{"id":51964,"date":"2017-04-07T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/moonlight-this-is-everything-ellen-degeneres-and-more-pick-up-mtv-movie-and-tv-awards-nominations\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:01:00","slug":"moonlight-this-is-everything-ellen-degeneres-and-more-pick-up-mtv-movie-and-tv-awards-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/moonlight-this-is-everything-ellen-degeneres-and-more-pick-up-mtv-movie-and-tv-awards-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"'Moonlight,' 'This Is Everything,' Ellen DeGeneres and more pick up MTV Movie and TV Awards nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"

'Moonlight,' 'This Is Everything,' Ellen DeGeneres and more pick up MTV Movie and TV Awards nominations<\/b><\/p>\n

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Yesterday, the nominees for MTV’s inaugural Movie and TV Awards were announced<\/a>, and included nods for several LGBTQ-inclusive films and series. This new show is the updated version of the long-running MTV Movie Awards, and in addition to introducing new TV categories, there are a few other format changes. The acting categories will include both film and television actors competing in the same categories, and the awards have also moved to non-gendered categories. MTV has added five new awards\u00a0with two that were created specifically to speak to the current societal climate: Best American Story will be\u00a0“awarded to the show or film that shows America at its best,\u00a0open and diverse,” and the Best Fight Against the System award will be given to “the film or show whose characters best exemplify fighting against a system that tries to keep them down.”<\/p>\n

GLAAD Media Award-recipient\u00a0and Oscars’ Best Picture-winner\u00a0Moonlight <\/em>picked up\u00a0three nominations, including one in the new Best American Story category. The film is also nominated in Best Kiss for the moment between Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome who play teenage<\/a> Chiron and Kevin, and in\u00a0Tearjerker for a scene in the film’s third act where Chiron’s (Trevante Rhodes) mother, Paula (Naomie Harris), tells him she loves him and acknowledges how she has hurt him. GLAAD Media Award-recipient Transparent <\/em><\/a>and Jane the Virgin<\/em> are nominated alongside Moonlight<\/em> in Best American Story.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Best Documentary category this year included a nomination\u00a0for I Am Not Your Negro,<\/i>\u00a0a documentary about the life and writing of James Baldwin, the gay<\/a> African American civil rights activist and playwright. Also nominated was\u00a0This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous<\/em>, a documentary about the life of transgender model and YouTube star GiGi Gorgeous. Disney’s live<\/a>-action Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, which established that LeFou is a canonically gay<\/a> character, is nominated in Movie of the Year. Josh Gad (LeFou) is also nominated in Best Duo with his co-star, out actor Luke Evans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ellen DeGeneres is nominated in Best Host for The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/em>. LGBTQ-inclusive series This Is Us <\/em>and Game of Thrones<\/em> are nominated in Show of the Year, and out actor Kristian Nairn is nominated in Tearjerker for his Game of Thrones<\/em>‘ character’s final scene. The Voice<\/em> is nominated in Best Reality Competition.\u00a0Loving<\/em>, the story of the U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down the ban on interracial marriages and which became\u00a0the foundational argument for winning marriage equality, and Mr. Robot <\/em>are nominated in Best Fight Against the System.<\/p>\n

The MTV Movie and TV Awards, hosted by Adam Devine, air Sunday May 7th on MTV at 8pm ET\/5pm PT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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