The Academy Awards briefly considered catering to the stupid masses with a Best Popular Movie category, but the all-powerful Academy should know by now that nobody can do fan-centric award categories like the folks at MTV. This year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards ceremony is giving out some usual stuff like Best Movie and Best Performance In A Movie (fuck your gendered categories, Oscars!), but it also has crucial stuff you won’t find anywhere else like Best Kiss, Reality Royalty, Most Frightened Performance, and Most Meme-Able Moment. Someday, god-willing, the Academy Awards will make some room for the Most Meme-Able Moment, but MTV is our only hope until then.
As for the winners, Avengers: Endgame won Best Movie, Lady Gaga made up for the Oscars by winning Best Performance In A Movie, Surviving R. Kelly won Best Documentary, and Daniel Levy won Best Comedic Performance for Schitt’s Creek—which is just wild, if only because there’s no way more people watch Schitt’s Creek than any of the other nominees.
Of course, like any award show, this one had some controversial winners as well, but it’s rare for a win to be as blatantly wrongheaded as it is to give Best Fight to Captain Marvel vs. Minn-Erva. That was a fun movie, sure, but Captain America vs. Thanos was one of the greatest moments in the history of cinema. He used Mjolnir! Come on!
The full list of winners and nominees is below (via Us Weekly).
Best Movie
Avengers: Endgame
BlacKkKlansman
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
Us
Best Show
Big Mouth
Game Of Thrones
Riverdale
Schitt’s Creek
The Haunting Of Hill House
Best Performance In A Movie
Amandla Stenberg (Starr Carter) — The Hate U Give
Lady Gaga (Ally) — A Star Is Born
Lupita Nyong’o (Red) — Us
Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury) — Bohemian Rhapsody
Sandra Bullock (Malorie) — Bird Box
Best Performance In A Show
Elisabeth Moss (June Osborne/Offred) — The Handmaid’s Tale
Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) — Game Of Thrones
Gina Rodriguez (Jane Villanueva) — Jane The Virgin
Kiernan Shipka (Sabrina Spellman) — Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
Best Hero
Brie Larson (Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel) — Captain Marvel
John David Washington (Ron Stallworth) — BlacKkKlansman
Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) — Game Of Thrones
Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man) — Avengers: Endgame
Zachary Levi (Billy Batson/Shazam) — Shazam!