'Get Out' Leads MTV's Awesomely Diverse Movie & TV Awards Nominations

The inaugural MTV Movie & TV Awards has outdone its more established peer events by delivering one of the most diverse crops of nominees in living memory, with Jordan Peele's acclaimed horror Get Out leading the way with six nominations.

The film is nominated for Movie Of The Year, Best Villain and Best Fight Against The System (which replaces the 'Best Fight' category of years gone by), while its star, David Kaluuya, is also up for his first-ever major US awards in the categories of Best Actor in a Movie, Next Generation, and Best Duo (with Lil Rel Howery).

Big- and cyber-screen favourites Beauty & The Beast and Stranger Things aren't far behind, however, nabbing four nominations each. Oddly, one of the latter's nods — for Best Villain — goes to the character of the Demogorgon/The Monster itself, rather than the actor who played it (Mark Steger).

The acclaimed, award-winning Moonlight is up for Tearjerker, Best Kiss and Best American Story, while Donald Glover's acclaimed Atlanta and historical drama Hidden Figures have also picked up three nominations apiece, along with Game Of Thrones, Logan and This Is Us.

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Other shows and movies — and their cast members — that are up for awards include everything from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Marvel's Luke Cage and Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party to The Flash, Broad City, The Walking Dead and the Oscar-winning Suicide Squad.

Encouragingly, among other changes, the ceremony has also done away with the separate categories of Best Actor and Best Actress, replacing them with the non-gendered Best Actor In A Movie and Best Actor In A Show brackets.

The first-ever MTV Movie & TV Awards will be hosted by popular comedian and actor Adam Devine, of Workaholics fame, who himself is nominated for Best Comedic Performance for his work in that show.

The show screens live on MTV Australia from 10am on Monday 8 May.

See below for the full list of nominees.

2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards — Nominees

MOVIE OF THE YEAR

Beauty & 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 & 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 & 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)
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)
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 & The Beast (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg — Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party (VH1)