MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance
This is a following list for the MTV Movie 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. 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 and Jessica Chastain hold the distinction of the only people to hold more than one nomination in the category, with Fanning winning the inaugural award in 2005. The award returned in 2018 under the title Best Frightened Performance.
Winners and nominees
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2010 | Amanda Seyfried – Jennifer's Body | Sharlto Copley – District 9 Jesse Eisenberg – Zombieland Katie Featherston – Paranormal Activity Alison Lohman – Drag Me to Hell | |
| 2011 | Ellen Page – Inception | Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism Minka Kelly – The Roommate Ryan Reynolds – Buried Jessica Szohr – Piranha 3D | |
| 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 – ' | |
| 2014 | Brad Pitt – World War Z | Ethan Hawke – The Purge Jessica Chastain – Mama Rose Byrne – ' Vera Farmiga – The Conjuring | |
| 2015 | Jennifer Lopez – The Boy Next Door | Annabelle Wallis – Annabelle Dylan O'Brien – The Maze Runner Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl Zach Gilford – ' | |
| 2018 | Noah Schnapp – Stranger Things | Talitha Bateman – ' Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place Sophia Lillis – It Cristin Milioti – Black Mirror | |
| 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 |