2023 MTV Movie and TV Awards nominations: ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Stranger Things’ top the list

Daniel Montgomery
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On Wednesday, April 5, MTV announced the nominees for the 2023 MTV Movie and TV Awards honoring the best work on the big and small screens as voted on by fans online. Starting immediately, audiences can vote for their favorites across all gender-neutral categories by visiting vote.mtv.com through Monday, April 17 at 6pm ET. The show will air on May 7 live from Barker Hangar in Los Angeles starting at 8pm ET/PT.

The year’s most nominated film is “Top Gun: Maverick” with six bids including Best Movie and Best Performance in a Movie (Tom Cruise). Cruise is a longtime MTV favorite with previous wins for Best Male Performance for “Jerry Maguire” in 1997 and “Mission: Impossible II” in 2000, back when performance categories were still gendered. He also won the honorary MTV Generation Award in 2005. But these are his first nominations in any category since “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” 11 years ago.

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Tied as the most nominated TV show, also with six nominations, are a pair of sci-fi/horror hits: “Stranger Things” and “The Last of Us.” Both are up for Best Show. “Stranger Things” picked up an additional nom for Sadie Sink for Best Performance in a Show, while “The Last of Us” star Pedro Pascal is up for Best Hero. “The Last of Us” competes at these awards for the very first time, but “Stranger Things” has been an MTV fan favorite, winning Best Show in 2017 and 2018. Does that make it the front-runner to win again?

See who made the cut below, and join the discussion on this and more with your fellow movie and TV fans here in our forums.

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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 and 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 and 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
Anna Torv + Philip Prajoux – The Last Of Us
Harry Styles + David Dawson – My Policeman
Madison Bailey + Rudy Pankow – Outer Banks
Riley Keough + Sam Claflin – Daisy Jones and The Six
Selena Gomez + 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 + Maya Hawke – Do Revenge
Jenna Ortega + Thing – Wednesday
Pedro Pascal + Bella Ramsey – The Last Of Us
Simona Tabasco + Beatrice Grannò – The White Lotus
Tom Cruise + Miles Teller – Top Gun: Maverick

BEST KICK-ASS CAST
Ant-Man and 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 and 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
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 and Me
Sheryl
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie

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