‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘The Last of Us’ Lead 2023 MTV Movie & TV Award Nominations

Top Gun: Maverick, stranger things And The last of us are among the top nominees for the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards with six nominations each. The White Lotus And Wednesday followed closely with four nominations per series.

Family Vacation Jersey Shore, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills And Vanderpump Rules all tied in the unscripted categories with two nominations each.

The first nominees for the MTV Movie & TV Awards are Austin Butler, Bad Bunny, Beatrice Grannò, Bella Ramsey, Cara Delevingne, Courteney Cox, Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jennifer Coolidge, Joseph Quinn, Justin Long, Keke Palmer , Madison Bailey, Maya Hawke, Quinta Brunson, Riley Keough, Rudy Pankow and Simona Tabasco.

This year’s ceremony also has two new categories: Best On-Screen Reality Team and Best Cast, Starring Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Outer Banks, Stranger Things And Teen Wolf: The Movie nominated for their ensemble casts.

Fans can vote for their favorite movies, TV shows, moments and cast members in scripted and unscripted projects through April 17. The show will air live May 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT from the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles. It will be broadcast internationally on MTV in over 170 countries.

Drew Barrymore will host the show. Over the course of her career, the talk show host has been nominated for 10 MTV Movie & TV Awards and has taken home three Golden Popcorns – two in scripted categories and one in unscripted.

See the full list of nominees below.

Best Movie

Avatar: the way of the water
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
No
Scream VI
Smile
Top gun: Maverick

Best performance

Stranger things
The last of us
The White Lotus
Wednesday
wolf pack
Yellowstone
Yellow jackets

Best Performance in a Motion Picture

Austin Butler Elvis
Florence Pug — Don’t worry honey
Keke Palmer — No
Michael B. Jordan — Creed III
Tom Cruise – Top gun: Maverick

Best Performance in a Show

Aubrey Plaza — The White Lotus
Christina Ricci — Yellow jackets
Jenna Ortega — Wednesday
Riley Keough – Daisy Jones and the Six
Sadie Sink — Stranger things
Selena Gomez — Only kills in the building

Dear 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

Dear villain

Elizabeth Olsen — Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness
Harry Styles- Don’t worry honey
Jamie Campbell Bower- Stranger things
M3GAN – M3GAN
The bear – Cocaine Bear

Best Kiss (Presented by Cheetos®)

Anna Torv + Philip Prajoux — The last of us
Harry Styles + David Dawson — My police officer
Madison Bailey + Rudy Pankow — Outdoor benches
Riley Keough + Sam Claflin — Daisy Jones and the Six
Selena Gomez + Cara Delevingne — Only kills in the building

Best Comedy Performance

Adam Sandler- Murder mystery 2
Dylan O’Brien – Not in order
Jennifer Coolidge- Shotgun marriage
Keke Palmer — No
Quinta Brunson — Abbot Elementary School

Groundbreaking performance

bad rabbit — 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) to everyone — John Wick 4
Escape from Narkina 5 — Andor

Most Scared Performance

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

Best duet

Camila Mendes + Maya Hawke — Revenge
Jenna Ortega + Thing — Wednesday
Pedro Pascal + Bella Ramsey — The last of us
Simona Tabasco + Beatrice Granno — The White Lotus
Tom Cruise + Miles Counter — Top gun: Maverick

Best Kick-Ass Cast

Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Outdoor benches
Stranger things
Teen Wolf: The Movie

Best song

Demi Lovato — “Still Alive” (Scream VI)
Doja Kat — “Vegas” (Elvis)
Lady Gaga — “Hold My Hand” (Top gun: Maverick)
OneRepublic — “I’m not worried” (Top gun: Maverick)
Rihanna — “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Taylor Swift — “Carolina” (Where the crawfish sing)

Best Docu-Reality Series

Family vacation in Jersey Shore
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

Dear 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 Onscreen Team (Presented by SONIC®)

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino, Pauly D (MVP) — Family vacation in Jersey Shore
Tori Deal and Devin Walker — The challenge: ride or die
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

Peace
Love, Lizzo
Selena Gomez: My mind and me
Sheryl
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie