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MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance
Annual movie award
Annual movie award
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | MTV Movie & TV Award for Most Frightened Performance |
| caption | The 2021 recipient: Victoria Pedretti. |
| awarded_for | Most Frightened Performance |
| presenter | MTV |
| country | United States |
| year | June 4, 2005 |
| holder | Jennifer Coolidge, |
| The White Lotus (2023) | |
| website | MTV.com |
| most_nominations | Jessica Chastain (2) |
| Dakota Fanning (2) | |
| Victoria Pedretti (2) |
The White Lotus (2023) Dakota Fanning (2) Victoria Pedretti (2)
The following is a list for the MTV Movie & TV Award winners for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance. The award was first given out in 2005, and then in 2006. In 2010 this award was renamed from Best Frightened Performance and renamed to Most Frightened Performance in 2022. The award was not presented in 2012. In 2013, it was given back its original name, Best Scared-As-Shit Performance. As of 2016, there have been seven winners of the award with five women and two men. Actresses Dakota Fanning, Jessica Chastain and Victoria Pedretti hold the distinction of the only people to hold more than one nomination in the category, with Fanning winning the inaugural award in 2005 and Pedretti winning in 2021. The award returned in 2018 under the title Best Frightened Performance.
Winners and nominees


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| Year | Actor | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movie | Nominated | Ref. | |||||
| 2005 | Dakota Fanning – Hide and Seek | Cary Elwes – Saw | |||||
| Sarah Michelle Gellar – The Grudge | |||||||
| Mýa – Cursed | |||||||
| Jennifer Tilly – Seed of Chucky | |||||||
| 2006 | Jennifer Carpenter – The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Dakota Fanning – War of the Worlds | |||||
| Paris Hilton – House of Wax | |||||||
| Rachel Nichols – The Amityville Horror | |||||||
| Derek Richardson – Hostel | |||||||
| 2010 | Amanda Seyfried – Jennifer's Body | Sharlto Copley – District 9 | |||||
| Jesse Eisenberg – Zombieland | |||||||
| Katie Featherston – Paranormal Activity | |||||||
| Alison Lohman – Drag Me to Hell | |||||||
| 2011 | Elliot Page – Inception | Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism | |||||
| Minka Kelly – The Roommate | |||||||
| Ryan Reynolds – Buried | |||||||
| Jessica Szohr – Piranha 3D | |||||||
| 2013 | Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi | Alexandra Daddario – Texas Chainsaw 3D | |||||
| Jennifer Lawrence – House at the End of the Street | |||||||
| Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty | |||||||
| Martin Freeman – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | |||||||
| 2014 | Brad Pitt – World War Z | Ethan Hawke – The Purge | |||||
| Jessica Chastain – Mama | |||||||
| Rose Byrne – Insidious: Chapter 2 | |||||||
| Vera Farmiga – The Conjuring | |||||||
| 2015 | Jennifer Lopez – The Boy Next Door | Annabelle Wallis – Annabelle | |||||
| Dylan O'Brien – The Maze Runner | |||||||
| Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl | |||||||
| Zach Gilford – The Purge: Anarchy | |||||||
| 2018 | Noah Schnapp – Stranger Things | Talitha Bateman – Annabelle: Creation | |||||
| Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place | |||||||
| Sophia Lillis – It | |||||||
| Cristin Milioti – Black Mirror | |||||||
| 2019 | Sandra Bullock – Bird Box | Alex Wolff – Hereditary | |||||
| Linda Cardellini – The Curse of La Llorona | |||||||
| Rhian Rees – Halloween | |||||||
| Victoria Pedretti – The Haunting of Hill House | |||||||
| 2021 | Victoria Pedretti – The Haunting of Bly Manor | Simona Brown – Behind Her Eyes | |||||
| Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man | |||||||
| Jurnee Smollett – Lovecraft Country | |||||||
| Vince Vaughn – Freaky | |||||||
| 2022 | Jenna Ortega – Scream | Mia Goth – X | |||||
| Kyle Richards – Halloween Kills | |||||||
| Millicent Simmonds – A Quiet Place Part II | |||||||
| Sadie Sink – Fear Street Part Two: 1978 | url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/mtv-movie-tv-awards-2022-winners-list-1235285214/ | title= MTV Movie and TV Awards Winners List 2022 (Updated Live) | website=Variety | first=Ethan | last=Shanfeld | date=June 5, 2022 | access-date=June 5, 2022}} |
| 2023 | Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus | Jesse Tyler Ferguson – Cocaine Bear | |||||
| Justin Long – Barbarian | |||||||
| Rachel Sennott – Bodies Bodies Bodies | |||||||
| Sosie Bacon – Smile |
References
References
- "MTV Movie Awards - Winners by Category". [[MTV]].
- "2005 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks).
- "2006 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks).
- "2010 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks).
- "2011 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks).
- "2013 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks).
- "2014 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks).
- "2015 MTV Movie Awards". MTV (MTV Networks).
- Bell, Crystal. "2018 MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS NOMINATIONS: SEE THE FULL LIST".
- "2019 MTV Movie Awards & TV Awards Winners". MTV (MTV Networks).
- "2021 MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS WINNERS: SEE THE FULL LIST". MTV (MTV Networks).
- Shanfeld, Ethan. (June 5, 2022). "MTV Movie and TV Awards Winners List 2022 (Updated Live)".
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