Rain and Lee Byeon-heon Potential Nominees for MTV Movie Awards

Rain and Lee Byung-hun have been named as preliminary nominees for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards and are now waiting for viewers' votes.

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World-class music entertainment channel MTV released a statement on March 31 that the two entertainers made the list of preliminary nominated candidates for the 19th annual MTV Movie Awards, which will be held on June 6 in Los Angeles, California. The preliminary vote, which aims to single out nominees for each category, will be conducted online on the homepage of the MTV awards (www.movieawards.mtv.com). Viewers can submit their choices for nominees until April 9.

The host uncapped the regional limitation for voting for the first time to collect votes from anyone in any country, so viewers in Korea also can cast a vote from this year.

Rain and Lee Byung-hun, who advanced to Hollywood, have been included in the list for their movies, "Ninja Assassin" and "G.I. Joe", respectively.

Rain is on the list of candidates for nominees of "Best Ass Kicking Star" and competes with 21 other stars. Lee Byung-hun is also on the list of candidates for nominees of "Best Fight" and competes with 17 other stars in the category.

By conducting this preliminary vote, the number of candidates will be whittled down and the final winner will be decided depending on the results of the official voting conducted from April 11 until June 5.

MTV spokesperson said, "The candidates will be decided only by viewers' voting without the input of additional judges on a panel, so the result will be the criterion used to evaluate preliminary nominees' popularity".

The 2010 MTV Movie Awards has created unique awards such as "Best Kiss", "Best Villain", and "Best Fight" and awards in a total of 13 categories.