Comedian Leslie Jones will host the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards, set for Sunday, May 16. The show will air live from Los Angeles at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
In addition, Jones is nominated for her first MTV Movie & TV Award this year for best comedic performance for her role in Coming 2 America, opposite Eddie Murphy.
Jones, best known for her work on Saturday Night Live and the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters, hosted the BET Awards in 2017.
The following night (Monday, May 17), MTV will air the inaugural Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted. The show is billed as “a first-of-its-kind celebration of all things reality television.”
Fans can now vote for their favorites across 25 gender-neutral categories including best kiss, breakthrough performance, best show and more by visiting vote.mtv.com through April 30.
Executive producers for both the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards and the Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted are MTV’s Bruce Gillmer, Wendy Plaut and Vanessa Whitewolf and Den of Thieves’ Jesse Ignjatovic and Barb Bialkowski. Jackie Barba and Alicia Portugal are executives in charge of production. Lisa Lauricella serves as the music talent executive for both events.
