MTV Announces Full List Of Nominees For 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards

MTV has announced the list of nominees for its 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards ceremony that Drew Barrymore will host on May 7 at 8 PM/ET at Los Angeles’s Barker Hangar. Among the nominees are some of the most talked about movies and shows, such as Top Gun: Maverick, Scream VI, Stranger Things, and Last of Us.

This MTV ceremony also marks the debut of two new categories for its unscripted types: Best Reality On-Screen and Best Kick-Ass cast.

For the complete list of categories and nominees, look below.

BEST MOVIE

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis
• Nope
• Scream VI
• Smile
• Top Gun: Maverick

BEST SHOW

• Stranger Things
• The Last of Us
• The White Lotus
• Wednesday
• Wolf Pack
• Yellowstone
• Yellowjackets

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MOVIE

• Austin Butler: Elvis
• Florence Pugh: Don’t Worry Darling
• KeKe Palmer: Nope
• Michael B. Jordan: Creed III
• Tom Cruise: Top Gun: Maverick

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHOW

• Aubrey Plaza: The White Lotus
• Christina Ricci: Yellowjackets
• Jenna Ortega: Wednesday
• Riley Keough: Daisy Jones & The Six
• Sadie Sink: Stranger Things
• Selena Gomez: Only Murders in the Building

BEST HERO

• Diego Luna: Andor
• Jenna Ortega: Wednesday
• Paul Rudd: Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• Pedro Pascal: The Last of Us
• Tom Cruise: Top Gun: Maverick

BEST VILLAIN

• Elizabeth Olsen: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• Harry Styles: Don’t Worry Darling
• Jamie Campbell Bower: Stranger Things
• M3GAN: M3GAN
• The Bear: Cocaine Bear

BEST KISS (presented by Cheetos®)

• Anna Torv and Philip Prajoux: The Last of Us
• Harry Styles and David Dawson: My Policeman
• Madison Bailey and Rudy Pankow: Outer Banks
• Riley Keough and Sam Claflin: Daisy Jones & The Six
• Selena Gomez and Cara Delevingne: Only Murders in the Building

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE

• Adam Sandler: Murder Mystery 2
• Dylan O’Brien: Not Okay
• Jennifer Coolidge: Shotgun Wedding
• KeKe Palmer: Nope
• Quinta Brunson: Abbott Elementary

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

• Bad Bunny: Bullet Train
• Bella Ramsey: The Last of Us
• Emma D’Arcy: House of the Dragon
• Joseph Quinn: Stranger Things
• Rachel Sennott: Bodies Bodies Bodies

BEST FIGHT

• Brad Pitt (Ladybug) vs. Bad Bunny (The Wolf): Bullet Train
• Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers) vs. Ghostface: Scream VI
• Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna) vs. Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven): Stranger Things
• Keanu Reeves (John Wick) vs. Everyone: John Wick 4
• Escape from Narkina 5: Andor

MOST FRIGHTENED PERFORMANCE

• Jennifer Coolidge: The White Lotus
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson: Cocaine Bear
• Justin Long: Barbarian
• Rachel Sennott: Bodies Bodies Bodies
• Sosie Bacon: Smile

BEST DUO

• Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke: Do Revenge
• Jenna Ortega and Thing: Wednesday
• Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey: The Last of Us
• Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Grannò: The White Lotus
• Tom Cruise and Miles Teller: Top Gun: Maverick

BEST KICK-ASS CAST

• Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Outer Banks
• Stranger Things
• Teen Wolf: The Movie

BEST SONG

• Demi Lovato: “Still Alive” (Scream VI)
• Doja Cat: “Vegas” (Elvis)
• Lady Gaga: “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
• OneRepublic: “I Ain’t Worried” (Top Gun: Maverick)
• Rihanna: “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
• Taylor Swift: “Carolina” (Where the Crawdads Sing)

BEST DOCU-REALITY SERIES

• Jersey Shore Family Vacation
• The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
• Family Reunion: Love & Hip Hop Edition
• The Kardashians
• Vanderpump Rules

BEST COMPETITION SERIES

• All-Star Shore
• Big Brother
• RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars
• The Challenge: USA
• The Traitors

BEST HOST

• Drew Barrymore: The Drew Barrymore Show
• Joel Madden: Ink Master
• Nick Cannon: The Masked Singer
• RuPaul: RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Kelly Clarkson: The Kelly Clarkson Show

BEST REALITY ON-SCREEN TEAM (presented by SONIC®)

• Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino, Pauly D (MVP): Jersey Shore Family Vacation
• Tori Deal and Devin Walker: The Challenge: Ride or Dies
• RuPaul Charles and Michelle Visage: RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Ariana Madix, Katie Maloney, Scheana Shay, LaLa Kent: Vanderpump Rules
• Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY

• Halftime
• Love, Lizzo
• Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
• Sheryl
• The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie

(Via MTV)