Here are the winners from the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards
Euphoria cleaned up surprisingly well, while Spider-Man: No Way Home was almost shut out
The MTV Movie & TV Awards have always been a weird barometer for the specific subset of society that would care about the MTV Movie & TV Awards, like… the Oscars or Emmys but for people who… watch MTV. And hey, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not like you’re going to see Stranger Things actors (but not any of the famous ones) presenting a well-deserved award to Sophia Di Martino for her performance in Loki anywhere else (Loki also won Best Team, which we’re going to say was a credit to the performance of Alligator Loki).
Plus there are the awards specific to this show, like Best Kiss (which went to Jackass newcomer Poopies and the snake that ripped the shit out of his face) and Best Fight (Euphoria beat out the final fight from Spider-Man: No Way Home, a clear indication of what kind of crowd we’re dealing with here). Jack Black was presented with the Comedic Genius Award and gave a self-congratulatory speech about all of the cool funny stuff he does that went quicker than the career highlight reel they played before he came out.
Also, Jennifer Lopez beat “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” to win Best Song, which is probably only because she was already there to accept the MTV Generation Award later in the show. Or are people so over “Bruno” and its meme status that they refuse to give it popcorn trophy? Again, say what you will about the MTV Movie & TV Awards, but few things are this bizarrely unpredictable (seriously, Daniel Radcliffe as Best Villain over Colin Farrell’s Penguin?).
One brilliant concession, though, is that maybe a third or so of the categories were not televised, and the ones not shown were conveniently weighted in favor of winners who were not in attendance. It’s exciting that Tom Holland won Best Performance In A Movie, but if he’s not there, who gives a shit? Better to to have a speeder awards show than… anything else in existence. Seriously, more speedy awards shows.
The full list of winners and nominees is below.
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 Hero
Daniel Craig – No Time to Die
Oscar Isaac – Moon Knight
Scarlett Johansson – Black Widow
Simu Liu – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Tom Holland – Spider-Man: No Way Home
Here For The Hookup
Euphoria
Never Have I Ever
Pam & Tommy
Sex/Life
Sex Lives of College Girls