MTV invades TV and streaming

Times are indeed a-changing. It was a surprise when MTV put up its own annual Movie Awards. People wondered what a music channel initially concerned only with music videos had to do with motion pictures. But the MTV Movie Awards turned out to be young and hip with fun categories like Best Kiss or Best Villain. So, nobody from the old guard section of movie award-givers raised any objection.

Now, having probably realized that it was becoming also old guard itself, the MTV Movie Awards decided to do a revamp this year. No need for fans to worry because Best Kiss and Best Villain are still categories, but there are changes like having non-gendered acting nominees. No Best Actor or Actress anymore. Just Best Actor for both. There are also new ones like Best Documentary.

The biggest change though is the fact that from now on the MTV Movie Awards will not be simply Movie Awards anymore. Now included are accomplishments on television and hold your breaths, from streaming sites. I think that MTV made a big step forward with this decision, which is so right.

Whether we watch those moving images on big screens at the theater, on TV sets at home or on your PC, laptop, mobile phone, etc., etc., they are all basically motion pictures or movies. Besides, it is a fact that because they do not have to entice moviegoers into the theaters, producers for television and streaming sites are more daring in their choice of materials and execution. And everybody can enjoy those for a very small fee wherever and whenever they are.

And so for the first time in 20 years, an actor like Allison Williams, a Best Villain nominee from the movie Get Out is in competition with Demogorgon of Stranger Things from Netflix; Jared Leto of Suicide Squad; Jeffrey Dean Morgan of The Walking Dead; and Wes Bentley of American Horror Story. I tell you the movies are in grave danger at the MTV Movie Awards this year.

You can watch the live telecast from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on MTV on May 8.

Check out the nominations:

Movie of the Year: Beauty and the Beast; Logan; Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; The Edge of Seventeen.

Best Actor in a Movie: Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out; Emma Watson, Beauty and the Beast; Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen; Hugh Jackman, Logan; James McAvoy, Split; Taraji Henson, Hidden Figures.

Show of the Year: Atlanta; Game of Thrones; Insecure; Pretty Little Liars; Stranger Things; This Is Us.

Best Actor in a Show: Daniel Glover, Atlanta; Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones; Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin; Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Walking Dead; Mandy Moore, This is Us; Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things.

Best Kiss: Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome, Moonlight; Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, La La Land; Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, Beauty and the Beast; Taraji Henson and Terrence Howard, Empire; Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

Best Host: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen Show; John Oliver, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; RuPaul, RuPaul’s Drag Race; Samantha Bee, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee; Trevor Noah, The Daily Show.

Best Documentary: 13th, I Am Not Your Negro; O.J. Mada In America; This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous; TIME: The Kalief Browder Story.

Best Reality Competition: America’s Got Talent; Masterchef Junior; RuPaul’s Drag Race; The Bachelor; The Voice.

Best Comedic Performance: Adam Devine, Workaholics; Ilara Glazer and Abbi Jacobsen, Broad City; Lil Rel Howery, Get Out; Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy; Seth Rogen, Sausage Party; Will Arnett, The LEGO Batman.

Best Hero: Felicity Jones, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; Grant Gustin, The Flash; Mike Colter, Luke Cage; Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things; Stephen Amell, Arrow; Taraji  Henson, Hidden Figures.

Tearjerker: Game of Thrones, Hodor’s Death; Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith tells her children about Derek’s death; Me Before You, Will tells Louisa he can’t stay with her; Moonlight, Paula tells Chiron that she loves him; This Is Us, Jack and Randall at karate.

Next Generation: Chrissy Metz; Daniel Kaluuya; Issa Rae; Riz Ahmed; Yara Shadidi.

Best Duo: Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, The Voice; Daniel Kaluuya and Lil Rel Howlery, Get Out; Brian Tyree Henry and Lakeith Stanfield; Hugh Jackman and Dafne Keen, Logan; Josh Gad and Luke Evans, Beauty and the Beast; Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party.

Best American Story: Blackish, Fresh Off the Boat, Jane the Virgin, Moonlight, Transparent.

Best Fight Against The System: Get Out, Hidden Figures, Loving, Luke Cage and Robot way ushering in a new era in Philippine entertainment.