MTV Movie & TV Awards Put ‘On Pause’ For 2024

This year celebs won’t be seeing those "Golden Popcorn" statues. The MTV Movie & TV Awards have been put "on pause" this year. Billboard reported that the award show "will return with a reimagined format in 2025."

The annual MTV Movie Awards has been running live from 1992 to 2019 but has lost momentum in recent years. Last year, the show that ran on May 7 was not broadcast live as planned following the host Drew Barrymore’s exit. She was set to host but when the Writers Guild of America strike took place, just a few days before the show, Barrymore and the planned guests dropped out.

"As we carefully navigate how best to deliver the fan first awards' show we envisioned that our team has worked so hard to create," said executive producer Bruce Gillmer in a statement to E! News May 5, "we're pivoting away from a live event that still enables us to produce a memorable night full of exclusive sneak peaks, irreverent categories our audience has come to expect, and countless moments that will both surprise and delight as we honor the best of film and TV over the past year.

In 2020, the show wasn’t held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, MTV aired MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time, a clip show hosted by Vanessa Hudgens. It featured highlights from past ceremonies.

The award show hasn’t had the best of luck when you think about it. The 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards were scheduled to take place on Nov. 5, 2023, at the Paris Nord Villepinte in Paris. The ceremony was canceled on Oct. 19 due to the Israel–Hamas war, becoming the first EMAs to be canceled in its 30-year history. Despite that setback, voting remained open until Oct. 31. The winning artists were revealed on Nov. 5.

Of course, a Reddit thread was dedicated to the news of the MTV Awards being postponed. “Damn, now how am I gonna know who had the best kiss,” someone said. Another person asked a question that many on the thread brought up, “Can they just scrap MTV finally?” Many people spoke on how the network has “strayed away from its roots.”

The MTV Movie & TV Awards were once a pop-culture staple. Previous hosts of the show included such A-list stars as Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Ben Stiller, Mike Myers, Jimmy Fallon, and Sarah Jessica Parker, the latter at the height of her Sex and the City fame.

Taylor Swift was the big winner at last night's 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center. She won nine awards, one short of the record for a single show; according to Billboard, Peter Gabriel won ten awards at the VMAs in 1987. Swift now has 23 lifetime VMAs, second only to Beyonce (per Billboard). Swift's first award of the night was Song of the Year. The award was presented to Swift by the reunited NSYNC.

Swift also won the night's top prize, Video of the Year. She won that for "Anti-Hero." It's the second year in a row that she won that award. Last year she won the same award for "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)."

Nicki Minaj "hosted" and performed. According to a source at MTV familiar with the awards show, no one can labeled as a "host" because of the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes. In addition to Minaj's emceeing duties, she also performed her newest single, "Last Time I Saw You," for the very first time.

Sean “Diddy” Combs was honored with the Global Icon Award. It was the third-ever Global Icon Award, which MTV says "celebrates an artist or band whose unparalleled career and continued influence have achieved a unique level of global success in music and beyond." Shakira received the Video Vanguard Award and also performed at the awards show for the first time since 2006. Other performers included Olivia Rodrigo, Demi Lovato, Doja Cat, Karol G, Kelsea Ballerini, Fall Out Boy, Måneskin, and K-Pop boy band Stray Kids.

The 39th annual awards show was broadcast simultaneously on VH1, MVT2, Comedy Central, CMT, BET, BET Her, Paramount Network, and Nickelodeon. Those who use streams can tune in live on DirecTV and Paramount+ apps.

Take a look below at the winners of the major categories of the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards below.

Doja Cat – “Attention”
Miley Cyrus – “Flowers”
Nicki Minaj – “Super Freaky Girl”
Olivia Rodrigo – “vampire”
Sam Smith, Kim Petras – “Unholy”
SZA – “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” -- WINNER

Beyoncé
Doja Cat
KAROL G
Nicki Minaj
Shakira
Taylor Swift -- WINNER

Miley Cyrus – “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo – “vampire”
Rema & Selena Gomez – “Calm Down”
Sam Smith, Kim Petras – “Unholy”
Steve Lacy – “Bad Habit”
SZA – “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” -- WINNER

GloRilla
Ice Spice -- WINNER
Kaliii
Peso Pluma
PinkPantheress
Reneé Rapp

David Guetta & Bebe Rexha – “I'm Good (Blue)"
Post Malone, Doja Cat – “I Like You (A Happier Song)”
Diddy ft. Bryson Tiller, Ashanti, Yung Miami – “Gotta Move On”
KAROL G, Shakira – “TQG” -- WINNER
Metro Boomin with The Weeknd, 21 Savage, and Diddy – “Creepin' (Remix)”
Rema & Selena Gomez – “Calm Down”

Demi Lovato – “Swine”
Dua Lipa – “Dance The Night (From Barbie The Album)”
Ed Sheeran – “Eyes Closed”
Miley Cyrus – “Flowers”
Olivia Rodrigo – “vampire”
P!NK – “TRUSTFALL”
Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” -- WINNER

Diddy ft. Bryson Tiller, Ashanti, Yung Miami – “Gotta Move On”
DJ Khaled ft. Drake & Lil Baby – “STAYING ALIVE”
GloRilla & Cardi B – “Tomorrow 2”
Lil Uzi Vert – “Just Wanna Rock"
Lil Wayne ft. Swizz Beatz & DMX – “Kant Nobody”
Metro Boomin ft Future – “Superhero (Heroes and Villains)”
Nicki Minaj – “Super Freaky Girl” -- WINNER

Alicia Keys ft. Lucky Daye – “Stay”
Chlöe ft. Chris Brown – “How Does It Feel”
Metro Boomin with The Weeknd, 21 Savage, and Diddy – “Creepin' (Remix)”
SZA – “Shirt” -- WINNER
Toosii – “Favorite Song”
Yung Bleu & Nicki Minaj – “Love In The Way”