The MTV Movie & TV Awards is taking one other break. Variety has confirmed that the occasion, which might have usually taken place round this time of 12 months, will as a substitute sit 2024 out — with an eye fixed towards returning subsequent 12 months, maybe in a special, “reimagined” format.
It’s been a bumpy decade for the MTV Movie & TV Awards, which first started in 1992 (because the MTV Movie Awards). Last’s 12 months’s occasion was compelled to pivot to a pre-taped clip present in mild of the Hollywood writers’ strike, as host Drew Barrymore bowed out and the WGA introduced plans to picket the ceremony.
Meanwhile, in 2020, the MTV Movie & TV Awards additionally didn’t happen, due partially to the COVID-19 pandemic, but additionally as a result of the community had deliberate to maneuver the franchise (lengthy a spring/early summer season staple) to December. Ultimately, as a substitute of an awards present, MTV ran a “MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time” particular, hosted by Vanessa Hudgens.
The awards franchise was in a position to pull off occasions in 2021 and 2022. The present returned with two ceremonies in 2021: the MTV Movie & TV Awards on one evening (hosted by Leslie Jones) and the MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted (hosted by Nikki Glaser) on the subsequent. In 2022, the ceremony was additionally cut up right into a scripted occasion (hosted by Hudgens) and one for the unscripted (hosted by Tayshia Adams). The plan was to as soon as once more maintain only one MTV Movie & TV Awards in 2023, till the transfer to pre-tape.
For most of its existence, the telecast was generally known as the MTV Movie Awards, making the most of the spring kickoff of the summer season field workplace season. In 2017, the title was modified to the “MTV Movie & TV Awards” and included tv sequence for the primary time. Also that 12 months, the community went gender-neutral, embracing a choice to merge female and male performers into singular classes. Later, film and TV contenders have been merged in most of the classes as nicely.
In 2018, MTV moved the present to June, with a purpose to capitalize on Emmy For Your Consideration marketing campaign season on the TV facet; in more moderen years, the telecast shifted again to May.
There’s no official phrase on why the MTV Movie & TV Awards is taking this 12 months off, however clearly the information comes because the destiny of mum or dad Paramount Global is presently in limbo.
Last 12 months’s winners on the abbreviated particular included “Scream VI” for finest film; “The Last of Us” as finest present; Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick” for finest efficiency in a film; Jenna Ortega in ”Wednesday” for finest efficiency in a present; Adam Sandler in “Murder Mystery 2” for finest comedic efficiency; Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us” for finest hero; Elizabeth Olsen in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” for finest villain; Madison Bailey & Rudy Pankow in “Outer Banks” for finest kiss; Jennifer Coolidge (who additionally acquired a “comedic genius award”) in “The White Lotus” for many frightened efficiency; Gale Weathers vs. Ghostface in “Scream VI” for finest combat; Joseph Quinn in “Stranger Things” for finest breakthrough efficiency; Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey in “The Last Of Us” for finest duo; and “Stranger Things” for finest kick-ass solid.
On the unscripted facet, winners included “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me” for finest music documentary; “The Kardashians” for finest docu-reality present; “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” for finest competitors sequence; Ariana Madix, Katie Maloney, Scheana Shay and LaLa Kent of “Vanderpump Rules” for finest actuality on-screen crew; and Drew Barrymore of “The Drew Barrymore Show” for finest host.