Euphoria, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Loki were the top winners at the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards, which were presented at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, Calif. Vanessa Hudgens hosted the show.
Euphoria received four awards – best show; best performance in a show for star Zendaya; best fight and here for the hookup. Euphoria has received nine Emmy nods over the past two seasons combined. The HBO teen drama won three Emmys two years ago, including outstanding lead actress in a drama series for Zendaya and outstanding original music and lyrics for Labrinth.
Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was the top-grossing film released in 2021, won two key awards – best movie and best performance in a movie for star Tom Holland. Despite its popularity, the film received just one Oscar nod – best visual effects.
Loki, a first-year Disney+ series based on Marvel Comics, also won two awards – breakthrough performance for Sophia Di Martino and best team for its stars, Hiddleston, Di Martino and Owen Wilson. In winning for breakthrough performance, Di Martino beat an Oscar-winning performance – Ariana DeBose in West Side Story.
Daniel Radcliffe won best villain for The Lost City 10 years after he won best hero for playing Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. Now that’s range.
The Batman, which was the third-most-nominated scripted program (after Spider-Man: No Way Home and Euphoria), was shut out.
MTV made some changes to its Movie & TV Awards for 2022. Most notably, that show and a spinoff that it introduced last year, Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted, aired on the same night. Last year, the two shows aired on successive nights — May 16 and May 17.
Also, MTV added six new categories across the two shows, including two that have a strong music focus – best song and best music documentary.
In the best music documentary category, 19-year-old sensation Olivia Rodrigo (driving home 2 u, a SOUR film) beat the greatest group of all time, The Beatles (The Beatles: Get Back). The other nominees in the category were docs by Janet Jackson, Kanye West and Oasis.
“On My Way (Marry Me)” from the Jennifer Lopez rom-com Marry Me was a surprise winner for best song. It beat “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto, a No. 1 hit on The Billboard Hot 100, and a song from the buzzy Euphoria (“Little Star”), among others. Lopez also received a special award, the Generation Award.
The show originated in 1992 as the MTV Movie Awards. It was renamed the MTV Movie & TV Awards for its 26th edition in 2017 to signify that it now honored work in television as well as film.
Executive producers for both shows 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, and Lisa Lauricella serves as the music talent executive for both shows.
2022 Winners & Nominees: Scripted:
Best Movie
Dune
Scream
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings
WINNER: Spider-Man: No Way Home
The Adam Project
The Batman
Best Show
WINNER: Euphoria
Inventing Anna
Loki
Squid Game
Ted Lasso
Yellowstone
Best Performance in a Movie
Lady Gaga – House of Gucci
Robert Pattinson – The Batman
Sandra Bullock – The Lost City
Timothée Chalamet – Dune
WINNER: Tom Holland – Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Performance in a Show
Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout
Kelly Reilly – Yellowstone
Lily James – Pam & Tommy
Sydney Sweeney – Euphoria
WINNER: Zendaya – Euphoria
Breakthrough Performance
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Hannah Einbinder – Hacks
Jung Ho-yeon – Squid Game
WINNER: Sophia Di Martino – Loki
Best Comedic Performance
Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso
John Cena – Peacemaker
Johnny Knoxville – Jackass Forever
Megan Stalter – Hacks
WINNER: Ryan Reynolds – Free Guy
Best Team
WINNER: Loki – Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson
Only Murders in the Building – Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, Martin Short
Spider-Man: No Way Home – Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire
The Adam Project – Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobell
The Lost City – Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt
Best Hero
Daniel Craig – No Time to Die
Oscar Isaac – Moon Knight
WINNER: Scarlett Johansson – Black Widow
Simu Liu – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Tom Holland – Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Villain
Colin Farrell – The Batman
WINNER: Daniel Radcliffe – The Lost City
James Jude Courtney – Halloween Kills
Victoria Pedretti – You
Willem Dafoe – Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Kiss
Hunter Schafer & Dominic Fike – Euphoria
Lily Collins & Lucien Laviscount – Emily in Paris
WINNER: Poopies & the snake – Jackass Forever
Robert Pattinson & Zoë Kravitz – The Batman
Tom Holland & Zendaya – Spider-Man: No Way Home
Best Fight
Black Widow vs. Widows – Black Widow
WINNER: Cassie vs. Maddy – Euphoria
Guy vs. Dude – Free Guy
Shang-Chi bus fight – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Men end battle – Spider-Man: No Way Home
Most Frightened Performance
WINNER: Jenna Ortega – Scream
Kyle Richards – Halloween Kills
Mia Goth – X
Millicent Simmonds – A Quiet Place Part II
Sadie Sink – Fear Street: Part Two 1978
Here for the Hookup
WINNER: Euphoria
Never Have I Ever
Pam & Tommy
Sex/Life
Sex Lives of College Girls
Best Song
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” – Jennifer Hudson / Respect
“Just Look Up” – Ariana Grande & Kid Cudi / Don’t Look Up
“Little Star” – Dominic Fike / Euphoria
WINNER: “On My Way (Marry Me)” – Jennifer Lopez / Marry Me
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” – Encanto Cast / Encanto
Best Music Documentary
JANET JACKSON.
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
Oasis Knebworth 1996
WINNER: Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)
The Beatles: Get Back
Best Musical Moment (Social Only Category)
Bridgerton: “Wrecking Ball”
Cinderella: “Million to One”
Cobra Kai: “The Moment of Truth”
Emily in Paris: “Dynamite”
Encanto: “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”
Euphoria: “Holding Out For a Hero”
WINNER: Heartstopper: “Dance With Me”
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: “Rose Song”
House of Gucci: “Disco Fever”
Halo: “Original Score”
Last Night in Soho: “Downtown”
Peacemaker: “Do Ya Wanna Taste It?”
Tick, Tick…BOOM!: “Therapy”
Turning Red: “Nobody Like U”
West Side Story: “America”
Yellowjackets: “This Is How We Do It”
Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted, hosted by Tayshia Adams, aired immediately following the Movie & TV Awards. Billboard will list those winners as soon as the show ends at 11 p.m. ET.
