The website thepetitionsite.com has begun collecting signatures for a petition to include The Hunger Games heroine Katniss Everdeen in the list of nominees for the MTV Movie Awards.

The list of candidates for the award was announced on March 6. The following characters are nominated for Best Hero: Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man 3), Clark Kent (Henry Cavill, Man of Steel), Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) ), Thor (Chris Hemsworth, Thor: The Dark World) and John Cale (Channing Tatum, White House Down).

The creators of the petition on thepetitionsite.com emphasize that there is not a single heroine on this list. In their opinion, strong and vibrant female characters do not appear often enough on film and television screens. As part of the fight against such inequality, they propose to nominate Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”) for the award.

The initiators of the action intend to collect 15 thousand signatures by March 14. At the time of writing, about 13.5 thousand people left their names under the petition.

At the same time, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was nominated for seven MTV awards in 2014. In particular, it is presented in the main category “Film of the Year” along with the films “American Hustle” (also featuring Jennifer Lawrence), “12 Years a Slave”, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” and “The Wolf of Wall Street”. The films “American Hustle” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” are the leaders in the number of nominations - each of them claims eight awards. The full list of nominations can be found here .

The next MTV Movie Awards ceremony will take place on April 13, 2014 in Los Angeles. Showman Conan O'Brien was appointed host of the event.

The heroine of “The Hunger Games” demanded to be nominated for an MTV award