MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance

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.

MTV Movie & TV Award for Most Frightened Performance
Awarded for	Most Frightened Performance
Country	United States
Presented by	MTV
First award	June 4, 2005
Currently held by	Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus (2023)
Most nominations	Jessica Chastain (2) Dakota Fanning (2) Victoria Pedretti (2)
Website	MTV.com

Winners and nominees

Inaugural recipient Dakota Fanning

Jennifer Lopez won the award in 2015

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