MTV Movie & TV Awards won’t happen this year, returns in 2025 with 'reimagined format'
We’ll never know who had the best kiss of the year.
Sorry, MTV fans — 2024 won’t have a ceremony for the network’s Movie & TV Awards.
Entertainment Weekly has learned that the MTV Movie & TV Awards will not take place this year, but will return to the airwaves in a revamped format in 2025. The network offered no official reason for the ceremony’s pause.
That unfortunately means that 2023’s crop of popular movies and shows will never be honored by the historic institution. Barbie won’t have a chance to fight back after Oppenheimer’s dominance on Oscar night. The Meg and the Entity from Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning won’t face off for Best Villain. Bottoms will be robbed of the opportunity to trounce The Flash in the Best Fight category. The tragedies are innumerable.
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Jennifer Lopez at the 2022 MTV Movie AwardsRelated: MTV Movie & TV Awards will not be held live amid writers' strike
This marks the third time in five years that the ceremony has been substantially altered or canceled altogether. In 2020, MTV opted to forgo a ceremony in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, instead broadcasting a “MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time” show hosted by Vanessa Hudgens.
Additionally, the 2023 ceremony shifted into a pre-taped clip show, as host Drew Barrymore dropped out of the show in solidarity with the WGA strike, which also led many planned guests to pull out of the ceremony. As a result, winners like Pedro Pascal and Jennifer Coolidge accepted their awards at home (or, in Tom Cruise’s case, in an airborne jet).
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Pedro Pascal at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV AwardsRelated: MTV Movie & TV Awards will not be held live amid writers' strike
MTV also experimented with new formats for its 2021 and 2022 awards, splitting both years’ broadcasts into two ceremonies: scripted and unscripted, the latter of which awarded reality and documentary entertainment.
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Formerly known as the MTV Movie Awards, the ceremony began in 1992, and has been hosted by the likes of Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Mike Myers, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jimmy Fallon, Dwayne Johnson, and Kevin Hart, among many others. It began honoring television shows in 2017.
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