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'Twilight,' 'Slumdog' dominate MTV Movie Award nominations


Is there anything that sucks about "Twilight?"

Apparently not.

Fans chose the nominees for this year's MTV Movie Awards and, big surprise, “Twilight” walked away today with seven noms, one more than “Slumdog Millionaire.”

The voting begins today at www.mtv.com to determine who takes home the Golden Popcorn trophies on May 31.

Andy Samberg from “Saturday Night Live” will host the show and Eminem is already lined up to perform.

“Twilight” earned nominations for Best Movie, Best Female Performance (Kristen Stewart) and Breakthrough Performance Male (Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner).

"Slumdog Millionaire" has six nominations, including Best Movie, Breakthrough Performance Female (Freida Pinto) and Breakthrough Performance Male (Dev Patel.)

Joining "Twilight" and "Slumdog" in the Best Movie category are "The Dark Knight," "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" and "Iron Man."

Best Song From a Movie nominees in a brand-new category this year include tracks from "Hannah Montana" (Miley Cyrus) and "The Wrestler" (Bruce Springsteen).

Best WTF Moment nominees include Ben Stiller tasting a decapitated head ("Tropic Thunder") and Amy Poehler peeing in a sink (""Baby Mama"").

The Best Kiss category will see another showdown between "Twilight" (Stewart and Pattinson) and "Slumdog" (Pinto and Patel).

They'll go up against guy-on-guy lip locks: James Franco and Sean Penn ("Milk"), and Paul Rudd and Thomas Lennon ("I Love You, Man").

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