A host-less, pre-taped and muted MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday became the first big awards show to air during the screenwriters' strike.
, offering a commercial-heavy broadcast featuring lots of past recycled live clips. Many awards produced no winner's response.
Tom Cruise took home the best performance in a movie for"Top Gun: Maverick," beating Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Michael B. Jordan and Keke Palmer. In a pre-taped response, Cruise was seen piloting a jet and thanking the fans, while also plugging his next"Mission: Impossible" film. Best comedic performance went to Adam Sandler, for"Murder Mystery 2," and"Scream VI" won for best fight, with Ghostface again thanking the voters:"It's about time someone finally appreciated my work."— later winning best host — and the show's red carpet was rolled up. Faced with a picket from the guild, MTV scrapped the live event entirely.
"I stand here before you tonight side by side with my sisters and brothers from the WGA," she said. Coolidge also later won for best frightened performance for"The White Lotus."
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