The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards made only a few explicit references to the ongoing writers’ strike, but the non-live event looked distinctly different.
The show featured many pre-recorded segments, speeches, and clips, both from upcoming movies and TV shows, and previous MTV Movie & TV Awards. Additionally, the show, award categories, and nominees and winners were announced via a voiceover, initially referring to the event as “the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards Special.”
Host Drew Barrymore, who announced Wednesday that she would not present this year’s awards in person in solidarity with the writers on strike, appeared in several pre-recorded sketches on top of the show, filmed before retiring from her role as emcee. live. .
Barrymore kicked off the show with a recorded introduction inspired by his 1999 film. I have never kisseddressed as Josie Geller in a 1980s “Josie Grossy”-era prom gown. Looking for her first kiss, Barrymore’s Josie appeared in scenes of NO, M3GAN, Wednesday, Top Gun: Maverick and the white lotusthe latter with 2023 MTV Comedic Genius Award winner Jennifer Coolidge.
The segment ended with her finally being kissed by Cocaine Bear, like “Like a Prayer” by Madonna, who also appears on I have never kissedgame.
After spending some time with the bear, Josie de Barrymore declares that she feels “so alive, like [she] she can do anything” and repeats her line from the movie: “I’m not Josie Grossy anymore.”
Barrymore also appeared in commercials for Cheetos popcorn, the show’s sponsor, and in a sketch report recorded for Barbie doll film, with Barrymore as “Skipper”, with the actress interceding in the trailer for the upcoming Greta Gerwig film. She also riffed on the viral video of her loving rain, inserting herself into a scene with Wednesday.
Winners like Pedro Pascal accepting multiple awards and cast vander pump rules they claimed their prizes using pre-recorded speeches. And Coolidge made the first mention of the strike on the show, some 30 minutes into the two-hour broadcast, in his pre-taped acceptance of the Comedic Genius honor.
“Almost all great comedies start with great writers,” Coolidge said in part, calling herself “a proud member of [SAG-AFTRA]»
“I stand here before you today, shoulder to shoulder with my sisters and brothers in the WGA who are now fighting for the rights of artists around the world,” he continued, before quoting Shakespeare in his show of support.
«I think of Shakespeare’s words when he said: ‘Art comes first. Well, I don’t want to put words in his mouth or anything, but I think what he really meant was: all.’”
Pascual me RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars the winner, Jinkx Monsoon, later expressed his solidarity with the writers in his pre-recorded speeches.
The program also featured clips of The Little Mermaid, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and next week yellow jackets.
On Friday night, the MTV Movie & TV Awards announced they were moving from a live event to a pre-recorded ceremony, which executive producer Bruce Gillmer said “still allows us to produce an unforgettable night filled with exclusive sneak peeks, irreverent categories that our Audiences are to look forward to countless moments that will surprise and delight as we honor the best movies and television shows of the past year.”
Gillmer began his statement by saying it was part of his team’s attempt to “navigate carefully on how best to deliver the first awards we envisioned and our team have worked so hard to create” to fans amid the writers’ strike for Hollywood, which began Tuesday after negotiating with studios and streamers, collapsed the night before.
By Friday afternoon, MTV was going to go ahead with a live show featuring a personal audience on Sunday night as nominees Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner and the hosts. vander pump rulesLala Kent, who appeared in a prerecorded speech, and the cast Joyrideincluding Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu all walked out of the event.
None of the stars previously announced by MTV as hosts of the Movie & TV Awards presented any of the awards on Sunday night’s show, and highly anticipated luminaries like Jamie Lee Curtis, Gal Gadot and Tiffany Haddish didn’t even appear on the broadcast. .
On Friday afternoon, the Writers Guild of America said it plans to picket the ceremony and then hold it at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
Shortly after news of the rally broke, MTV announced it was switching to a pre-taped awards show, and the WGA canceled its picket plans.
Still, writers have been picketing Los Angeles and New York since the strike, as the union seeks more transparency around broadcast audiences, higher minimum wages, and protection against mini-rooms and the use of AI in writing.
The Scream VI Y The last of us beat out the winners on Sunday night, taking home the awards for Best Picture and Best Show respectively, among other victories.
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2023-05-18 08:55:31
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