"Dynamite" Night at MTV Awards

Sweet! Napoleon Dynamite had the skills to win big at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards.

The offbeat indie flick won three awards, including Best Movie, at the music networks' alternative to the Oscars, held Saturday at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium and hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

Napoleon Dynamite's star, Jon Heder, even slipped into his oft-imitated Naploeonic vernacular upon accepting the award for Breakthrough Male Performance. "Quiet...Gosh!" the actor pleaded, before he made a brief speech. Heder also won for Best Musical Performance.

Tying Napoleon with three Golden Popcorns was Mean Girls.

The Tina Fey-penned film earned accolades for Best Female Performance for star Lindsay Lohan, Breakthrough Female Performance for Rachel McAdams and Onscreen Team for its ensemble cast. It was a big night for McAdams, who personally took home three trophies--Breakthrough Female and Onscreen Team for Mean Girls and Best Kiss, which she shared with her Notebook costar Ryan Gosling.

In an Oscar rematch, Leonardo DiCaprio this time beat out Jamie Foxx for the top actor trophy. The Aviator star was a no-show, but accepted his Popcorn prize in a taped segment.

Presumably tipped off prior to the show that he had won, Dustin Hoffman was in the house to add the Best Comedic Performance award to his trophy case. Hoffman earned the prize for playing papa to Ben Stiller in Meet the Fockers. Hoffman elicited some of the biggest laughs of the night during his speech. He thanked MTV for his front-row seat ("the Academy never did that for me") and then suggestively touched himself in a tribute to Eminem.

Eminem himself, unsurprisingly, also managed to push the boundaries of good taste during his rendition of "Ass Like That," performed amid a crush of scantily clad, big-bosomed female puppets.

(MTV edited out a shot of Eminem's bare butt from last year's Movie Awards. Per tradition, Saturday's ceremony was taped and a trimmed-down version will air Thursday.)

The night's other big musical number belonged to the red-hot Mariah Carey, who offered up a soaring rendition of "We Belong Together."

Last week's censorship controversy over Nine Inch Nails' last-minute pullout (Trent Reznor pulled the plug after MTV balked at allowing him to use an image of President Bush as the backdrop to his performance) was unremarked upon at the event, save a fan's silent tribute to Reznor in the form of a NIN logo on top of a bus stop across the street from the venue.

The Foo Fighters filled in for Nine Inch Nails, performing "The Best of You" to close out the show.

Another highlight was a tribute to the classic 1980s teen-angst comedy The Breakfast Club. Yellowcard performed a rendition of Simple Minds' hit from the original, "Don't You (Forget About Me)," as cast members Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald reunited. (Emilio Estevez was MIA; Nelson, meanwhile, apparently became ill and called it an early night.)

Meanwhile, an anticipated red carpet showdown between presenter Nicole Kidman and Tom Crusie never materialized, as Cruise entered through a back entrance.

While Cruise lost out to Stiller in the Best Villain category (Cruise was up for his bad-guy turn in Collateral; Stiller, for Dodgeball), he didn't go home empty-handed. The War of the Worlds star received MTV's inaugural Generation Award, presented by new love Katie Holmes--a full generation or so younger than him.

Here's a complete rundown of the winners at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards:

Best Movie: Napoleon Dynamite
Best Male Performance: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator Best Female Performance: Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls
Best Comedic Performance: Dustin Hoffman, Meet the Fockers
Best Onscreen Team: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried, Mean Girls
Best Villain: Ben Stiller, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Breakthough Performance, Male: Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite Breakthough Performance, Female: Rachel McAdams, Mean Girls
Best Action Sequence: Destruction of Los Angeles, The Day After Tomorrow
Best Fight: Daryl Hannah vs. Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 2
Best Kiss: Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, The Notebook
Best Musical Performance: Jon Heder, Napoleon Dynamite
Best Frightened Performance: Dakota Fanning, Hide and Seek Best Videogame Based on a Movie: Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay