Here's every winner of the coveted MTV Movie Award For Best Scared-As-S*** Performance. The MTV Movie & TV Awards began in 1992 and offer a more lighthearted approach to the typical awards ceremonies like the Academy Awards. In addition to expected categories like Best Performance or Best Movie, there are significantly more tongue-in-cheek awards like Best Shirtless Performance or Best Jaw Dropping Moment. It's also given Lifetime Achievement Awards to the likes of Godzilla and Jason Voorhees.

The MTV Movie & TV Awards are also famous for their movie parodies, with some of the best including Justin Timberlake and Seann William Scott's version of The Matrix Reloaded - AKA MTV Reloaded - or Ben Stiller as Tom Crooze, the rarely used stuntman for Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible II. It's presently unclear if the MTV Movie & TV Awards ceremony will happen this year, as it was pushed back from its traditional Summer slot due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was talk of the show happening in December instead, but this has yet to be confirmed.

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The MTV Movie & TV Awards have a history of creating categories that only get used once or twice before disappearing, such as 1996's Best Sandwich In A Movie - awarded to Smoke's Ham and Cheese Sandwich - or Biggest Badass Star. One category that's stuck around is the MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-S*** Performance, focusing on particularly intense performances from the horror or thriller genre. Here's a rundown of every winner.

Jennifer Carpenter in The Exorcism of Emily Rose
  • Dakota Fanning - Hide And Seek (2005)
  • Jennifer Carpenter - The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (2006)
  • Amanda Seyfried - Jennifer's Body (2010)
  • Ellen Page - Inception (2011)
  • Suraj Sharma - Life Of Pi (2013)
  • Brad Pitt - World War Z (2014)
  • Jennifer Lopez - The Boy Next Door (2015)
  • Noah Schnapp - Stranger Things (2018)
  • Sandra Bullock - Bird Box (2019)

The category was introduced in 2005 and the first Movie Award For Best Scared-As-S*** Performance went to Dakota Fanning for lukewarm horror Hide And Seek, and she triumphed over performers like Jennifer Tilly in Seed Of Chucky. The award was retired after 2006 only to return again with the tamer title of Best Frightened Performance, which went to Amanda Seyfried for Jennifer's Body, with other nominees that year including Alison Lohman in Drag Me To Hell or Katie Featherston for Paranormal Activity.

The category then went back to the name MTV Movie Award For Best Scared-As-S*** Performance in 2013, which was awarded to Suraj Sharma for Life Of Pi. The award comes and goes depending on the year, with the most recent winners being Stranger Things' Noah Schnapp in 2018 and Sandra Bullock in 2019 for Bird Box.

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