The Ryan Coogler-directed movie is up for seven nominations, including Best Movie and Best On-Screen Team.
- May 4, 2018
AceShowbiz - "Black Panther" and "Stranger Things" are set for a big night at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards after dominating the nominations on Thursday, May 3. The Marvel blockbuster has snagged seven nods, including Best Movie and Best On-Screen Team, while the cult TV series picked up six.
"Black Panther" will go head-to-head with another Marvel movie, "Avengers: Infinity War", "Girls Trip", "It", and "Wonder Woman" for the Best Movie title, while "Stranger Things" is up against "13 Reasons Why", "Game of Thrones", "Grown-ish", and "Riverdale" for Best Show.
"Girls Trip" star Tiffany Haddish, who received nods for the Best Comedic Performance and Scene Stealer, will host the ceremony on 18 June at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.
The full list of nominees is:
Best Movie:
Best Show:
Best Performance in a Movie:
- Chadwick Boseman ("Black Panther")
- Timothee Chalamet ("Call Me by Your Name")
- Ansel Elgort ("Baby Driver")
- Daisy Ridley ("Star Wars: The Last Jedi")
- Saoirse Ronan ("Lady Bird")
Best Performance in a Show:
- Millie Bobby Brown ("Stranger Things")
- Darren Criss ("The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story")
- Katherine Langford ("13 Reasons Why")
- Issa Rae ("Insecure")
- Maisie Williams ("Game of Thrones")
Best Hero:
- Chadwick Boseman ("Black Panther")
- Emilia Clarke ("Game of Thrones")
- Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman")
- Grant Gustin ("The Flash")
- Daisy Ridley ("Star Wars: The Last Jedi")
Best Villain:
- Josh Brolin ("Avengers: Infinity War")
- Adam Driver ("Star Wars: The Last Jedi")
- Michael B. Jordan ("Black Panther")
- Aubrey Plaza ("Legion")
- Bill Skarsgard ("It")
Best Kiss:
- "Jane the Virgin" (Gina Rodriguez & Justin Baldoni)
- "Love, Simon" (Nick Robinson & Keiynan Lonsdale)
- "Ready Player One" (Olivia Cooke & Tye Sheridan)
- "Riverdale" (KJ Apa & Camila Mendes)
- "Stranger Things" (Finn Wolfhard & Millie Bobby Brown)
Most Frightened Performance:
- Talitha Bateman ("Annabelle: Creation")
- Emily Blunt ("A Quiet Place")
- Sophia Lillis ("It")
- Cristin Milioti ("Black Mirror")
- Noah Schnapp ("Stranger Things")
Best On-Screen Team:
- "Black Panther" (Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright)
- "It" (Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Lieberher, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Chosen Jacobs)
- "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas)
- "Ready Player One" (Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Lena Waithe)
- "Stranger Things" (Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink)
Best Comedic Performance:
- Jack Black ("Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle")
- Tiffany Haddish ("Girls Trip")
- Dan Levy ("Schitt's Creek")
- Kate McKinnon ("Saturday Night Live")
- Amy Schumer ("I Feel Pretty")
Scene Stealer:
- Tiffany Haddish ("Girls Trip")
- Dacre Montgomery ("Stranger Things")
- Madelaine Petsch ("Riverdale")
- Taika Waititi ("Thor: Ragnarok")
- Letitia Wright ("Black Panther")
Best Fight:
- "Atomic Blonde" (Charlize Theron vs. Daniel Hargrave & Greg Rementer)
- "Avengers: Infinity War" (Scarlett Johansson, Danai Gurira, Elizabeth Olsen vs. Carrie Coon)
- "Black Panther" (Chadwick Boseman vs. Winston Duke)
- "Thor: Ragnarok" (Mark Ruffalo vs. Chris Hemsworth)
- "Wonder Woman" (Gal Gadot vs. German Soldiers)
Best Music Documentary:
- "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: The Bad Boy Story"
- "Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated"
- "Gaga: Five Foot Two"
- "Jay-Z's 'Footnotes for 4:44'"
- "The Defiant Ones"
Best Reality Series:
- "Keeping Up With the Kardashians"
- "Love & Hip Hop"
- "Real Housewives"
- "RuPaul's Drag Race"
- "Vanderpump Rules"