Date: 4th June 2007

Borat star triumphs at MTV awards


Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was the star of the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, taking home two gongs.

Cohen scooped Best Comedic Performance for Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, as well as Best Kiss for his lip action with Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby.

British actor Gerard Butler won an award for Best Fight for his clash with The Uber Immortal (Robert Maillet) in 300.

Other stars rewarded with gongs at the Gibson Amphitheatre ceremony in California included Johnny Depp who won the Best Performance award for his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which also won Best Movie.

Source: Press Release