MTV Rolls Out The Red Carpet

Every year, the superstars and luminaries of Hollywood bask in the spotlight of MTVÂ's Movie Awards. As CBS This Morning Entertainment Correspondent Eleanor Mondale reports, if you really love a particular film that might not receive traditional honors like the Oscars or Golden Globes, you'll want to tune in to MTV Thursday.

Friends, fun, fashion, and fans all collided in Monday eveningÂ's pre-taped red carpet celebration of the MTV Movie Awards, where the winners are chosen by the viewers in a variety of eccentrically progressive categories.

Award categories like "best villain," "best fight," and "best kiss" make the evening both entertaining and irreverent.

"You know, this is da bomb," says Star Wars star Samuel L. Jackson. "You come here, everybody's here to have a great time."

In a minor mishap, Samuel l. Jackson and his Star Wars co-star Jake Lloyd tangled with the dark side when their costume inadvertently choked the young star.

"I had no idea the thing was attached to us," says Jackson. "I just thought it was a big piece of cloth that was draped over us and I could just throw it off and we'd be there."

"It's really fun," says actress Heather Graham. "They have fun categories, and it's very relaxed."

While the atmosphere is considerably relaxed compared to those of time-honored movie awards, not everybody in attendance is able to loosen up.

"I'm the person who never wins anything or is never nominated for anything, so it's a very nice surprise," says actress Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Behind every award, there is painstaking preparation. Kissing scenes, as Hugh Grant explains, require a great deal of training.

"In the case of Notting Hill, Roger Michele, who was the director, actually kissed me for quite a long time before I kissed Julia," says Grant. "I think it was fishy at the time, but apparently, that's just the way he works."

But Hugh and Julia didnÂ't receive the honor. The coveted "Golden Popcorn Award for Best Kiss" went to Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare In Love. Neither star was in attendance.

Other winners included ThereÂ's Something About Mary for both "best fight" and "best movie." And "best female performance" and "best villain" went respectively to Cameron Diaz and Matt Dillon for ThereÂ's Something About Mary.

Teen heartthrob James van Der Beek and his Dawson's Creek co-star, Katie Holmes, were both honored for "breakthrough performances."

"That's one of the perks of being in this business," says Holmes. "People who have more normal jobs, they do a great job, but nobody really goes up to them and says, 'hey, you know, you did a great job painting that house!' And so, it's pretty exciting to have people coming up and saying, 'I like that.'"

"Best male performanc" went to Jim Carrey for The Truman Show, and the "best on-screen duo" award went to Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker for Rush Hour.

But the MTV Movie Awards weren't all fun and games. There was some controversy. When the filmmakers behind There's Something About Mary accepted their "best movie" award, they made an off-color joke about school shootings and the audience was stunned. They'll be cutting that out of tonight's broadcast.