MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance

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

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
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2023	Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus	Jesse Tyler Ferguson – Cocaine Bear
Justin Long – Barbarian
Rachel Sennott – Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sosie Bacon – Smile