LOS ANGELES, United States —
Zendaya dominated the MTV Movie and TV Awards on Sunday as her teen drama “Euphoria”
and big-screen superhero blockbuster “Spider-Man: No Way Home” were voted best
show and best movie respectively.
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The light-hearted awards, taking place at the start
of the summer blockbuster season, are voted for online by the public, and
underscored the huge popularity of the 25-year-old former Disney child star.
Zendaya won best performance in a show for
“
Euphoria,” HBO’s often bleak and hard-hitting look at modern teen life, which
also won offbeat awards for “best fight” and a new award for the best on-screen
“hookup”.
The MTV awards have long bestowed tongue-in-cheek
“golden popcorn” statuettes for categories ranging from “best kiss” to “most
frightened performance”.
With obsessive fans encouraged to vote multiple
times for their favorites, the awards tend to recognize mainstream and
commercial hits with large and devoted social media followings.
Olivia Rodrigo accepts the Best Music Documentary award for ‘driving
home 2 u during the MTV Movie and TV Awards at the Barker Hangar in Santa
Monica, California, June 5, 2022.
It was little surprise therefore that “Spider-Man:
No Way Home” — by far the biggest box office hit since the pandemic — won best
movie.
The film has earned almost $1.9 billion worldwide,
and is the third-biggest hit for domestic theaters ever.
It also won best performance in a movie for
Zendaya’s on-screen and real-life boyfriend
Tom Holland, who plays the latest
incarnation of the web slinging superhero — although neither attended the
ceremony in Santa Monica, near Los Angeles, in person.
Lending some A-list stardust to the room,
Jennifer Lopez was presented a non-competitive “Generation Award”.
She thanked “true love” before telling her fiancé
Ben Affleck “and everybody at home” that she was on her way back for dinner.
Lopez also won best song, for “On My Way (Marry
Me),” while 19-year-old multiple Grammy winner Olivia Rodrigo won best music
documentary “Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u”.
Jack Black was also honored by MTV for his career on
Sunday. The 52-year-old attempted an energetic entrance, somersaulting on stage
to youthful cheers from the audience, before breathlessly calling for “a little
blast of oxygen.”
Daniel Radcliffe, who won best villain for adventure
comedy “The Lost City,” joked that his British accent had made his evil turn a
breeze.
“This is a universally recognized accent of pure
evil,” he said.
“This is a voice that would kick a puppy or not give
Oliver Twist more food.
“I really should thank my parents most for just
having the foresight, all those years ago, to have me be British, so that I
could grow up sounding naturally evil enough to one day win this award.”
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