‘WandaVision,’ ‘Emily in Paris,’ ‘The Boys’ Lead MTV Movie & TV Awards Nominations

Sacha Baron Cohen a comedic genius, but now he will officially wear the crown. MTV announced Thursday that the star will receive the Comedic Genius Award at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Sacha Baron Cohen will be honoured with the Comedic Genius Award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2021, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The British actor and comedian will become only the fourth person to take home the prize, following Will Ferrell in 2013, Kevin Hart in 2015 and Melissa McCarthy in 2016.

Sacha Baron Cohen is set to receive the Comedic Genius Award at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards, MTV announced today.

Linda Chorney I’m not sure how the major labels feel about the Recording Academy finally eliminating the Nomination Review Committees (NRC), but I can promise you that independent artists like me are doing back flips, just like I did the day I was nominated for a Grammy in 2012 for best Americana album — the first in the category without a label, publicist or manager. How the fuck did that happen? There was no NRC in American Roots.

Nikki Glaser is set to host MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted. The inaugural event will celebrate the shocking, outrageous and memorable moments from reality TV shows and is set to air on Monday, May 17 at 9 p.m.

MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted has a host in Nikki Glaser.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Nikki Glaser will help MTV honor the year’s biggest moments in unscripted television as she hosts the inaugural MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted ceremony. The first-of-its kind event will air Monday, May 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT and comes a day after the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES -- Comedian-actor Leslie Jones will take the stage as host of the MTV Movie & TV Awards next month.The network announced Wednesday that Jones will host the awards, which will air live on May 16 from Los Angeles. The awards show celebrates the best moments in movies and television over the past year.The Emmy-nominated Leslie is currently the host and executive producer of ABC’s “Supermarket Sweep” and appeared in “Coming 2 America,” which is streaming on Amazon Prime.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe Weeknd is the leading nominee for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, with his 16 nods putting him ahead of DaBaby, with 11, the late Pop Smoke, with 10, and country singer Gabby Barrett, who’s up for nine.Meghan Thee Stallion was the second most named female artist in Thursday morning’s announcement, coming in with seven nominations. Bad Bunny, Drake, the late Juice WRLD and Chris Brown also have seven chances this year.

Leslie Jones is bringing her enthusiasm for film and TV to MTV as the host of the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards. The comedian is set to emcee the awards show, which is set to return live from Los Angeles next month after last year's edition of the show was replaced by a best-of special due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The host for the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards has been announced: it’s comedian and actress Leslie Jones! Leslie will take the stage on Sunday, May 16 at 9pm ET/PT to celebrate the best in television and movies over the last year.

2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards has found its host! Leslie Jones will emcee the main night of the awards show on May 16. Jones is currently nominated for her first MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Comedic Performance for her role in The comedian joins the ranks of previous MTV Movie & TV Awards hosts, including Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart and Adam DeVine.The host of the inaugural MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted ceremony, which will air on May 17, has yet to be announced.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeLeslie Jones has been tapped to host next month’s return of the MTV Movie & TV Awards. The former “Saturday Night Live” star, also currently host of ABC’s “Supermarket Sweep” game show, will emcee the live ceremony on Sunday, May 16.

Saturday Night Live alum and Supermarket Sweep host Leslie Jones will emcee the 2021 MTV Movie & MTV Awards live ceremony. The annual MTV awards, which will honor the biggest and best moments in movies and TV, will air on Sunday, May 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Naman Ramachandran Steve McQueen’s Amazon and BBC “Small Axe” anthology leads the nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) Television Awards and Craft Awards with 15 nods.Netflix’s “The Crown” has 10 nominations, while BBC and HBO’s “I May Destroy You” has eight.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe 2021 Webby Awards nominations, recognizing the year’s best websites, podcasts, apps and other internet services, have been announced.Variety received three nominations: general social, entertainment; general websites and mobile sites, entertainment; and video series and channels, entertainment, for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series.Winners of the 25th Annual Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), will be

WandaVision leads the nominees for the MTV Movie & TV Awards with a total of five noms. Close behind in the TV categories are Emily in Paris and The Boys, with four noms apiece, and Bridgerton and The Mandalorian, with three noms each.

The month of May is being lit up with star power as the MTV Movie & TV Awards 2021 is set for an epic two-night celebration! The upcoming award show will span May 16 and May 17. The first night will see the award show being telecast from the Palladium in Los Angeles, where the biggest and best in film and television will be honoured.The next night, Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted will have its inauguration as reality TV will be commemorated.

People are getting vaccinated, movie theaters are reopening and Oscar season is almost mercifully over. Yes, it’s time for the MTV Movie and TV Awards to return.