Saga: New Moon'

Worst Director
Michael Bay - 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
Walt Beeker - 'Old Dogs'
Brad Silberling - 'Land of the Lost'
Stephen Sommers - 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'
Phil Traill - 'All About Steve'

Worst Screenplay
'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'
'All About Steve'
'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'
'Land of the Lost'
'Twilight Saga: New Moon'

Transformers Linkfest

Alternity A-4 and Transforming Buzz Lightyear
The Disney Label is expanding to include a transforming Buzz Lightyear while the Alternity version of Starscream and Skywarp seems to be have been confirmed to be a Mitsuoka Orochi according to the images below from BigBadToyStore.com.


G1 Transformers Game Coming to iPhone
Glu Mobile's Transformers G1: Awakening is "coming soon" to the iPhone. The game is apparently a converted version of a mobile game that was released sometime in late 2008. The game appears to feature many G1 classic characters and looks almost like a version of Advance Wars. Below is a non-audio trailer of the mobile version.


VES Nominates Revenge of the Fallen
The Visual Effects Society has announced their nominees for the 8th Annual VES Awards and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen received one for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture" (wow that is a mouth full). The competition includes 2012, Avatar, District 9, and Star Trek. Sadly this is the year of Avatar so Michael Bay and co is going to have to get use to saying "It is just an honor to be nominated."

Transformers: Animated CGI Style
Click the link to view three images of what appears to be a CGI version of Transformers: Animated toys for the Versus sets that will be released with the rest of the line for Japan. The images include Optimus vs. Megatron, Bumblebee vs. Starscream and Ratchet vs. Lockdown.

ROTF Remains on Oscar VFX Shorter List

The number of movies still in contention for an Academy Award for Visual Effects has gone from 15 to 7 according to the LA Times. Fortunately Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen remains on the list. Some contenders removed include Watchmen, Sherlock Holmes, and A Christmas Carol. Remaining contenders:

- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Star Trek
- Avatar
- District 9
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Terminator Salvation
- 2012

The next step in the process is for the Academy's VFX panel to view 15-minute clips and vote on three as the official nominees for the award. The final three will be announced on February 2nd with the winner rewarded during the ceremony on March 7th. Avatar is a clear lock for one of the spots (and likely the award winner). My guess the final two spots are between Transformers: ROTF, Star Trek, and 2012.

Transformers: ROTF On Oscar VFX Short List

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has been selected as one of fifteen semi-finalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the upcoming Academy Awards. In early January, the list will be cut to fifteen. Next on January 21st, Academy members will screen 15-minute excerpts to choose the final three for official nomination announcement on February 2nd. The Oscar will be rewarded during the live telecast on March 7th. Sadly the excerpts are rarely released to the public, which is a shame as the audience the awards are for should at least be able to join the debate even if don't have an influence on the results. Besides it never hurts to show off a movie.

The full list of semi-finalists:
Angels & Demons, Avatar, Coraline, Disney's A Christmas Carol, District 9, G-Force, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 2012, Watchmen and Where the Wild Things Are (via Dark Horizons)

Transformers :ROTF Video Game Nominations

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Video Game has been nominated in two categories for Spike TV's Video Game Awards for 2009. One is for "Best Performance by a Human Female" for Megan Fox and "Best Performance by a Human Male" for Shia LaBeouf. It seems a lot of the nominations for these categories are less about superior voice work in video games (only "famous" people did good voice work?) but really so they can some stars for the awards program that will air live on Saturday, December 12 at 8:00PM on Spike TV.

The competition for Fox is Kristen Bell (Assassin's Creed 2), Eliza Dushku (Wet: Bethesda Wetworks), and Tricia Helfer (Halo 3: ODST). Shia is competing against Bill Murray (Ghostbusters), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Samuel L. Jackson (Afro Samurai), and Vin Diesel (The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena).

To vote for your favorite video games in these categories and more click here. (via TFW2005)

Shia, Megan Nominated for People's Choice Awards

Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf have been nominated in several categories in the People's Choice Awards for their work on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Shia is up for "Favorite Action Star" against Christian Bale, Gerald Butler, Hugh Jackman, and Vin Diesel. The duo are also nominated for "Favorite On-Screen Team" against the teams from Harry Potter 6, The Proposal, Twilight, and Wolverine. Transformers sadly isn't up for favorite movie but it is up for "Favorite Franchise" against Harry Potter, Twilight Saga, Star Trek and X-Men.

To vote for your favorites in the above characters and many more for television, movies and music, click here. Winners will be announced live during the People's Choice Awards telecast on Wednesday January 6th by CBS.

Transformers 2 Wins Three Scream Awards

Saturday Night, the Spike TV Scream Awards ceremony was held at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took home three awards - Best Sci-Fi Actress for Megan Fox, Best Special Effects and Best Breakthrough Performance for Isabel Lucas.

Probably the highlight of the night for Transformers fans was Megan Fox accepting her award and using the moment to set the record straight about her not being killed off in the third film and her feelings about the franchise.

"I would like to take this moment to actually say something genuine. There have been a lot of false reports concerning how I feel about this movie and I just want to be very clear that I've always felt that I am a very ordinary part of an extraordinary film. These movies took me out of obscurity and they gave me a career and I am completely grateful to everyone involved with this franchise."

The full list of winners can be found here. The telecast of the award ceremony will air on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27th from 10:00pm to midnight ET/PT.

Transformers ROTF Nominated for Scream Awards

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen recieved six nominations for Spike TV's 2009 Scream Awards. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 17th at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. I guess the Transformers crew should feel honored but realistically the Spike Awards have no credibility to speak of as it is a popularity contest that attempts to mimic (poorly) the MTV Movie Awards.

The movie was nominated for "Ultimate Scream", "Best Science Fiction Movie, "Best Sequel", "Best Director", "Best Actor in a Science Fiction Movie or TV Show" (for Shia LaBeouf) and "Best Actress in a Science Fiction Movie or TV Show" (for Megan Fox). I am a bit suprised that the movie didn't get a nomination for "The Holy Sh#@ Scene of the Year" category for the forest battle or Devastator merge especially considering what was nominated (see below).

The nominations were decided by the awards "Advisory Board" that includes Tim Burton, Wes Craven, Roland Emmerich, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller and Eli Rith. If you want to vote for your favorite movie, head to the Scream Award website.

The six categories to see the competition: