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Rita Ora, left, rips open Zac Efron's shirt as he accepts the award for best shirtless performance on stage at the MTV Movie Awards. Photo / AP

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire earned the prize for best film at the MTV Movie Awards, besting even top Oscar winner 12 Years a Slave.

Hunger Games stars also took home some of the night's biggest awards. Jennifer Lawrence won best female performance and Josh Hutcherson was voted best male performer.

Zany categories were also in abundance. Zac Efron earned best shirtless performance, while properly accepting his award shirtless.

Honours also went to Mark Wahlberg and Channing Tatum. And a special tribute was paid to the late Paul Walker.

But it was summer movie teasers, from X-Men: Days of Future Past to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, that dominated the live ceremony hosted by Conan O'Brien.

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Winners of the 2014 MTV Movie Awards:

Movie Of The Year
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Female Performance
Jennifer Lawrence - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Jennifer Aniston - We're the Millers
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave

Best Male Performance
Josh Hutcherson - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Breakthrough Performance
Will Poulter - We're the Millers
Liam James - The Way Way Back
Michael B. Jordan - Fruitvale Station
Margot Robbie - The Wolf of Wall Street
Miles Teller - The Spectacular Now

Best Kiss
Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Will Poulter - We're the Millers
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams - American Hustle
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson - Don Jon
James Franco, Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens - Spring Breakers
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller - The Spectacular Now

Best Fight
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly vs. Orcs
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues - Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner and Steve Carell vs. James Marsden vs. Sacha Baron Cohen vs. Kanye West vs. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vs. Jim Carrey and Marion Cotillard vs. Will Smith vs. Liam Neeson and John C. Reilly vs. Greg Kinnear
Identity Thief - Jason Bateman vs. Melissa McCarthy
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin vs. Mutant Monkeys
This is the End - Jonah Hill vs. James Franco and Seth Rogen

Best Comedic Performance
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
Kevin Hart - Ride Along
Johnny Knoxville - Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Melissa McCarthy - The Heat
Jason Sudeikis - We're the Millers

Best Shirtless Performance
Zac Efron - That Awkward Moment
Sam Claflin - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jennifer Aniston - We're the Millers
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Chris Hemsworth - Thor: The Dark World

Best Villain
Mila Kunis - Oz The Great and Powerful
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Benedict Cumberbatch - Star Trek into Darkness
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Donald Sutherland - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Best On-Screen Transformation
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Elizabeth Banks - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Orlando Bloom - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Musical Moment
Backstreet Boys, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and Craig Robinson perform in heaven - This is the End
Jennifer Lawrence sings Live and Let Die - American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio pops and locks - The Wolf of Wall Street
Melissa McCarthy sings Barracuda - Identity Thief
Will Poulter sings Waterfalls - We're the Millers

Best Cameo Performance
Rihanna - This is the End
Robert De Niro - American Hustle
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey - Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Kanye West - Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Joan Rivers - Iron Man 3

Miley Cyrus MTV VMA performance - disturbing! - video

Miley Cyrus MTV performance draws complaints

The Parents Television Council said the performance was 'unacceptable'

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Miley Cyrus's risque performance at the MTV VMAs has drawn complaints from a parenting pressure group in the US.

The Parents Television Council (PTC) issued a complaint against the channel over the 20-year-old's routine, which saw her dance suggestively in a nude bikini with singer Robin Thicke.

It argued the show should not have been rated as suitable for 14 year olds, adding: "Heads should roll at MTV."

Miley's father Billy Ray Cyrus is among those on the PTC's advisory board.

However, he is unlikely to have been party to the complaint, which also criticised MTV for airing a condom advert during the show.

"This much is absolutely clear: MTV marketed adults-only material to children while falsely manipulating the content rating to make parents think the content was safe for their children," Dan Isett, the PTC's director of public policy said.

"MTV continues to sexually exploit young women by promoting acts that incorporate 'twerking' [a sexually-suggestive dance] in a nude-coloured bikini.

"How is this image of former child star Miley Cyrus appropriate for 14-year-olds?"

'Really disturbing'

Advisory board member Paul Porter added: "The Miley Cyrus/Robin Thicke performance simply substituted talent with sex.

He said that MTV's owners Viacom had "obviously broken" its own standards "for financial gain".

The PTC also criticised Lady Gaga's opening act, which she ended in a sea-shell bikini, and another advert for an R-rated film during the first commercial break.

Cyrus said her performance attracted '306,000 tweets per minute'

According to its website, the PTC was founded to "ensure that children are not constantly assaulted by sex, violence and profanity on television and in other media".

Cyrus's performance also drew criticism from a number of US media outlets over her performance.

On MSNBC, Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski called it "really, really disturbing", while NBC's Anna Chan called it"embarrassingly raunchy".

However other critics praised the performance, including Billboard's Bill Werde and Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield,who said: "Miley stole the night".

Cyrus appears to be unaffected by the criticism, tweeting: "My VMA performance had 306,000 tweets per minute. That's more than the blackout or Superbowl!"

Music industry sources say the former Disney star can expect a sales boost of between 10 and 20% as a result.

Her new album, Bangerz, is due for release in October but has been climbing the digital charts based on pre-orders alone, while her single We Can't Stop is in the top five in both the UK and North America.

The MTV VMAs has often been a source of controversy. In 2001, Britney Spears gave a raunchy rendition of her hit I'm A Slave 4 U, with a python draped over her shoulders.

Two years later Madonna kissed Spears and Christina Aguilera on stage, and in 2009 Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for best female video, ranting that Beyonce should have won instead.