The nominations for the 2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards for this year’s ceremony, which will take place across two nights on May 16 and May 17 were unveiled on Monday.
Leading this year’s roster of nominees is Marvel’s Disney Plus series ‘WandaVision’, which earned five nods — including best show, best performance in a show (Elizabeth Olsen), best hero (Teyonah Parris), best villain (Kathryn Hahn) and best fight (Wanda vs. Agatha).
Receiving four nods were Netflix’s ‘Emily In Paris’ (produced by MTV Studios) and Amazon Prime Video’s ‘The Boys’. Earning three are Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’, Disney Plus’ The Mandalorian and the most-recognised film of the year, Amazon Studios’ Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
The company also announced the nominees for the first-ever edition of its spin-off ceremony ‘Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted’.
Chadwick Boseman (‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’) received a posthumous nomination in the movie performance category this year.
First-time nominees include Carey Mulligan, Zendaya, Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma Corrin, Michaela Coel, Anthony Mackie, Jack Quaid, Pedro Pascal, Teyonah Parris, Annie Murphy, Eric Andre, Leslie Jones, Paul Mescal, Rege-Jean Page, among many others.
Additional details about the 2021 ‘MTV Movie and TV Awards’ and “Movie and TV Awards: Unscripted’, including hosts, presenters and more will be announced in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, fan voting in 25 gender-neutral categories has been opened at vote.mtv.com through April 30.
Some categories are:
BEST MOVIE
‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
‘Promising Young Woman’
‘Soul’
‘To All the Boys: Always and Forever’
BEST SHOW
‘Bridgerton’
‘Cobra Kai’
‘Emily in Paris’
‘The Boys’
‘WandaVision’
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Antonia Gentry – ‘Ginny & Georgia’
Ashley Park – ‘Emily in Paris’
Maria Bakalova – ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’
Paul Mescal – ‘Normal People’
Rege-Jean Page – ‘Bridgerton’
BEST DATING SHOW
’90 Day Fiance’
‘Ex On The Beach’
‘Love Is Blind’
‘Ready to Love’
‘The Bachelorette’
BEST REALITY CAST
’90 Day Fiance’
‘Jersey Shore Family Vacation’
‘Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’
BEST COMPETITION SERIES
‘Legendary’
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
‘The Challenge’
‘The Circle’
‘The Masked Singer’
BEST LIFESTYLE SHOW
‘Deliciousness’
‘Fixer Upper: Welcome Home’
‘Making The Cut’
‘Nailed It!’
‘Queer Eye’
