From its inception, the MTV Movie Awards sounded like a strange hybrid.

Honoring long-form movies on the music video channel? This sounded like a one-time special doomed to tank. Yet at 9 p. m. Sunday, the 2011 edition marks the honors’ 20th annual live show.

Scheduled performers include Lupe Fiasco and Trey Songz. Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Steve Carell, Josh Duhamel, Cameron Diaz, Jesse Eisenberg, Nicki Minaj and Leighton Meester are among the presenters.

Jason Sudeikis of “Saturday Night Live” hosts. Though a veteran improv performer, he initially says he’s jittery about hosting a live show with a potential audience of 1.2 billion. Then he reflects for a moment and realizes this isn’t officially his first time.

“Why am I so nervous?” he says. “I have already done this.”

The MTV Movie Awards feature some standard categories — best movie, best performances — but it also has some that are just so MTV: best kiss, best line from a movie, best jaw-dropping moment, biggest bada–star and best scaredas-s— performance.

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“I should exercise my right to vote,” Sudeikis says. “I will do that. I hadn’t thought about that, but I will now. It would be really funny if ‘Black Swan’ or ‘Social Network’ won the MTV awards — if they awarded such a movie. Also being embraced by the MTV generation, that would be kind of cool to see if for no other reason let’s not assume all teenagers don’t watch [these films].”

Among the fun categories is one for best villain, for which Tom Felton, the nasty Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies, is a contender. Felton says he isn’t positive what qualities make for a perfectly evil villain.

“I have had to spend time with Alan Rickman and Ralph Fiennes, I learn from them definitely,” he says of the actors playing Snape, an apparently heartless teacher, and Voldemort, the essence of evil.

As Malfoy, Felton sports an imperious sneer, and he recalls how he developed it.

“My grandpa chaperoned me to the very first film, and he taught me how to look into a mirror and give a good sneer,” he says.

Felton is incredibly excited to be nominated.

“I got an e-mail, and I originally thought they were joking,” he says. “To get back-to-back nominations — I was flabbergasted to find my name with the amazing talent in the category. I am blown away by the fans’ dedication.”

Felton plans to attend. “Try and stop me,” he says. “It would be criminal of me to not make it.”

At this writing, Sudeikis was working on “SNL” and had not yet figured out what characters he might do at the awards.

“You never know what will show up,” he says. “Oh, please, something will show up.

“Hoping someone just plants something. Maybe we’ll find out Bieber has a toupee, or that he has to shave four times a day, his beard is that fierce.”

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