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Not all heroes wear capes — just look at Anthony Mackie. At the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday (May 16), the actor won Best Hero for his starring role as Sam Wilson, or Falcon. in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney+’s popular miniseries set in the Marvel Comics Universe. It’s the first golden popcorn win for the 42-year-old actor, whose decades-long career includes performances in film, television, and theater. In his acceptance speech, Mackie thanked the “incredible cast” of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, including his co-star Sebastian Stan, the Winter Soldier to his Falcon. Stan and Mackie are also up for Best Duo at this year’s MTV Movie & TV Awards. “Everything that has happened in the past year and a half has...

News of a second Borat movie — one partially filmed during COVID-19 lockdowns, no less — posed an intriguing opportunity for Sacha Baron Cohen to revisit his most iconic character in an age of heightened awareness of and sensitivity to how the apparatus of offensive and provocative humor works. It’s something the film seems to interrogate in its own way as it centers a female character (and an Oscar-nominated performance from Maria Bakalova) in its narrative, yielding fascinating results and making Baron Cohen’s new vision the end result of a thoughtful approach to comedy. It’s precisely this kind of dedication to the craft that landed Baron Cohen the Comedic Genius Award at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards. During a funny and quite meta acceptance video speech, the Aca...

Awards are here! The first-ever MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted invades MTV tonight (May 17), honoring the best and biggest moments in reality TV. And what better way to kick off said honors than by celebrating some of the format’s hugest stars of all time? During the special, which kicks off tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT — and follows last night’s MTV Movie & TV Awards — the Jersey Shore: Family Vacation cast will receive the inaugural Reality Royalty lifetime achievement award. The honor “recognizes the legacy of reality greatness,” according to a press release. For over a decade, the show’s cast has been at the center of some of the most memorable reality TV moments ever — an impact felt across the entire medium. The original Jersey Shore premiered in 2...

Zac Efron, Lindsay Lohan, and Robert Pattinson might be A-Listers now, but they all made a memorable first impression on-screen back in the day, announcing their arrival in Hollywood by winning the coveted golden popcorn for Breakthrough Performance at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. The last actor to win in the category was Noah Centineo in 2019 for his role in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, but on Sunday (May 16), it was time to crown a new star. In the end, it was Bridgerton dreamboat Regé-Jean Page who took home the award for his role as Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings, on the first season of the popular Netflix period piece. This year’s category was stacked, and Page beat out Antonia Gentry (Ginny & Georgia), Ashley Park (Emily in P...

The 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards kicked off on Sunday (May 16), with the first award of the evening going to Best Hero Anthony Mackie for his role in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. But let’s be real: It’s the bad guys we love to hate, and later in the evening, the golden popcorn for Best Villain went to WandaVision’s Kathryn Hahn. Hahn received the award for her performance as the malevolent and powerful witch Agatha Harkness, a nosy neighbor to Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda and Paul Bettany’s Vision in the Disney+ series. Hahn, who solidified her singular comedic vision in shows like Parks and Recreation and I Love Dick, accepted her trophy at the Palladium in Los Angeles. Agatha’s theme song “Agatha All Along” played as she accepted her award from the cast of&...

In a world divided by Kooks and Pogues, Sarah Cameron and John B’s romance proved that love can overcome all odds — even in the treacherous Outer Banks. Actors Madelyn Cline and Chase Stokes took home the golden popcorn for Best Kiss at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday (May 16) with their heart-stopping, rain-soaked smooch in the eponymous Netflix series. Cline and Stokes — who are a couple both on and off-screen — brought their sizzling chemistry to the show and bested some of this year’s hottest couples, including Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in Killing Eve, Lily Collins and Lucas Bravo in Emily in Paris, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Jaren Lewison in Never Have I Ever, and Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor in Bridgerton. Upon receiving the award, Stokes nearly dropped the Golden Po...

You know why we love Loki? He loves to lie. It’s also what Owen Wilson’s Agent Morbius is learning in a fateful, yet cryptic elevator ride with Tom Hiddleston‘s trickster god himself in an exclusive new clip from the upcoming Disney+ Marvel series, set to premiere in June. The minute-long amuse-bouche for the new show, which may or may not find Loki making his way through one or more alternate timelines, premiered during the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday night, May 16. The clip finds Agent Morbius and Loki both in the aforementioned elevator and just out of it, inside a massive compound where things may not exactly be what they seem. “Time passes differently here in the TVA,” Morbius says, prompting a question of clarification from Loki. “You&...

No, this is not an illusion; Marvel’s spellbinding sit-com WandaVision really won the Golden Popcorn for Best Show at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday (May 16)! In the final category of the night, the show that put the fictional city of Westview, New Jersey on the map beat out The Boys, Cobra Kai, Bridgerton, and Emily in Paris and solidified its place as everyone’s favorite television show with its fourth win of the night. Earlier in the evening, Kathryn Hahn won Best Villain for her portrayal of the bewitching antagonist Agatha Harkness, Elizabeth Olsen accepted the award for Best Performance in a Show for her poignant take on the grieving Wanda Maximoff, and the duo received the award for Best Fight. Hahn and Olsen took to the stage together to accept the award and than...

“Sh*t really got real” during the MTV Floribama Shore season finale: The entire production was forced to shut down because of COVID-19. “Someone’s test came back not qualified, so we’re just re-testing everyone to be doubly safe,” a producer told Aimee, Candace, Codi, Gus, Jeremiah, Kirk and Nilsa. Everyone was asked if they were experiencing symptoms (they all responded “no”), but the shock was palpable as the cast was awakened (with some loud knocking) so they could be given nasal swab tests. “Coronavirus is real out here, and it’s really out here impacting everybody’s lives,” Candace stated. “Including ours.” The Lake Havasu portion of the vacation was halted, and the group needed to quarantine alone for...