MTV has announced the nominations for the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2023. The blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick leads the nominations for cinema with six categories. Spider-Man: No Way Home and the TV series Euphoria of HBO earned the top honors of 2022 for motion pictures and television, respectively.
The 2023 awards also include two new categories: “Best On-Screen Reality Team” and “Best Kicking Cast.”
28 actors in their first nomination including Anna Torv, Austin Butler, Bad Bunny, Bella Ramsey, Cara Delevingne, Courteney Cox, Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jennifer Coolidge, Justin Long, Keke Palmer and Madison Bailey.
Drew Barrymore will host the awards night of the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards which will air live on MTV April 7 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
Voting is open and you can cast your preference at vote.mtv.com until April 17th.
BEST FILM
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Nope
Scream VI
Smiley
Top Gun: Maverick
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A FILM
Austin Butler-Elvis
Florence Pugh – Don’t Worry Darling
KeKe Palmer – Nope
Michael B. Jordan – Creed III
Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
BEST HERO
Diego Luna – Andor
Jenna Ortega – Wednesday
Paul Rudd – Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
BEST VILLAIN
Elizabeth Olsen – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Harry Styles – Don’t Worry Darling
Jamie Campbell Bower – Stranger Things
M3GAN – M3GAN
The Bear – Cocainbear
BEST KISS
Anna Torv + Philip Prajoux – The Last of Us
Harry Styles + David Dawson – My Policeman
Madison Bailey + Rudy Pankow – Outer Banks
Riley Keough + Sam Claflin – Daisy Jones & The Six
Selena Gomez + Cara Delevingne – Only Murders in the Building
BEST COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Adam Sandler – Murder Mystery 2
Dylan O’Brien – Not Okay
Jennifer Coolidge – An explosive marriage
KeKe Palmer – Nope
Quinta Brunson–Abbott Elementary
BEST REVELATION
Bad Bunny – 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) vs. Everyone – John Wick 4
Escape from Narkina 5 – Andor
BEST SCARY PERFORMANCE
Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus
Jesse Tyler Ferguson – Cocainbear
Justin Long – Barbarian
Rachel Sennott – Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sosie Bacon – Smile
BEST DUO
Camila Mendes + Maya Hawke – Do Revenge
Jenna Ortega + Mano – Wednesday
Pedro Pascal + Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Simona Tabasco + Beatrice Grannò – The White Lotus
Tom Cruise + Miles Teller – Top Gun: Maverick
BEST CAST THAT ROCKS
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Outer Banks
Stranger Things
Teen Wolf: The Movie
BEST SONG
Demi Lovato – “Still Alive” (Scream VI)
Doja Cat – “Vegas” (Elvis)
Lady Gaga – “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
OneRepublic – “I Ain’t Worried” (Top Gun: Maverick)
Rihanna – “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Taylor Swift – “Carolina” (Swamp Girl)
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Halftime
Love, Lizzo
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
Sheryl
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie
Source: Comic Book