Films That Have Won Oscars and MTV Movie Awards: From ‘Titanic’ to ‘Black Panther’

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Films That Have Won Oscars and MTV Movie Awards: From 'Titanic' to 'Black Panther'

It's not easy to win an Oscar or an MTV Movie Award, but it's even harder to win one of each — a movie that gets both has to be critically beloved and also, well, fun. The MTV Movie Awards debuted in 1992, with a ceremony hosted by Dennis Miller. That year, the big winner was Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which won six of the seven categories it was nominated in, including Best Movie, Best Male Performance for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Best Female Performance for Linda Hamilton. The only trophy it lost was Best Song From a Movie, which went to Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. In the years since that first show, the ceremony has become known for outrageous parodies of blockbusters and Oscar winners, as well as unique categories like Best Kiss, Best Fight and Best Villain. The ceremony also expanded in 2017 to honor television shows as well as movies and was renamed the MTV Movie & TV Awards. In 2021, the show will include a second night of awards for reality TV shows called MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted. [jwplayer RUp31KVu-l3ahXupL] While it might seem like a show that hands out Golden Popcorn trophies wouldn't have much in common with the most prestigious awards event of them all, there are actually plenty of movies that have been honored at both ceremonies. Even in that first year, the two shows handed out awards to the same films. In addition to its six MTV Movie Awards, Terminator 2 earned four Oscars — Best Makeup, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects. By contrast, The Silence of the Lambs, the Academy's choice for Best Picture, didn't win a single bucket of Golden Popcorn. MTV has retired some of the show's stranger categories — pour one out for Best Sandwich in a Movie, which was only awarded in 1996 — but even some of the weirder prizes were given to films that also took home Hollywood's most desirable gold. Pulp Fiction, for example, won Best Original Screenplay at the 1995 Academy Awards, then went on to win Best Dance Sequence for John Travolta and Uma Thurman's iconic twist at Jack Rabbit Slim's. (That award last went to Seann William Scott in 2004 for American Wedding.) Keep scrolling for a list of some of the films that have taken home Oscars and Golden Popcorn trophies:

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'Top Gun: Maverick'

The Tom Cruise flick won Best Sound at the Academy Awards in March 2023. Two months later, Cruise accepted the golden popcorn for Best Performance in a Movie at the MTV Movie & TV Awards while piloting his jet. 

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'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'

The 2020 drama took home Oscars for Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling before the late Chadwick Boseman earned the Golden Popcorn for Best Performance in a Movie for his role as Levee Green. Boseman was Oscar-nominated for the performance as well, but he lost to Anthony Hopkins for The Father.

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'A Star Is Born'

Bradley Cooper's remake of the classic Hollywood tale won only one Oscar in 2019 — Best Original Song for "Shallow" — but snagged two MTV Awards for Best Musical Moment and Best Performance, which went to Lady Gaga.

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'Black Panther'

The groundbreaking Marvel film became the first superhero movie nominated for Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars, though it lost to Green Book. Costume designer Ruth E. Carter, however, made history as the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. At MTV’s show, the movie cleaned up with three wins, including Best Hero for Boseman.

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'Moonlight'

Moonlight famously won Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars after Faye Dunaway first announced La La Land as the winner by mistake. It also took home Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali. MTV, meanwhile, honored the film with Best Kiss.

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'Get Out'

The instantly iconic horror movie won two awards at the inaugural 2017 Movie & TV Awards: Best Comedic Performance for Lil Rel Howery and Next Generation for future Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya. At the 2018 Oscars, director Jordan Peele took home the golden statue for Best Original Screenplay.

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'The Revenant'

By the time Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar in February 2016, MTV had already given him three buckets of popcorn. Less than two months later, he won his fourth when the network presented him with the trophy for Best Male Performance. Fighting a bear is really the ticket to awards show success!

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'Mad Max: Fury Road'

The post-apocalyptic action movie won six Oscars in 2016 and one MTV Movie Award.

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'Dallas Buyers Club'

Jared Leto won Best On-Screen Transformation at MTV in 2014 as well as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

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'Silver Linings Playbook'

Jennifer Lawrence's first Oscar win came in 2013, but her turn in Silver Linings Playbook also earned her the MTV Award that year for Best Female Performance.

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'Skyfall'

Adele won Best Original Song for Skyfall's theme song of the same name in 2013. The James Bond movie also took home an MTV Award for Best Latino Actor, given to Javier Bardem for his portrayal of the villain Raoul Silva.

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'Life of Pi'

In 2013, Life of Pi was the winningest film at the Oscars, taking home four trophies, but it also picked up a Golden Popcorn for Best Scared-as-S—t Performance for Suraj Sharma.

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'Django Unchained'

Quentin Tarantino's controversial film won two Academy Awards in 2013 — Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor — as well as MTV's Best Gut-Wrenching Performance (formerly known as the Best #WTF Moment award).

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'Inception'

In 2011, Christopher Nolan's mind-bending thriller took home four Oscars and one Golden Popcorn — Best Scared-as-S—t Performance for Elliot Page.

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'The Dark Knight'

The late Heath Ledger won a rare posthumous Oscar for his turn as the Joker in this 2008 film, as well as the MTV trophy for Best Villain.

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'The Departed'

Director Martin Scorsese was certainly pleased with his four Academy wins in 2007, but MTV's Best Villain award for Jack Nicholson can't have hurt either.

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'Brokeback Mountain'

In 2006, the heartbreaking romance won three Oscars as well as the all-important Best Kiss trophy, presented to Ledger and costar Jake Gyllenhaal.

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'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'

The final entry in the original Lord of the Rings trilogy won all 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for in 2004, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also had a clean sweep at the MTV Movie Awards, where it won both trophies it was nominated for: Best Movie and Best Action Sequence.

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'Moulin Rouge!'

Baz Luhrmann's lush musical took home two Oscars in 2002 for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction, but MTV paid tribute to the real star of the show — Nicole Kidman, who won Best Female Performance and Best Musical Sequence with costar Ewan McGregor.

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'Training Day'

Denzel Washington won his first Oscar in 2002 for this gritty crime drama, but he also took home the Golden Popcorn for Best Villain. Additionally, Snoop Dogg won MTV's prize for Best Cameo.

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'Erin Brockovich'

As the titular Erin Brockovich in 2001, Julia Roberts pulled off the rare feat of earning her first Academy Award and her first MTV Movie Award in the same year.

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'Gladiator'

The Roman period drama took home five Oscars in 2001 and became one of only three movies to win both Best Picture at the Academy Awards and Best Movie at the MTV Movie Awards. (The others are Titanic and The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King.)

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'The Matrix'

The Keanu Reeves action classic won four Oscars in technical categories in 2000, as well as three buckets of popcorn: Best Movie, Best Male Performance and Best Fight.

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'Titanic'

A full 18 years before the Academy deigned to do so, MTV gave DiCaprio an acting award for his performance in the beloved smash hit. Surprisingly, the movie did not win Best Kiss in 1998, losing to The Wedding Singer, but its 11 Oscars presumably made up for that crushing blow.