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‘Love, Simon’ wins Best Kiss at MTV Movie & TV Awards

Lena Waithe, Lady Gaga also made appearances

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Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale in ‘Love, Simon’ (Screenshot via YouTube)

The 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards was filled with LGBT representation including a Best Kiss win for “Love, Simon” and a Trailblazer Award honor given to Lena Waithe at the ceremony which aired on Monday night.

The cast of “13 Reasons Why” announced the winner for Best Kiss was Nick Robinson and Keiynan Lonsdale’s kiss at the end of the gay teen romance. This is the second year in a row that a same-sex kiss won the award. In 2017,  Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jermone’s kiss in “Moonlight” received the honor.

Lonsdale, 26, accepted the award as Robinson was unable to make the show.

“I just want to say to every kid, you can live your dreams and wear dresses,” Lonsdale told the crowd. “You can live your dreams and kiss the one that you love, no matter what gender they are. You can live your dreams and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams and you can be yourself.”

Lonsdale came out as bisexual while filming the movie in 2017.

Lena Waithe was honored with the Trailblazer Award for her achievements in television. In 2017, Waithe became the first woman of color to win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for writing the “Master of None” episode “Thanksgiving.” The episode tackled her character Denise’s coming out to her family over a series of Thanksgivings. She is also the creator and executive producer of the Showtime drama “The Chi,” which follows the lives of people in the South Side of Chicago.

In her acceptance speech, the 34-year-old credited Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary “Paris Is Burning,” which chronicled the ’80s ball culture in New York City, for paving the way in culture.

“Every time someone says shade or talks about reading or just decides to serve face for no reason at all, please look up to the sky and give thanks because we owe them a huge debt of gratitude,” Waithe says. “They strutted through a brick wall so we wouldn’t have to.”

Other highlights of the night included Chris Pratt receiving the Generation Award and Tiffany Haddish hosting the ceremony with gags like wearing Meghan Markle’s wedding dress and sporting a pregnant belly as a nod to Cardi B’s “Saturday Night Live” performance.

Lady Gaga also made an appearance to accept the award for Best Music Documentary for her documentary “Five Foot Two” and to present the award for Best Movie.

“I love you little monsters so much! And, Happy Pride Month,” Lady Gaga says. “I just have one problem, I recently found out that I am actually five-foot-three and three quarters … I am so, so sorry, but thank you so much.”

She announced the Best Movie winner with flair yelling “Black mother f—– Panther.'”

See the full list of winners below.

BEST MOVIE – “Black Panther”
BEST SHOW – “Stranger Things”
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MOVIE – Chadwick Boseman in “Black Panther”
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHOW – Millie Bobby Brown in “Stranger Things”
BEST HERO – Chadwick Boseman (T’Challa/Black Panther) in “Black Panther”
BEST VILLAIN – Michael B. Jordan (N’Jadaka/Erik Killmonger) in “Black Panther”
BEST KISS – Love, Simon – Nick Robinson (Simon) and Keiynan Lonsdale (Bram)

MOST FRIGHTENED PERFORMANCE – Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) – “Stranger Things”
BEST ON-SCREEN TEAM – “It” – Finn Wolfhard (Richie), Sophia Lillis (Beverly), Jaeden Lieberher (Bill), Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie), Wyatt Oleff (Stanley), Jeremy Ray Taylor (Ben), Chosen Jacobs (Mike)
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE – Tiffany Haddish – “Girls Trip”
SCENE STEALER – Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl Blossom) – “Riverdale”
BEST FIGHT – “Wonder Woman” – Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) vs. German Soldiers
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY – “Gaga: Five Foot Two”
BEST REALITY SERIES/FRANCHISE – “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT – “Stranger Things” (Mike and Eleven dance to “Every Breath You Take”)

 

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Queer highlights of the 2026 Critics Choice Awards: Aunt Gladys, that ‘Heated Rivalry’ shoutout and more

Amy Madigan’s win in the supporting actress category puts her in serious contention to win the Oscar for ‘Weapons’

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From Chelsea Handler shouting out Heated Rivalry in her opening monologue to Amy Madigan proving that horror performances can (and should) be taken seriously, the Critics Choice Awards provided plenty of iconic moments for queer movie fans to celebrate on the long road to Oscar night.

Handler kicked off the ceremony by recapping the biggest moments in pop culture last year, from Wicked: For Good to Sinners. She also made room to joke about the surprise hit TV sensation on everyone’s minds: “Shoutout to Heated Rivalry. Everyone loves it! Gay men love it, women love it, straight men who say they aren’t gay but work out at Equinox love it!”

The back-to-back wins for Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein and Amy Madigan in Weapons are notable, given the horror bias that awards voters typically have. Aunt Gladys instantly became a pop culture phenomenon within the LGBTQ+ community when Zach Cregger’s hit horror comedy released in August, but the thought that Madigan could be a serious awards contender for such a fun, out-there performance seemed improbable to most months ago. Now, considering the sheer amount of critics’ attention she’s received over the past month, there’s no denying she’s in the running for the Oscar.

“I really wasn’t expecting all of this because I thought people would like the movie, and I thought people would dig Gladys, but you love Gladys! I mean, it’s crazy,” Madigan said during her acceptance speech. “I get [sent] makeup tutorials and paintings. I even got one weird thing about how she’s a sex icon also, which I didn’t go too deep into that one.”

Over on the TV side, Rhea Seehorn won in the incredibly competitive best actress in a drama series category for her acclaimed performance as Carol in Pluribus, beating out the likes of Emmy winner Britt Lower for Severance, Carrie Coon for The White Lotus, and Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us. Pluribus, which was created by Breaking Bad’s showrunner Vince Gilligan, has been celebrated by audiences for its rich exploration of queer trauma and conversion therapy.

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As Oscar fans speculate on what these Critics Choice wins mean for future ceremonies, we have next week’s Golden Globes ceremony to look forward to on Jan. 11.

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