This Year’s MTV Movie & TV Award Nominations

This year we’ll be seeing a brand new MTV Movie (& TV) Awards. That’s fairly evident by the addition of TV to the award show’s name! Earlier this year they made the announcement that TV shows would be included in the award show moving forward and now we see the first batch of nominations from that form of media.

The award show released all of its nominations for the show that will be coming to us on May 7. It’ll be hosted by Adam Devine and will surely be a great one to watch. Let’s take a look at this year’s nominations…

MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Logan
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Beauty and the Beast
Get Out
The Edge of Seventeen

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Hugh Jackman – Logan
James McAvoy – Split
Emma Watson – Beauty and the Beast
Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen
Taraji P. Henson – Hidden Figures

SHOW OF THE YEAR
Atlanta
Pretty Little Liars
Stranger Things
Game of Thrones
Insecure
This Is Us

BEST ACTOR IN A SHOW
Donald Glover – Atlanta
Jeffrey Dean Morgan – The Walking Dead
Mandy Moore – This Is Us
Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things
Emilia Clarke – Game of Thrones
Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin

BEST KISS
Ashton Sanders & Jharrel Jerome – Moonlight
Taraji P. Henson & Terrence Howard – Empire
Zac Efron & Anna Kendrick – Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates
Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling – La La Land
Emma Watson & Dan Stevens – Beauty and the Beast

BEST VILLAIN
Jeffrey Dean Morgan – The Walking Dead
Wes Bentley – American Horror Story
Allison Williams – Get Out
Demogorgon – Stranger Things
Jared Leto – Suicide Squad

BEST HOST
RuPaul – RuPaul’s Drag Race
Samantha Bee – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Ellen DeGeneres – The Ellen DeGeneres Show
John Oliver – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Trevor Noah – The Daily Show

BEST DOCUMENTARY
13TH
This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
TIME: The Kalief Browder Story
I Am Not Your Negro
O.J.: Made in America

BEST REALITY COMPETITION
RuPaul’s Drag Race
The Bachelor
America’s Got Talent
MasterChef Junior
The Voice

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Adam Devine – Workaholics
Seth MacFarlane – Family Guy
Seth Rogen – Sausage Party
Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson – Broad City
Lil Rel Howery – Get Out
Will Arnett – The LEGO Batman Movie

BEST HERO
Felicity Jones – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Grant Gustin – The Flash
Stephen Amell – Arrow
Taraji P. Henson – Hidden Figures
Mike Colter – Luke Cage
Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things

TEARJERKER
Game of Thrones – Hodor’s (Kristian Nairn) Death
Moonlight – Paula (Naomie Harris) tells Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) that she loves him
This Is Us – Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Randall (Lonnie Chavis) at karate
Grey’s Anatomy – Meredith tells her children about Derek’s death (Ellen Pompeo)
Me Before You – Will (Sam Claflin) tells Louisa (Emilia Clarke) he can’t stay with her

NEXT GENERATION
Issa Rae
Riz Ahmed
Chrissy Metz
Daniel Kaluuya
Yara Shahidi

BEST DUO
Adam Levine & Blake Shelton – The Voice
Hugh Jackman & Dafne Keen – Logan
Josh Gad & Luke Evans – Beauty and the Beast
Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg – Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party
Daniel Kaluuya & Lil Rel Howery – Get Out
Brian Tyree Henry & Lakeith Stanfield – Atlanta

BEST AMERICAN STORY
Blackish
Moonlight
Fresh Off the Boat
Jane the Virgin
Transparent

BEST FIGHT AGAINST THE SYSTEM
Get Out
Luke Cage
Mr. Robot
Hidden Figures
Loving

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