MTV Movie & TV Award Nominees!
Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 6:32PM Chris here. You may have missed awhile back but the MTV Movie Awards have added television into its ceremony. While that news may sound like a "Golden Globes for the Instagram set" proposition, the results are much more muddied.
For starters, outside of the top categories movies and television are nominated alongside each other - which makes for some headspining lineups like "Tearjerker". As if the current murky waters of what defines cinema and television weren't frustrating enough already for those of us that follow awards, this awards show has just thrown caution to the wind. They've always fallen on the populist and occasionally silly side but this is essentially bonkers...
To make it worse, male and female performers now compete against eachother for one category in either film or TV - why would they want less stars on their broadcast?? These changes don't just hurt the ceremony's legitimacy, they kill the fun.
On the positive side, there are some stellar nominations in the lineup. Word of mouth juggernaut Get Out has the most nominations with 6 including an inspired choice for Best Villain. Oscar winner Moonlight didn't factor in Movie of the Year, but did land 4 nominations along with Beauty and the Beast and Stranger Things. Best surprise: love for Edge of Seventeen and the stellar Hailee Steinfeld.
The MTV Movie & TV Awards are May 7th. The full list of nominees...
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Beauty and the Beast
Get Out
Logan
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Edge of Seventeen
BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Emma Watson – Beauty and the Beast
Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen
Hugh Jackman – Logan
James McAvoy – Split
Taraji P. Henson – Hidden Figures
SHOW OF THE YEAR
Atlanta
Game of Thrones
Insecure
Pretty Little Liars
Stranger Things
This Is Us
BEST ACTOR IN A SHOW
Donald Glover – Atlanta
Emilia Clarke – Game of Thrones
Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin
Jeffrey Dean Morgan – The Walking Dead
Mandy Moore – This Is Us
Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things
BEST KISS
Ashton Sanders & Jharrel Jerome – Moonlight
Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling – La La Land
Emma Watson & Dan Stevens – Beauty and the Beast
Taraji P. Henson & Terrence Howard – Empire
Zac Efron & Anna Kendrick – Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates
BEST VILLAIN
Allison Williams – Get Out
Demogorgon – Stranger Things
Jared Leto – Suicide Squad
Jeffrey Dean Morgan – The Walking Dead
Wes Bentley – American Horror Story
BEST HOST
Ellen DeGeneres – The Ellen DeGeneres Show
John Oliver – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
RuPaul – RuPaul’s Drag Race
Samantha Bee – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Trevor Noah – The Daily Show
BEST DOCUMENTARY
13TH
I Am Not Your Negro
O.J.: Made in America
This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
TIME: The Kalief Browder Story
BEST REALITY COMPETITION
America’s Got Talent
MasterChef Junior
RuPaul’s Drag Race
The Bachelor
The Voice
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Adam Devine – Workaholics
Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson – Broad City
Lil Rel Howery – Get Out
Seth MacFarlane – Family Guy
Seth Rogen – Sausage Party
Will Arnett – The LEGO Batman Movie
BEST HERO
Felicity Jones – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Grant Gustin – The Flash
Mike Colter – Luke Cage
Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things
Stephen Amell – Arrow
Taraji P. Henson – Hidden Figures
TEARJERKER
Game of Thrones
Grey’s Anatomy
Me Before You
Moonlight
This Is Us
NEXT GENERATION
Chrissy Metz
Daniel Kaluuya
Issa Rae
Riz Ahmed
Yara Shahidi
BEST DUO
Adam Levine & Blake Shelton – The Voice
Daniel Kaluuya & Lil Rel Howery – Get Out
Brian Tyree Henry & Lakeith Stanfield – Atlanta
Hugh Jackman & Dafne Keen – Logan
Josh Gad & Luke Evans – Beauty and the Beast
Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg – Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party
BEST AMERICAN STORY
Blackish
Fresh Off the Boat
Jane the Virgin
Moonlight
Transparent
BEST FIGHT AGAINST THE SYSTEM
Get Out
Hidden Figures
Loving
Luke Cage
Mr. Robot
Reader Comments (16)
Bonkers, indeed. It's like they didn't even care if their nominations made sense.
And, although there's been some surprisingly well-reviewed movies that came out early this year, I have an issue with 90% of the nominations coming from movies released in the last 3 months. This recency effect thing is even worse than the Oscars!
Like what is the time frame?!!
yeah - what is the nominating period? December - April releases?
Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson – Broad City YESSS!!!
Best American Story and Best Fight Against the System categories made me laugh (and blush.)
Re: their timeline - to my knowledge, they have always been Summer - Spring of the following year. Think school year schedules, though that may look confusing considering the studios have made summer movie season basically a year-round thing now...
I think we're one step away from MTV deciding to announce that their awards show is now the MTV Audio-Visual Medium Awards. So, movies, video games and TV all at one award show. That'd be a trip.
Allison Williams getting nominated for Best Villain is a spoiler, MTV!
*note* Moonlight wouldn't be the first male-male kiss winner... the hilarious and extremely underrated "Talladega Nights: the ballad of Ricky Bobby" won, for the Will Ferrell - Sacha Baron Cohen kiss.
Yeah, Adam McKay was sharp as a razor way before "The Big Short", he just opted to be more goofy in the satire.
Also Brokeback Mountain: best kiss and best male performance for Jake.
Thanks for spoiling "Get Out", I guess.
I used to love the MTV movie awards. This hybrid approach is terrible.
Moonlight and Hidden Figures should have been surefire Best Movie nominees.
But on the other hand, they ditched gender acting categories
A moment of pause to reflect On the year Lisa Kudrow was host and gave out the award for Best Pause.
I've really grown I'd dispise this award show. It used to be so fun with best dight, action sequence, and acting categories. At least they still have best villain, but their choices are usually like REALLY?!?
Also "best fight against the system?!?" What a waste!
"But on the other hand, they ditched gender acting categories". I'm not sure ditching gender categories for awards is a good thing. Men get more and better roles on average.
These awards are so stupid
Lol. What if Isabelle Huppert was nominated?