They’re again! The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards are returning this spring to honor the very best in scripted and unscripted media.
The awards present will happen on the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 7. For the sixth 12 months in a row, the ceremony will honor each films and tv. In the previous, the occasion solely honored movies however expanded in 2017 to embody TV programming.
For the previous two years, there have been duel cohosts to emcee the night time. One host annouces the scripted accolades whereas one other handles the unscripted portion. Last 12 months, Vanessa Hudgens and Tayshia Adams took activates the mic, dealing with the scripted and unscripted parts, respectively. A number for this 12 months has been introduced but.
Variety revealed in February 2023 that the particular occasion was going to mix the 2 ceremonies and never have them happen in separate time blocks.
The present will air on MTV internationally and be obtainable to watch in additional than 170 nations. Hosts, nominations, performers, presenters and extra particulars can be introduced on a date nearer to the ceremony.
Last 12 months’s awards featured gender-neutral nominations and launched new classes together with Best Song, Best Reality Return, Best Music Documentary, Best Reality Romance and Best Reality Star. Winners from the earlier ceremony included Spider-Man: No Way Home, Euphoria, Scream, Loki and Selling Sunset.
Prior to the forged of the Netflix actuality collection successful massive, Chrishell Stause, G Flip and Jason Oppenheim have been seen hugging whereas contained in the venue. The awards present’s official social media web page then shared a clip of the trio’s embrace.
“My #SellingSunset heart just isn’t ready for #MTVAwards moments like this 🧐,” MTV captioned a video of the trio forward of the unscripted portion of the night time. In the clip, Stause was seen mouthing, “What is happening?” on the digicam.
The ceremony additionally offers out specialised honors, together with the Comedic Genius Award, the MTV Generation Award and MTV Reality Royalty Lifetime Achievement Award. During the 2022 broadcast, Jack Black was awarded the trophy for his iconic comedic profession whereas Jennifer Lopez was bestowed the Generation Award. Bethenny Frankel took residence the win for actuality Lifetime Achievement within the second half.
In March 2023, it was introduced that Drew Barrymore can be internet hosting this 12 months’s ceremony. However, the present hit a snag two months later when the Never Been Kissed star revealed she was pulling out of her emcee duties in solidarity with the hanging Writers Guild members.
“I have listened to the writers, and in order to truly respect them, I will pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live in solidarity with the strike,” Barrymore instructed Variety in a May 2023 assertion. “Everything we celebrate and honor about movies and television is born out of their creation. And until a solution is reached, I am choosing to wait but I’ll be watching from home and hope you will join me. I thank MTV, who has truly been some of the best partners I have ever worked with. And I can’t wait to be a part of this next year, when I can truly celebrate everything that MTV has created, which is a show that allows fans to choose who the awards go to and is truly inclusive.”
Paramount Global’s president of music, Bruce Gillmer, instructed the outlet that whereas the awards present is now set to be “hostless” — and presenters will possible now skip the occasion in help of the strike — MTV nonetheless plans on “delivering for the fans.”
“The exclusive sneak peeks of the big films that are to be released,” he shared with Variety on the time. “We still have a live performance. We still have the award sequences, although those are the elements that are very unpredictable — because clearly, we don’t know which talent will feel comfortable. A lot of them won’t.”
Us Weekly later confirmed that tright here would not be a crimson carpet or expertise interviews prior to the ceremony.
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