Drew Barrymore STEPS DOWN arsenic Host of 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards
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The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards aired connected May 7 pursuing a bid of shake-ups. Just a fewer days earlier the large show, Drew Barrymore stepped down from serving arsenic host to amusement her enactment of the Writers Guild of America, who are connected strike.
"I person listened to the writers, and successful bid to genuinely respect them, I volition pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards unrecorded successful solidarity with the strike," the histrion said successful a May 4 connection to Variety. "Everything we observe and grant astir movies and television is calved retired of their creation. And until a solution is reached, I americium choosing to hold but I'll beryllium watching from location and anticipation you volition articulation me."
Barrymore went connected to explicit her gratitude to MTV and noted she'd beryllium backmost to big the 2024 grant show. Bruce Gillmer, enforcement shaper of the MTV Movie & TV Awards, told the outlet the enactment has "full respect" for her determination and revealed the lawsuit wouldn't person a big this clip around.
In the end, MTV ended up forgoing a unrecorded event and alternatively went with a pre-recorded amusement that featured video messages from the winners, throwbacks to memorable moments from past ceremonies and exclusive clips from the upcoming movies The Little Mermaid and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Barrymore was inactive featured successful a fewer pre-taped sketches, including 1 wherever she pretended to play Skipper for the upcoming Barbie movie and different wherever her Never Been Kissed quality Josie traveled passim shows similar The White Lotus and movies similar Nope to effort and unafraid her archetypal kiss.
To spot the afloat database of winners, scroll on.
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Best Movie
Scream VI
Best Show
The Last of Us
Best Performance successful a Movie
Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)
Best Performance successful a Show
Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
Best Hero
Pedro Pascal (The Last Of Us)
Best Villain
Elizabeth Olsen (Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse of Madness)
Best Kiss
Madison Bailey and Rudy Pankow (Outer Banks)
Best Comedic Performance
Adam Sandler (Murder Mystery 2)
Breakthrough Performance
Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things)
Best Fight
Courteney Cox vs. Ghostface (Scream VI)
Most Frightened Performance
Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
Best Duo
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey (The Last Of Us)
Best Kick-Ass Cast
Stranger Things
Best Song
Taylor Swift, "Carolina" (Where The Crawdads Sing)
Best Docu-Reality Series
The Kardashians
Best Competition Series
RuPaul's Drag Race: All-Stars
Best Host
Drew Barrymore (The Drew Barrymore Show)
Best Reality On-Screen Team
Ariana Madix, Katie Maloney, Scheana Shay, Lala Kent (Vanderpump Rules)
Best Music Documentary
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
Best Musical Moment
Purple Hearts: "Come Back Home"
Comedic Genius Award
Jennifer Coolidge
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