Get Out leads expanded, gender-free MTV Movie and TV Awards
(Reuters) Horror comedy Get Out, the hit movie with a racial twist, led nominations on Thursday for the MTV Movie and TV Awards in a list that dispenses with gender classifications and pits film, television and streaming shows against each other.
Get Out, written and directed by comedian Jordan Peele, earned six nominations including for movie of the year, best actor for star Daniel Kaluuya, best villain and a new category called “best fight against the system.”
Previously known as the MTV Movie Awards, the youth-orientated network widened the categories of its annual show to include television for the first time. This year’s show will air live from Los Angeles on May 7 and will be hosted by Adam DeVine of the Pitch Perfect movies and Comedy Central’s Workaholics series.
“We’re living in a golden age of content, and great storytelling and characters resonate regardless of whether you’re watching it in a theater or on TV,” Chris McCarthy, president of MTV, said in a statement.
MTV, known for its irreverent awards shows, also replaced its former best actor and actress categories with the all-embracing, gender-neutral “best actor in a movie” and “best actor in a show.”
The changes produced a list of nominations on Thursday that included Game of
At 6-foot-5 Snoop Dog is easy to spot at Augusta National, even though most of the thousands of spectators are unlikely to have any of his songs on their playlists.
He said he respects golf, but said the game would be much improved if it reached out to minorities in U.S. cities that have little access to the game.
“If golf was pushed and promoted in the inner cities, there would be more Tiger Woods,” he said.
“This sport can be mastered by anyone. And if it was taught and presented to them, there would be a lot of guys in this Masters that look like me,” he said.
He cited Venus and Serena Williams, two tennis champions who learned on the courts of crime-ridden Compton, California, as an example of the transformational impact outreach to minorities can have on a sport.
“No one was pushing tennis in the hood until the Williams family made it,” he said. “And now look at how Thrones star Emilia Clarke competing for best actor in a show against Donald Glover of Atlanta and Mandy Moore from This is Us.
The fan favorite best kiss category included nods for the gay teen embrace between Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome in the Oscar-winning movie Moonlight, and for Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard from TV hip-hop industry drama Empire.
Other key nominations included movie Beauty and the Beast and Netflix sci-fi horror show Stranger Things, with four nods each. Scoring three nominations each were TV shows Atlanta, Game of Thrones and This is Us, along with movies Hidden Figures, Logan and Moonlight.
The MTV awards show features the stars of blockbuster productions and has established itself as a laid-back antidote to Hollywood’s awards season, which tends to honor more serious fare. Winners are chosen by fans voting online.
New categories this year include best American story, for a TV show or movie that showcases America at its “open and diverse” best. MTV said “best fight against the system” (formerly best fight) will recognize the TV show or movie whose characters exemplify a fight “against a system that tries to keep them down.” many young, black woman tennis players around the world are inspired by them.”
The “Gin and Juice” singer was all smiles as he walked the a course near Augusta National on a rainy day this week flanked by a handful of reporters, a team from event sponsor Tanqueray Gin, and a burly associate who held an umbrella for him.
After eventually sinking a short putt after many tries – Snoop is not a gifted golfer – he danced in triumph and demanded a worthy challenger. “Tell Tiger to come see me!” he said to laughs. Seema Sadekar, the former golf pro who designs stylish clothes for women to wear on the course, said Snoop Dogg’s presence at the Masters represents a movement in the sport toward inclusion.
“To have Snoop Dogg here at the Masters makes people feel like they belong,” she said. “It makes the game more welcoming.”