1996 MTV Movie Awards

• Whitney Houston — "Why Does It Hurt So Bad"
• Garbage — "Only Happy When It Rains"
• Roberta Flack and Fugees — "Killing Me Softly"
• Adam Sandler — "Mel Gibson"

• Claire Danes and Shaquille O'Neal — presented Most Desirable Female
• Samantha Mathis and Anthony Kiedis — presented Best Fight
• Janeane Garofalo — introduced Whitney Houston
• Vanessa Williams and Laurence Fishburne — presented Best On-Screen Duo
• Natalie Portman and Gabriel Byrne — presented Best Villain
• Kiss — presented Best Kiss
• Janeane Garofalo — introduced Garbage
• Lela Rochon — presented Best Song
• Patrick Stewart — presented the Lifetime Achievement Award
• David Duchovny and Penelope Ann Miller — presented Breakthrough Performance
• Ben Stiller — introduced Fugees
• Jamie Lee Curtis — presented Best Action Sequence
• Patricia Arquette — presented Best New Filmmaker
• Garry Shandling — presented Best Sandwich in a Movie
• Jenny McCarthy and Jon Lovitz — presented Best Female Performance
• Ben Stiller — introduced Adam Sandler
• Ellen DeGeneres — presented Best Male Performance
• Whoopi Goldberg — presented Best Movie

Below are the list of nominations.^[3] Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.^[4][5][6] There was also an award unique to that year called "Best Sandwich in a Movie".^[7]