Coen brothers with its head turned around as it looks back over its hindquarters. Up to 2003, Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing, due to guild rules that disallowed multiple director credits to prevent dilution of the position's significance. The only exception to this rule is if the co-directors are an "established duo". Now that they were able to share the director credit the Coen brothers have become only the third duo to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The first two pairs to achieve this were Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (who won for
2006 MTV Movie Awards produced the awards, and Joel Gallen was the executive-producer and director for the 12th consecutive year. This is also the second MTV Movie Awards show to have a host win an award. The first show was in 2004 with Lindsay Lohan winning an award. The host for the MTV Movie Awards in 2006 was Jessica Alba. Christina Aguilera performed, for the very first time, her lead single of her latest release Back to Basics, "Ain't No Other Man". Pre-recorded parodies include "The Da Vinci Code", "", and "King Kong". 2006 MTV Movie Awards The 2006 MTV Movie Awards were held