The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will be presented in a pre-recorded ceremony that will air Sunday night.
The show is being held amid the ongoing writers’ strike, which led to host Drew Barrymore quitting in a show of support for the striking scribes. (She will, however, host the 2024 edition of the Movie & TV Awards.) While MTV originally planned to continue with a live audience, the channel announced plans on Friday to switch to a pre-recorded event.
The news came shortly after the Writers Guild of America said it planned to hold a picket outside Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar, where the awards would take place as a live event. Friday night has the WGA canceled his intention to demonstrate.
Barrymore eventually appeared in the pre-recorded opening segment, appearing in recent films and TV series The White Lotus And Cocaine Bear as her character of never been kissed Josie Geller, who finally gets her kiss from the aforementioned bear.
That was followed by the night’s first win, Pedro Pascal, who took the Best Hero award for his role in The last of us, a preview of the upcoming movie The little Mermaid and a flashback to the 2001 “Lady Marmalade” performance.
On the way to the ceremony, Netflix’s Stranger things leads with seven nominations, followed by Top gun: Maverick and HBOs The last of us with six nominations each.
Family Vacation Jersey Shore, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills And Vanderpump Rules all tied in the unscripted categories with two nominations each.
This year’s ceremony also has two new categories: Best On-Screen Reality Team and Best Cast. The winners are voted on by fans.
The list of nominees below will be updated when the winners are announced. Refresh for the latter.
Best Movie
Avatar: The way of the water
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
No
Scream VI
Smile
Top gun: Maverick
Best performance
Stranger things
The last of us
The White Lotus
Wednesday
wolf pack
Yellowstone
Yellow jackets
Best Performance in a Motion Picture
Austin Butler Elvis
Florence Pug — Don’t worry honey
Keke Palmer — No
Michael B. Jordan — Creed III
Tom Cruise – Top gun: Maverick
Best Performance in a Show
Aubrey Plaza — The White Lotus
Christina Ricci — Yellow jackets
Jenna Ortega — Wednesday
Riley Keough – Daisy Jones and the Six
Sadie Sink — Stranger things
Selena Gomez — Only kills in the building
Dear hero
Diego Luna — Andor
Jenna Ortega — Wednesday
Paul Rudd — Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Pedro Pascal — The last of us (WINNER)
Tom Cruise – Top gun: Maverick
Dear villain
Elizabeth Olsen — Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness
Harry Styles- Don’t worry honey
Jamie Campbell Bower- Stranger things
M3GAN – M3GAN
The bear – Cocaine Bear
Dear kiss
Anna Torv + Philip Prajoux — The last of us
Harry Styles + David Dawson — My police officer
Madison Bailey + Rudy Pankow — Outdoor benches
Riley Keough + Sam Claflin — Daisy Jones and the Six
Selena Gomez + Cara Delevingne — Only kills in the building
Best Comedy Performance
Adam Sandler- Murder mystery 2
Dylan O’Brien – Not in order
Jennifer Coolidge- Shotgun marriage
Keke Palmer — No
Quinta Brunson — Abbot Elementary School
Groundbreaking performance
bad rabbit — Bullet train
Bella Ramsey — The last of us
Emma D’Arcy — House of the Dragon
joseph quinn — Stranger things
Rachel Sennott — Bodies Bodies Bodies
Best fight
Brad Pitt (Ladybug) vs. Bad Bunny (The Wolf) — Bullet train
Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers) vs. Ghostface — Scream VI
Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna) vs Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) — Stranger things
Keanu Reeves (John Wick) to everyone — John Wick 4
Escape from Narkina 5 — Andor
Most Scared Performance
Jennifer Coolidge- The White Lotus
Jesse Tyler Ferguson — Cocaine Bear
Justin Long — Barbarian
Rachel Sennott — Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sosie Bacon — Smile
Best duet
Camila Mendes + Maya Hawke — Revenge
Jenna Ortega + Thing — Wednesday
Pedro Pascal + Bella Ramsey — The last of us
Simona Tabasco + Beatrice Granno — The White Lotus
Tom Cruise + Miles Counter — Top gun: Maverick
Best Kick-Ass Cast
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Outdoor benches
Stranger things
Teen Wolf: The Movie
Best song
Demi Lovato — “Still Alive” (Scream VI)
Doja Kat — “Vegas” (Elvis)
Lady Gaga — “Hold My Hand” (Top gun: Maverick)
OneRepublic — “I’m not worried” (Top gun: Maverick)
Rihanna — “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Taylor Swift — “Carolina” (Where the crawfish sing)
Best Docu-Reality Series
Family vacation in Jersey Shore
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Family Reunion: Love & Hip Hop Edition
The Kardashians
Vanderpump Rules
Best Competition Series
All Star Shore
Big Brother
RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars
The Challenge: USA
The traitors
Dear host
Drew Barrymore- The Drew Barrymore Show
Joel Madden — Ink master
Nick Cannon — The masked singer
RuPaul — RuPaul’s Drag Race
Kelly Clarkson – The Kelly Clarkson Show
Dear Reality Onscreen Team
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino, Pauly D (MVP) — Family vacation in Jersey Shore
Tori Deal and Devin Walker — The challenge: ride or die
RuPaul Charles and Michelle Visage — RuPaul’s Drag Race
Ariana Madix, Katie Maloney, Scheana Shay, LaLa Kent — Vanderpump Rules
Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke — The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Best Music Documentary
Peace
Love, Lizzo
Selena Gomez: My mind and me
Sheryl
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie
Best musical moment
Daisy Jones and the Six: “Look at us now (honeycomb)”
Don’t worry honey: Jack’s Tap Dance
Elvis: “Problem”
Ginny and Georgia: “I Will Survive” (Bachelorette Party)
M3GAN: “titanium”
Matilda the musical: “Disgusting children”
Purple hearts: “Come home”
RRR: “Naatu Naatu”
She-Hulk: lawyer: “Body”
SNL: “Big Boys”
Stranger things: “Run Up That Hill”
The last of us: “Long Long Time” (Bill & Frank play piano)
The school of good and evil: “You should see me in a crown”
The summer I became beautiful: “This Love (Taylor’s Version)”
Wednesday: “Good Goe Muck”
Young royals: “Simon’s Song”
