The MTV Movie and TV Awards crowned their 2023 winners Sunday night without their intended host, Drew Barrymore, who ironically took home Best Host for “The Drew Barrymore Show” and I accept it live from your bathroom.
Jennifer Coolidge was delighted to receive the Comedy Genius Award. “It’s even more special because I was in The Groundlings with Melissa McCarthy and Will Ferrell, so now I get to be in the club with them, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kevin Hart and Jack Black,” she said in a clip. “OMG what a fun night!”
Due to the ongoing WGA strike, the show took on a different format from previous years and became largely a clip show with winners accepting remotely. The move decision came after host Barrymore stepped down in solidarity with the WGA, and MTV scrapped plans for red-carpet interviews and an in-person ceremony to avoid friction with picketers (and a lack of talent willing to show above).
One thing most of the winners had in common: expressing solidarity with the writers on their shows and movies.
Find out who took home the golden popcorn below!
BEST FILM
“Avatar: The Path of Water”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Elvis”
“No”
“Scream VI” **WINNER**
“Smile”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
BEST SHOW
“Strange things”
“The Last of Us” **WINNER**
“The White Lotus”
“Wednesday”
“Pack of wolves”
“yellow stone”
“Yellow Jackets”
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MOVIE
Austin Butler: “Elvis”
Florence Pugh: “Don’t worry honey”
KeKe Palmer: “No.”
Michael B. Jordan: “Creed III”
Tom Cruise: “Top Gun: Maverick” **WINNER**
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHOW
Aubrey Plaza: “The White Lotus”
Christina Ricci: “Yellow Jackets”
Jenna Ortega: “Wednesday” **WINNER**
Riley Keough: “Daisy Jones and the Six”
Sadie Sink: “Stranger Things”
Selena Gomez: “Only murders in the building”
BEST HERO
Diego Luna: “Andor”
Jenna Ortega: “Wednesday”
Paul Rudd: “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania”
Pedro Pascal: “The Last of Us” **WINNER**
Tom Cruise: “Top Gun: Maverick”
BEST VILLAIN
Elizabeth Olsen: “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” **WINNER**
Harry Styles: “Don’t worry honey”
Jamie Campbell Bower: “Stranger Things”
M3GAN: “M3GAN”
The Bear: “Cocaine Bear”
BEST KISS (presented by Cheetos®)
Anna Torv and Philip Prajoux: “The Last of Us”
Harry Styles and David Dawson: “My Police”
Madison Bailey and Rudy Pankow: “Outer Banks” **WINNER**
Riley Keough and Sam Claflin: “Daisy Jones and the Six”
Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne: “Only murders in the building”
BEST COMED PERFORMANCE
Adam Sandler: “Murder Mystery 2” **WINNER**
Dylan O’Brien: “It’s not right”
Jennifer Coolidge: “Wedding by force”
KeKe Palmer: “No.”
Fifth Brunson: “Abbott Elementary”
ADVANCED PERFORMANCE
Bad Bunny: “Bullet Train”
Bella Ramsey: “The Last of Us”
Emma D’Arcy: “The House of the Dragon”
Joseph Quinn: “Stranger Things” **WINNER**
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” **WINNER**
Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna) vs. Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven): “Stranger Things”
Keanu Reeves (John Wick) against everyone: “John Wick 4”
Escape from Narkina 5: “Andor”
TERRIFIC PERFORMANCE
Jennifer Coolidge: “The White Lotus” **WINNER**
Jesse Tyler Ferguson: “Cocaine Bear”
Justin Long: “Barbarian”
Rachel Sennott: “Bodies, bodies, bodies”
Sosie Bacon: “Smile”
BEST DUO
Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke: “Revenge”
Jenna Ortega and Thing: “Wednesday”
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey: “The Last of Us” **WINNER**
Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Grannò: “The white lotus”
Tom Cruise and Miles Teller: “Top Gun: Maverick”
BEST CAST OF KICK ASS
“Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Outer Banks”
“Stranger Things” **WINNER**
“Teen Wolf: The Movie”
BEST SONG
Demi Lovato: “Still Alive” from “Scream VI”
Doja Cat: “Vegas” from “Elvis”
Lady Gaga: “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”
OneRepublic: “I’m not worried” from “Top Gun: Maverick”
Rihanna: “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Taylor Swift: “Carolina” from “Where the Crawdads Sing” **WINNER**
BEST DOCUMENTARY-REALITY SERIES
“Family Vacation at the Jersey Shore”
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
“Family Reunion: Love & Hip Hop Edition”
“The Kardashians” **WINNER**
“Vander’s Bomb Rules”
BEST COMPETITION SERIES
“Coast of stars”
“Eldest brother”
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars” **WINNER**
“The Challenge: United States”
“The Traitors”
BEST HOST
Drew Barrymore: “The Drew Barrymore Show” **WINNER**
Joel Madden: “Master of Ink”
Nick Cannon: “The Masked Singer”
RuPaul: “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Kelly Clarkson: “The Kelly Clarkson Show”
BEST ON-SCREEN REALITY TEAM (presented by SONIC®)
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino, Pauly D (MVP): “Family Vacation at the Jersey Shore”
Tori Deal and Devin Walker: “The Challenge: Walk or Die”
RuPaul Charles and Michelle Visage: “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Ariana Madix, Katie Maloney, Scheana Shay, LaLa Kent: “Vanderpump Rules” **WINNER**
Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke: “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
“Halftime”
“Love, Lizzo”
“Selena Gomez: Me and My Mind” **WINNER**
“Sheryl”
“The Day the Music Died: The American Pie Story by Don McLean”