 | The MTV Movie Awards stage
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The MTV Movie Awards is not the most high-profile or high-brow award show in town, but—mercifully, for the comfort and attention span of the guests in attendance—it ranks as one of the shortest and least stuffy. Guests streamed into the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Studios on Sunday evening for the two-hour program, televised live on the East Coast with a three-hour delay locally, for which the dress code was more bought-it-off-the-rack than army-of-stylists. (Kristen Stewart, star of the night's big winner, Twilight, wore sneakers with her dress—but still managed to bobble the award before it clattered to the ground during her acceptance speech.)
The set at the Gibson, which is managed by concert production and marketing giant Live Nation, was a video-rich collection of multitiered elements, including a glowing main stage and an elevated platform with a podium for awards presentations and speeches. Illuminated panels in the shape of celluloid film pieces dominated the design, which was accented with LED tubing in bright colors.
The program had a vaguely '80s and early '90s theme, with host Andy Samberg beginning the program with a cadre of backup dancers reminiscent of the neon-clad Fly Girls troupe from the '90s sketch comedy show In Living Color.
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