Avengers ruled the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2019 as Marvel’s latest offering Endgame was named the Best Movie with Robert Downey Jr winning the title of Best Hero as IronMan at the ceremony.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Josh Brolin’s reprisal as supervillain Thanos won him the Best Villain award.
Brie Larson took home the golden popcorn for the Best Fight sequence between her Captain Marvel and Minn-Erva (played by Gemma Chan) in MCU’s first female stand-alone. She walked on stage arm-in-arm with her stunt doubles for the film, Jonna Bennett and Renae Moneymaker.
Despite receiving mixed reviews from both fans and critics for its season finale, HBO’s Game of Thrones was adjudged the Best Show.
Dwayne Johnson was honoured with the Generation Award, while Jada Pinkett Smith accepted the Trailblazer Award.
It was Pinkett Smith’s “Girls Trip” co-star Tiffany Haddish who presented the actor, philanthropist and Red Table Talk host with the Trailblazer Award.
Accompanied by her son actor-singer Jaden Smith, she said she was unsure if she deserved the trailblazing award “quite yet”.
Lady Gaga, who made her feature film debut with A Star is Born, won Best Performance in a Movie award. The film’s song Shallow, which Gaga sang with director-co-star Bradley Cooper for the movie, won the Best Musical Moment.
For her role in the critically-acclaimed dystopian drama The Handsmaid’s Tale, Elisabeth Moss won Best Performance in a Show. Moss gave a shout-out to fellow nominees — Emilia Clarke, Gina Rodriguez and Kiernan Shipka — the “bada** women” ruling the small screen today.
Sandra Bullock accepted the Most Frightened Performance award for her performance in Netflix’s acclaimed thriller Bird Box in a heartfelt and humorous message to her children. “Even though you can’t see it until you’re 21 because apparently a movie about being a mommy is a horror film, you will know when you see it that there isn’t anything I would do for you,” Bullock said.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before stars Lana Condor and Noah Centineo shared the Best Kiss award on behalf of their on-screen characters – Peter Kavinsky and Lara Jean.
Centineo took home award for Breakthrough Performance in the Netflix teenage rom-com.
Daniel Levy from Schitt’s Creek won the Best Comedic Performance. Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was named Best Real-Life Hero for “RBG’, a documentary on her life.
Surviving R Kelly, a six-part Lifetime documentary detailing sexual abuse allegations against American singer Robert “R” Kelly, was named Best Documentary.
At the show, Melissa McCarthy, Moss, Aubrey Plaza, Dave Bautista, David Spade and Kumail Nanjiani served as presenters.
The stage was set on fire with performances by rapper Lizzo, DJ-producer Martin Garrix, Macklemore, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy Singer, songwriter and producer Bazzi performed his hit song Paradise.
Shazam! star Zachary Levi hosted the ceremony. (PTI)
