MTV Movie & TV Awards Put 'On Pause' For 2024

Sydney Sweeney, winner of the Best Show, Best Fight, and Here For The Hookup awards for ‘Euphoria’, poses backstage during the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 05, 2022 in Santa Monica, California.

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This year celebs won’t be seeing those "Golden Popcorn" statues. The MTV Movie & TV Awards have been put "on pause" this year. Billboard reported that the award show "will return with a reimagined format in 2025."

The annual MTV Movie Awards has been running live from 1992 to 2019 but has lost momentum in recent years. Last year, the show that ran on May 7 was not broadcast live as planned following the host Drew Barrymore’s exit. She was set to host but when the Writers Guild of America strike took place, just a few days before the show, Barrymore and the planned guests dropped out.

"As we carefully navigate how best to deliver the fan first awards' show we envisioned that our team has worked so hard to create," said executive producer Bruce Gillmer in a statement to E! News May 5, "we're pivoting away from a live event that still enables us to produce a memorable night full of exclusive sneak peaks, irreverent categories our audience has come to expect, and countless moments that will both surprise and delight as we honor the best of film and TV over the past year.

In 2020, the show wasn’t held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, MTV aired MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time, a clip show hosted by Vanessa Hudgens. It featured highlights from past ceremonies.

The award show hasn’t had the best of luck when you think about it. The 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards were scheduled to take place on Nov. 5, 2023, at the Paris Nord Villepinte in Paris. The ceremony was canceled on Oct. 19 due to the Israel–Hamas war, becoming the first EMAs to be canceled in its 30-year history. Despite that setback, voting remained open until Oct. 31. The winning artists were revealed on Nov. 5.

Many People Not Surprised by MTV’s Latest Move

Of course, a Reddit thread was dedicated to the news of the MTV Awards being postponed. “Damn, now how am I gonna know who had the best kiss,” someone said. Another person asked a question that many on the thread brought up, “Can they just scrap MTV finally?” Many people spoke on how the network has “strayed away from its roots.”

The MTV Movie & TV Awards were once a pop-culture staple. Previous hosts of the show included such A-list stars as Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Ben Stiller, Mike Myers, Jimmy Fallon, and Sarah Jessica Parker, the latter at the height of her Sex and the City fame.

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