The 2007 MTV Movie Awards were hosted by acerbic American comedian Sarah Silverman, and featured musical performances by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z performing her new hit "Umbrella", and English blues chanteuse Amy Winehouse, performing a medley of "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good".

Held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, in a first for the Awards, it was the first MTV Movie Awards show to be broadcast live to American audiences.

'Survivor' producer Mark Burnett directed the show and executive produced this years ceremony, with nominees announced on April 30, 2007, and voting for the main categories running until the end of May for American audienced to vote on.

As always, parodies of films played a major part in the telecast, and this year included The Devil Wears Prada, Transformers, and 300.

Winners on the night included:

Best Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best Performance: Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Breakthrough Performance: Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Comedic Performance: Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Best Kiss: Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Best Villain: Jack Nicholson - The Departed

Best Fight: Gerard Butler vs. "The Uber Immortal" (The Spartan/Persian Battle) - 300

Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet: Transformers

mtvU Best Filmmaker On Campus: Josh Greenbaum - Border Patrol (University of Southern California)

MTV Generation Award: Mike Myers

MTV Movie Spoof Award: United 300 by Andy Signore

The Orbit Dirtiest Mouth Moment: Clerks II

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