Sandra Bullock was kissing and telling at the MTV Movie Awards.

Ms Bullock, wearing a glittery black dress, received a standing ovation as she accepted the MTV Generation Award in her first live TV appearance since she split with cheating husband Jesse James earlier this year.

The 45-year-old actress used her acceptance speech to clear up tabloid rumours - "number one, I'm not dead" - and kiss Scarlett Johansson.

"No matter what you might have seen or heard or read lately, I love what I do," vowed Ms Bullock, "and I'm not going anywhere."

Ms Bullock was presented with the show's highest honour by her All About Steve co-star Bradley Cooper, The Proposal co-star Betty White and Johansson, the wife of her absentee Proposal leading man Ryan Reynolds. When it came to the main awards at the often-bleeped ceremony at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, The Twilight Saga eclipsed the competition for the second year.

New Moon sucked up trophies for best movie, kiss, female performance for Kristen Stewart and male performance and global superstar for Robert Pattinson.

Other winners selected by online votes included Obsessed co-stars Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter for best fight, Ninja Assassin star Rain for "biggest badass star", The Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis for comedy performance and Up In The Air co-star Anna Kendrick for breakout star.

Tom Cruise launched the show as his Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman, a profanity-spewing Hollywood producer. In the opening section, Les Grossman used Michael Cera as a human bookend and berated Karate Kid star Jaden Smith as his father Will Smith looked on. He later appeared on stage and danced alongside Jennifer Lopez.

Christina Aguilera, who performed a medley of tunes from her new album, was also muffled as she sang the saucy Woohoo.

Les Grossman wasn't the only character whose language was frequently censored. The cast of Scott Pilgrim vs The World were barely audible as they presented an emotional Ken Jeong of The Hangover with an award.

A comically angry Mark Wahlberg, however, was able to slip several bad words past censors during the presentation of the best villain trophy to Tom Felton of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Mr Wahlberg jokingly hung above the stage with Will Ferrell, spoofing last year's bizarre moment when Sacha Baron Cohen landed on the lap of an offended Eminem.

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