MTV Movie & TV Awards 2022: Here's a look at some of the night's biggest moments

Chris Evans, Olivia Rodrigo, Vanessa Hudgens, Sydney Sweeney and others all attended the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards in Santa Monica, CA

By The A.V. Club | June 6, 2022 | 2:24am

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MTV Movie & TV Awards 2022: Here's a look at some of the night's biggest moments

Chris Evans, Sophia Di Martino, Olivia Rodrigo, Sydney Sweeney Photo: Rich Polk

The 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards were held in Santa Monica, California at the Barker Hangar, and some of the biggest names in Hollywood turned out for the fan-voted event made for movie lovers and TV aficionados. After being cancelled in 2020 due to COVID, the ceremony returned last year and was hosted by Leslie Jones. This year’s ceremony was hosted by Vanessa Hudgens.

Taking home one of the biggest awards of the night—Best Movie—was, of course, box office behemoth Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film made over $1 billion at the theater and was undoubtedly the biggest movie of the year.

If you didn’t get a chance to tune into the MTV Movie & TV Awards, though, never fear because The A.V. Club has compiled a quick roundup list of some of the evening’s biggest moments.

Chris Evans celebrates a fellow Marvel superhero

Chris Evans, donning a NASA hat just in case you forgot he’s going to be in that later this month, presented the award for Best Movie to Spider-Man: No Way Home. No one from the film was in attendance at the ceremony, but both Tom Holland and Zendaya appeared via video to accept the award.

Euphoria wins Best Show

The other big award of the night went to , and Sydney Sweeney was on hand to accept it on behalf of the rest of her Euphoria cast members. “We are so appreciative of everyone’s love and support,” she said before also thanking creator Sam Levinson and the series’ hardworking crew.

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Jennifer Lopez inspires a generation

Vanessa Hudgens presented Jennifer Lopez with the MTV Generation Award, one of the two honorary awards of the evening. Hudgens says Lopez received the award because she not only “helped define a generation, but she’s inspired one.”

Poopies and the snake take Best Kiss

Jackass newcomer Poopies and the snake he smooched in Jackass Forever beat out couples like Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz in and real-life couple Zendaya and Tom Holland in for the Best Kiss award.“Now that I’m a big time superstar, me and the snake broke up,” Poopies said in his acceptance speech—of course this was actually just a cue for a giant python to be brought out (by six men!!!) from backstage. Once the python was front and center, Poopies puckered up and gave it a kiss.

Swae Lee provides a musical interlude

Swae Lee teamed up with Diplo for the first live televised performance of “Tupelo Shuffle” from the Elvis film soundtrack.

Jack Black is crowned a Comedic Genius

Awkwafina presented Jack Black with the other honorary award of the night: the Comedic Genius award. After rolling his way across the stage and up to the mic, Black jokingly asked, “Comedic genius? Are you kidding, for what?”…before you know, just casually listing a few films from his impressive filmography. “I don’t deserve this, but I will take it.” he said.

Daniel Radcliffe was last year’s greatest villain

Appearing at the ceremony via video, Daniel Radcliffe accepted the award for Best Villain for his role as Abigail Fairfax in The Lost City. In his speech, he gave a special shoutout to his accent, which he thinks really helped him sell his villainy. “This is the universally recognized accent of pure evil,” he said.

Olivia Rodrigo gets her very first golden popcorn statue

Olivia Rodrigo took home the award for Best Music Documentary for driving home 2 u (a SOUR film). During her acceptance speech, Rodrigo said she made the film, in part, for fans who were unable to catch her on tour. “This is for you,” she told them before exiting the stage.

Sophia Di Martino takes home the first award of the night

Sophia Di Martino accepted the award for Breakthrough Performance for her role as Sylvie in Disney+ . “I was nine months pregnant when they offered me the job” she said during her acceptance speech before adding, “It’s been quite the journey.”

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