Put these “Golden Popcorn” statues again in storage. The MTV Film & TV Awards have been put “on pause” this 12 months, and “will return with a reimagined format in 2025,” in keeping with a spokesperson.
The present, initially dubbed the MTV Film Awards, was a yearly fixture from 1992 to 2019, however has misplaced some momentum lately. The present wasn’t held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a substitute, MTV aired MTV Film & TV Awards: Best of All Time, a clip present hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, which featured highlights from previous ceremonies.
The present happened in 2021 and 2022, however the 2023 present was stymied by the Writers Guild of America strike. Drew Barrymore was set to host that 12 months’s present. Barrymore has achieved success in each films and TV and would have been a great host, however when the WGA went on strike on Might 2, 2023 – simply 5 days earlier than the present was set to happen at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. – Barrymore and many of the deliberate company dropped out. Because of this, the normal ceremony didn’t happen. It was changed by a pre-recorded digital ceremony with no host.
The MTV Film & TV Awards have been as soon as a scorching pop-culture present. Hosts within the present’s prime included such A-list stars as Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Ben Stiller, Mike Myers, Jimmy Fallon and Sarah Jessica Parker, the latter on the peak of her Intercourse and the Metropolis fame. However the present has misplaced some attract lately.
The 2 post-pandemic exhibits that made it to air have been co-hosted by Leslie Jones and Nikki Glaser, adopted by Hudgens and Tayshia Adams. No shade to those performers, however they’re not Eddie Murphy or Will Smith.
This isn’t the primary time MTV has pulled the plug on a present. The 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards have been scheduled to happen on Nov. 5, 2023 on the Paris Nord Villepinte in Paris. The ceremony was cancelled on Oct. 19 because of the Israel–Hamas battle, turning into the primary EMAs to be cancelled in its 30-year historical past. Regardless of that setback, voting remained open till Oct. 31. The profitable artists have been revealed on Nov. 5.
