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MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance

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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.

Awarded forMost Frightened Performance
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First awardJune 4, 2005
Quick facts for Most Frightened Performance, Awarded for ...
MTV Movie & TV Award for Most Frightened Performance
Awarded forMost Frightened Performance
CountryUnited States
Presented byMTV
First awardJune 4, 2005
Currently held byJennifer Coolidge,
The White Lotus (2023)
Most nominationsJessica Chastain (2)
Dakota Fanning (2)
Victoria Pedretti (2)
WebsiteMTV.com
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Winners and nominees

First winner of this award category Dakota Fanning on her performance in Hide and Seek, 2005
2010 winner Amanda Seyfried on her main performance in Jennifer's Body
2014 winner Brad Pitt on his main performance in World War Z
2018 winner Noah Schnapp on his main performance as Will Byers in season 2 of Stranger Things
Most recent winner Jennifer Coolidge on her performance as Tanya McQuoid in season 2 of The White Lotus, 2023
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YearActor
Movie		NominatedRef.
2005Dakota Fanning – Hide and SeekCary Elwes – Saw
Sarah Michelle Gellar – The Grudge
Mýa – Cursed
Jennifer Tilly – Seed of Chucky		[2]
2006Jennifer Carpenter – The Exorcism of Emily RoseDakota Fanning – War of the Worlds
Paris Hilton – House of Wax
Rachel Nichols – The Amityville Horror
Derek Richardson – Hostel		[3]
2010Amanda Seyfried – Jennifer's BodySharlto Copley – District 9
Jesse Eisenberg – Zombieland
Katie Featherston – Paranormal Activity
Alison Lohman – Drag Me to Hell		[4]
2011Elliot Page – InceptionAshley Bell – The Last Exorcism
Minka Kelly – The Roommate
Ryan Reynolds – Buried
Jessica Szohr – Piranha 3D		[5]
2013Suraj Sharma – Life of PiAlexandra 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]
2014Brad Pitt – World War ZEthan Hawke – The Purge
Jessica Chastain – Mama
Rose Byrne – Insidious: Chapter 2
Vera Farmiga – The Conjuring		[7]
2015Jennifer Lopez – The Boy Next DoorAnnabelle Wallis – Annabelle
Dylan O'Brien – The Maze Runner
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Zach Gilford – The Purge: Anarchy		[8]
2018Noah Schnapp – Stranger ThingsTalitha Bateman – Annabelle: Creation
Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place
Sophia Lillis – It
Cristin Milioti – Black Mirror		[9]
2019Sandra Bullock – Bird BoxAlex Wolff – Hereditary
Linda Cardellini – The Curse of La Llorona
Rhian Rees – Halloween
Victoria Pedretti – The Haunting of Hill House		[10]
2021Victoria Pedretti – The Haunting of Bly ManorSimona Brown – Behind Her Eyes
Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man
Jurnee Smollett – Lovecraft Country
Vince Vaughn – Freaky		[11]
2022Jenna Ortega – ScreamMia Goth – X
Kyle Richards – Halloween Kills
Millicent Simmonds – A Quiet Place Part II
Sadie Sink – Fear Street Part Two: 1978		[12]
2023Jennifer Coolidge – The White LotusJesse Tyler Ferguson – Cocaine Bear
Justin Long – Barbarian
Rachel Sennott – Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sosie Bacon – Smile
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