'Get Out' leads MTV Movie & TV Award noms

With 'Best American Story' and non-gendered acting categories, MTV is killing it.
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MTV is shaking things up for the 2017 Movie & TV Awards.

For the first time ever, the awards show will include both television and movies, which means amazing matchups like Allison Williams vs The Demagorgon and Grant Gustin vs. Taraji P. Henson.

To accommodate the content expansion, MTV added new categories: Show of the Year, Best Host, Best Reality Competition, Tearjerker and Next Generation. And because MTV is apparently woke, that's not all:

In addition, MTV is introducing two new and timely categories: Best American Story, awarded to the show or film that showcases America at its best – open and diverse, as well as Best Fight Against the System (formerly Best Fight) awarded to the film or show whose characters best exemplify fighting against a system that tries to keep them down. The network has also replaced the former Best Actor and Best Actress categories with non-gendered Best Actor in a Movie and Best Actor in a Show. Two additional categories will be revealed closer to the show.

The complete nominations are as follows:

MOVIE OF THE YEAR (Presented by Toyota CH-R)  

Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)       Get Out (Universal Pictures)     Logan (20th Century Fox)         Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)       The Edge of Seventeen (STX Entertainment)      

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE  

Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out (Universal Pictures)   Emma Watson – Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)        Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen (STX Entertainment)    Hugh Jackman – Logan (20th Century Fox) James McAvoy – Split (Universal Pictures)       Taraji P. Henson – Hidden Figures (20th Century Fox)   

SHOW OF THE YEAR       

Atlanta (FX)    Game of Thrones (HBO)   Insecure (HBO)  Pretty Little Liars (Freeform)  Stranger Things (Netflix)       This Is Us (NBC)       

BEST ACTOR IN A SHOW    

Donald Glover – Atlanta (FX)    Emilia Clarke – Game of Thrones (HBO)    Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin (The CW)       Jeffrey Dean Morgan – The Walking Dead (AMC)     Mandy Moore – This Is Us (NBC)   Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things (Netflix) 

BEST KISS      

Ashton Sanders & Jharrel Jerome – Moonlight (A24)       Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling – La La Land (Summit Entertainment)   Emma Watson & Dan Stevens – Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)  Taraji P. Henson & Terrence Howard – Empire (FOX)       Zac Efron & Anna Kendrick – Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates (20th Century Fox)  

BEST VILLAIN   

Allison Williams – Get Out (Universal Pictures)  Demogorgon – Stranger Things (Netflix)  Jared Leto – Suicide Squad (Warner Bros. Pictures)      Jeffrey Dean Morgan – The Walking Dead (AMC)    Wes Bentley – American Horror Story (FX)       

BEST HOST      

Ellen DeGeneres – The Ellen DeGeneres Show (NBC)         John Oliver – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)  RuPaul – RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1/Logo)  Samantha Bee – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)      Trevor Noah – The Daily Show (Comedy Central)

BEST DOCUMENTARY       

13TH (Netflix)  I Am Not Your Negro (Magnolia Pictures)  O.J.: Made in America (ESPN Films)      This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (YouTube|Red) TIME: The Kalief Browder Story (Spike) 

BEST REALITY COMPETITION       

America’s Got Talent (NBC)      MasterChef Junior (FOX)  RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1/Logo)   The Bachelor (ABC)      The Voice (NBC)

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE       

Adam Devine – Workaholics (Comedy Central)      Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson – Broad City (Comedy Central)      Lil Rel Howery – Get Out (Universal Pictures)    Seth MacFarlane – Family Guy (FOX)      Seth Rogen – Sausage Party (Sony) Will Arnett – The LEGO Batman Movie (Warner Bros. Pictures)    

BEST HERO       

Felicity Jones – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)     Grant Gustin – The Flash (The CW)        Mike Colter – Luke Cage (Netflix)       Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things (Netflix)  Stephen Amell – Arrow (The CW)  Taraji P. Henson – Hidden Figures (20th Century Fox)   

TEARJERKER

Game of Thrones – Hodor’s (Kristian Nairn) Death (HBO)   Grey’s Anatomy – Meredith tells her children about Derek’s death (Ellen Pompeo) (ABC)        Me Before You – Will (Sam Claflin) tells Louisa (Emilia Clarke) he can’t stay with her (Warner Bros. Pictures)   Moonlight – Paula (Naomie Harris) tells Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) that she loves him (A24)       This Is Us – Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Randall (Lonnie Chavis) at karate (NBC)       

NEXT GENERATION

Chrissy Metz    Daniel Kaluuya Issa Rae         Riz Ahmed        Yara Shahidi   

BEST DUO        

Adam Levine & Blake Shelton – The Voice (NBC)    Daniel Kaluuya & Lil Rel Howery – Get Out (Universal Pictures)  Brian Tyree Henry & Lakeith Stanfield – Atlanta (FX)    Hugh Jackman & Dafne Keen – Logan (20th Century Fox)   Josh Gad & Luke Evans – Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)       Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg – Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party (VH1)     

BEST AMERICAN STORY     

Blackish (ABC)  Fresh Off the Boat (ABC)        Jane the Virgin (The CW)        Moonlight (A24) Transparent (Amazon)   

BEST FIGHT AGAINST THE SYSTEM   

Get Out (Universal Pictures)     Hidden Figures (20th Century Fox)       Loving (Focus Features) Luke Cage (Netflix)     Mr. Robot (USA)

The MTV Movie & TV Awards, hosted by Adam Devine, will air Sunday, May 7 at 8 P.M.

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Proma Khosla

Proma Khosla is a Senior Entertainment Reporter writing about all things TV, from ranking Bridgerton crushes to composer interviews and leading Mashable's stateside coverage of Bollywood and South Asian representation. You might also catch her hosting video explainers or on Mashable's TikTok and Reels, or tweeting silly thoughts from @promawhatup.

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