Game of Thrones wins “Best Show” at MTV Movie & TV Awards

Game of Thrones might have only ended a month ago, but it’s already picking up the gold hardware, starting with a cup of golden popcorn at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, where it won in the “Best Show” category.

Weirdly, star Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm) was presented with the award on the red carpet before the show even started. Maybe because it was a foregone conclusion?

Anderson appeared quite surprised, and accepted the award on behalf of the show’s enormous cast and crew. “A lot of amazing people work on Game of Thrones, so I feel weird being the one to hold this, but I’ve always wanted to hold one of these,” he said. “So, congratulations to everybody, all the people I love on the show, who have worked incredibly hard, you will get to touch this. Cast and crew, and everybody who’s amazing, we did it!”

How many of those Golden Popcorn statues do they make? Do they just go to the principal cast and crew members, or does everyone get one? If I served sandwiches during the Battle of Winterfell, I know I’d want one.

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Here’s what the show was up against:

Best show

• Big Mouth
• Game of Thrones
• Riverdale
• Schitt’s Creek
• The Haunting of Hill House

Thrones was nominated in three other categories, including Best Fight (Arya against the White Walkers), Best Hero (Arya Stark, having quite a night), and Best Performance in a Show (Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen). However, the Thrones gang lost in all three cases. Find out to who below, together with some of the other notable awards:

Best Performance In A Show 

• Elisabeth Moss (June Osborne/Offred) — The Handmaid’s Tale
• Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) — Game Of Thrones
• Gina Rodriguez (Jane Villanueva) — Jane The Virgin
• Kiernan Shipka (Sabrina Spellman) — Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

Best Hero

• Brie Larson (Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel) — Captain Marvel
• John David Washington (Ron Stallworth) — BlacKkKlansman
• Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) — Game Of Thrones
• Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man) — Avengers: Endgame
• Zachary Levi (Billy Batson/Shazam) — Shazam!

Best Fight

• Avengers: Endgame — Captain America vs. Thanos
• Captain Marvel — Captain Marvel vs. Minn-Erva
• Game of Thrones — Arya Stark vs. the White Walkers
• RBG — Ruth Bader Ginsburg vs. Inequality
• WWE Wrestlemania — Becky Lynch vs. Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair

Best Movie

• Avengers: Endgame
• BlacKkKlansman
• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
• To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
• Us

Best Performance In A Movie 

• Amandla Stenberg (Starr Carter) — The Hate U Give
• Lady Gaga (Ally) — A Star Is Born
• Lupita Nyong’o (Red) — Us
• Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury) — Bohemian Rhapsody
• Sandra Bullock (Malorie) — Bird Box

Best Villain

• Jodie Comer (Villanelle) — Killing Eve
• Joseph Fiennes (Commander Fred Waterford) — The Handmaid’s Tale
• Josh Brolin (Thanos) — Avengers: Endgame
• Lupita Nyong’o (Red) — Us
• Penn Badgley (Joe Goldberg) — You

Best Kiss

• Camila Mendes & Charles Melton (Veronica Lodge & Reggie Mantle) — Riverdale
• Jason Momoa & Amber Heard (Aquaman & Mera) — Aquaman
• Ncuti Gatwa & Connor Swindells (Eric Effiong & Adam Groff) — Sex Education
• Noah Centineo & Lana Condor (Peter Kavinsky & Lara Jean) — To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
• Tom Hardy & Michelle Williams (Eddie Brock/Venom & Anne Weying) — Venom

Most Meme-Able Moment

• Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club — The Lilo Dance
• Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood — Ray J’s Hat
• RBG — The Notorious RBG
• RuPaul’s Drag Race — Asia O’Hara’s butterfly finale fail
• The Bachelor — Colton Underwood jumps the fence

Unlike with most award shows, fans vote on the MTV Movie & TV Awards directly. Kudos to Thrones for scoring the win!

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