MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance

Last updated
MTV Movie & TV Award for Most Frightened Performance
Awarded forMost Frightened Performance
Country United States
Presented by MTV
First awardedJune 4, 2005
Currently held by Jennifer Coolidge,
The White Lotus (2023)
Most nominations Jessica Chastain (2)
Dakota Fanning (2)
Victoria Pedretti (2)
Website MTV.com

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. [1] 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

Inaugural recipient Dakota Fanning Dakota Fanning, 2009.jpg
Inaugural recipient Dakota Fanning
Jennifer Lopez won the award in 2015 Jennifer Lopez at GLAAD Media Awards (cropped).jpg
Jennifer Lopez won the award in 2015
YearActor
Movie
NominatedRef.
2005 Dakota Fanning Hide and Seek Cary Elwes Saw
Sarah Michelle Gellar The Grudge
Mýa Cursed
Jennifer Tilly Seed of Chucky
[2]
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
[3]
2010 Amanda Seyfried Jennifer's Body Sharlto Copley District 9
Jesse Eisenberg Zombieland
Katie Featherston Paranormal Activity
Alison Lohman Drag Me to Hell
[4]
2011 Elliot Page Inception Ashley Bell The Last Exorcism
Minka Kelly The Roommate
Ryan Reynolds Buried
Jessica Szohr Piranha 3D
[5]
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
[6]
2014 Brad Pitt World War Z Ethan Hawke The Purge
Jessica Chastain Mama
Rose Byrne Insidious: Chapter 2
Vera Farmiga The Conjuring
[7]
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
[8]
2018 Noah Schnapp Stranger Things Talitha Bateman Annabelle: Creation
Emily Blunt A Quiet Place
Sophia Lillis It
Cristin Milioti Black Mirror
[9]
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
[10]
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
[11]
2022 Jenna Ortega Scream Mia Goth X
Kyle Richards Halloween Kills
Millicent Simmonds A Quiet Place Part II
Sadie Sink Fear Street Part Two: 1978
[12]
2023 Jennifer Coolidge The White Lotus Jesse Tyler Ferguson Cocaine Bear
Justin Long Barbarian
Rachel Sennott Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sosie Bacon Smile

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