‘Avengers: Endgame’ has won its first awards, at the ‘MTV Movie & TV Awards’. The crossover epic took the top award of the night, Best Movie, as well as Best Hero for Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), and Best Villain for Josh Brolin (Thanos).
At the awards show, hosted by ‘Shazam!’s Zachary Levi, ‘Endgame’ bested Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’, Sony’s animated ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’, Netflix teen rom-com ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’, and Jordan Peele’s frightening ‘Us’.
Ouch! Downey bested the show’s host Levi, who was nominated for ‘Shazam!’. Downey also beat Brie Larson for ‘Captain Marvel’, John David Washington for ‘BlacKkKlansman’, Maisie Williams for ‘Game of Thrones’. Brolin topped Jodie Comer for ‘Killing Eve’, Joseph Fiennes for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, Lupita Nyong’o for ‘Us’, and Penn Badgley for ‘You’.
In another Marvel victory, ‘Captain Marvel’ won Best Fight, between Brie Larson’s title character and villain Minn-Erva (Gemma Chan). The runners-up were ‘Avengers: Endgame’/Captain America Vs. Thanos, ‘GoT’/Arya vs. the White Walkers, ‘RBG’/Ruth Bader Ginsberg vs. Inequality, and WWE Wrestlemania.
Despite the vocal outcry from fandom, there is still love for ‘Game of Thrones’, as the departed HBO series won Best TV Show, over an eclectic mix of Netflix’s animated comedy ‘Big Mouth’, stalwart CW teen smash ‘Riverdale’, Candian comedy ‘Schitt’s Creek’, and the Netflix miniseries ‘The Haunting of Hill House’.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was nominated for a bizarrely high number of categories, and won for Best Real-Life Hero, but the most political that these awards got besides that, was granting the Best Performance on a (TV) Show prize to Elisabeth Olsen for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, besting Emilia Clarke for ‘Game of Thrones’, Gina Rodriguez for ‘Jane the Virgin’, and Kiernan Shipka for ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’.
You can see the full list of nominees and winners below:
BEST MOVIE
***WINNER*** Avengers: Endgame
BlacKkKlansman
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Us
BEST SHOW
Big Mouth
***WINNER*** 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
***WINNER*** 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
***WINNER*** 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
***WINNER*** Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man) – Avengers: Endgame
Zachary Levi (Billy Batson/Shazam) – Shazam!
BEST VILLAIN
Jodie Comer (Villanelle) – Killing Eve
Joseph Fiennes (Commander Fred Waterford) – The Handmaid’s Tale
***WINNER*** Josh Brolin (Thanos) – Avengers: Endgame
Lupita Nyong’o (Red) – Us
Penn Badgley (Joe Goldberg) – You
BEST KISS
Camila Mendes & Charles Melton (Veronica Lodge & Reggie Mantle) – Riverdale
Jason Momoa & Amber Heard (Aquaman & Mera) – Aquaman
Ncuti Gatwa & Connor Swindells (Eric Effiong & Adam Groff) – Sex Education
***WINNER*** Noah Centineo & Lana Condor (Peter Kavinsky & Lara Jean) – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Tom Hardy & Michelle Williams (Eddie Brock/Venom & Anne Weying) – Venom
REALITY ROYALTY
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation
***WINNER*** Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta
The Bachelor
The Challenge
Vanderpump Rules
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Awkwafina (Peik Lin Goh) – Crazy Rich Asians
***WINNER*** Dan Levy (David Rose) – Schitt’s Creek
John Mulaney (Andrew Glouberman) – Big Mouth
Marsai Martin (Little Jordan Sanders) – Little
Zachary Levi (Billy Batson/Shazam) – Shazam!
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Awkwafina (Peik Lin Goh) – Crazy Rich Asians
Haley Lu Richardson (Stella) – Five Feet Apart
Mj Rodriguez (Blanca Rodriguez) – Pose
Ncuti Gatwa (Eric Effiong) – Sex Education
***WINNER*** Noah Centineo (Peter Kavinsky) – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
BEST FIGHT
Avengers: Endgame – Captain America vs. Thanos
***WINNER*** Captain Marvel – Captain Marvel vs. Minn-Erva
Game of Thrones – Arya Stark vs. the White Walkers
RBG – Ruth Bader Ginsburg vs. Inequality
WWE Wrestlemania – Becky Lynch vs. Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair
BEST REAL–LIFE HERO
Alex Honnold – Free Solo
Hannah Gadsby – Nanette
Roman Reigns – WWE SmackDown
***WINNER*** Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RBG
Serena Williams – Being Serena
MOST FRIGHTENED PERFORMANCE
Alex Wolff (Peter) – Hereditary
Linda Cardellini (Anna Tate-Garcia) – The Curse of La Llorona
Rhian Rees (Dana Haines) – Halloween
***WINNER*** Sandra Bullock (Malorie) – Bird Box
Victoria Pedretti (Nell Crain) – The Haunting of Hill House
BEST DOCUMENTARY
At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal
McQueen
Minding the Gap
RBG
***WINNER*** Surviving R. Kelly
BEST HOST
Gayle King – CBS This Morning
***WINNER*** Nick Cannon – Wild ‘n Out
Nick Cannon – The Masked Singer
RuPaul – RuPaul’s Drag Race
Trevor Noah – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
MOST MEME-ABLE MOMENT
Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club – The Lilo Dance
Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood – Ray J’s Hat
RBG – The Notorious RBG
RuPaul’s Drag Race – Asia O’Hara’s butterfly finale fail
***WINNER*** The Bachelor – Colton Underwood jumps the fence
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT
***WINNER*** A Star Is Born, “Shallow”
Bohemian Rhapsody, “Live Aid Concert”
Captain Marvel, “Just A Girl”
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, “Masquerade”
On My Block, “Look At That Butt”
Riverdale, “Seventeen”
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, “Sunflower”
The Umbrella Academy, “I Think We’re Alone Now”
Source: MTV
