Show’s return fills fans with ‘Euphoria’
The MTV Movie & TV Awards returned to its live-show format Sunday night, hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, and it was euphoric.
The HBO teen drama “Euphoria” swept the awards show with four wins, including best show, fight, “Here for the Hookup” and performance in a show, with the latter going to the show’s star Zendaya.
“Thank you to all the fans who have shown so much love to ‘Euphoria,’ ” Zendaya said in a video. “The show means so much to us, and we really are so honored that it means so much to you.”
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” also got some love from the fans. The superhero sensation, which earned nearly $1.9 billion at the box office, clinched the awards for best movie and performance in a movie, which went to Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland.
It also was a big night for Jennifer Lopez, who was honored with the Generation Award, which celebrates actors whose diverse contributions in film and television have turned them into household names.
“As an actor, I’m not any of the (women) that I played, but there is a part of what is deeply true to me in each one of those characters,” Lopez said. “And since you cannot create truth unless you’ve really lived it, I have a different kind of list of thank-yous.”
“I want to thank the people who gave me joy and the ones who broke my heart,” said Lopez. “I want to thank disappointment and failure for teaching me to be strong, and my children for teaching me to love . ... I want to thank all the people who told me to my face – or when I wasn’t in the room – that I couldn’t do this. I really don’t think I could have done it without you.”
Diplo and Swae Lee gave an electric performance of “Tupelo Shuffle,” taken from director Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming “Elvis” biopic, and actor Jack Black received the Comic Genius honor for his sidesplitting body of work.
In all, 26 awards were handed out in gender-neutral categories during the two-hour show, which was immediately followed by Unscripted, which honors reality television shows.
Contributing: The Associated Press and Edward Segarra, USA TODAY
MTV Movie & TV awards winners
Winners in bold.
Best movie
● “Dune”
● “Scream”
● “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”
● “Spider-Man: No Way Home”
● “The Adam Project”
● “The Batman”
Best show
● “Euphoria”
● “Inventing Anna”
● “Loki”
● “Squid Game”
● “Ted Lasso”
● “Yellowstone”
Best performance in a movie
● Lady Gaga, “House of Gucci”
● Robert Pattinson, “The Batman”
● Sandra Bullock, “The Lost City”
● Timothée Chalamet, “Dune”
● Tom Holland, “Spider-Man: No Way Home”
Best performance in a show
● Amanda Seyfried, “The Dropout”
● Kelly Reilly, “Yellowstone”
● Lily James, “Pam & Tommy”
● Sydney Sweeney, “Euphoria”
● Zendaya, “Euphoria”
Best team h “Loki” (Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson)
● “Only Murders in the Building” (Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, Martin Short)
● “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire)
● “The Adam Project” (Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell)
● “The Lost City” (Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt)
Best song
● “Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” (Jennifer Hudson, “Respect”)
● “Just Look Up” (Ariana Grande & Kid Cudi, “Don’t Look Up”)
● “Little Star” (Dominic Fike, “Euphoria”)
● “On My Way (Marry Me)” (Jennifer Lopez, “Marry Me”)
● “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (Cast, “Encanto”)
Best docu-reality series
● “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation”
● “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta”
● “Selling Sunset”
● “Summer House”
● “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
Best competition series
● “American Idol”
● “Dancing With the Stars”
● “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
● “The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies”
● “The Masked Singer”
Best talk/topical show
● “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah”
● “The Drew Barrymore Show”
● “The Kelly Clarkson Show”
● “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”
● “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”
Best music documentary
● “Janet Jackson.”
● “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy”
● “Oasis Knebworth 1996”
● “Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)”
● The Beatles: Get Back”