MTV Movie and TV Awards 2018 Betting Odds
–This is the 27th year for the awards and the second to combine movie and TV awards
–The MTV Awards got a good deal of attention last year by removing gender distinctions in the categories.
–The MTV Movie & TV Awards will be held on June 18, 2018.
The MTV Movie and TV Awards was formerly known as the ‘MTV Movie Awards’ but it was updated to include television shows last year. The ‘Movie’ part of the awards has soldiered on for 27 years now. The addition of television shows is partially a reflection of changing viewership trends and the high quality of many television programs. At some point, it’ll be tough to make a distinction between the two once the analog broadcast industry dies off and all visual entertainment is available ‘on demand’. It’s also a reflection of MTV’s ownership–they’re owned by Viacom who has a major financial connection to the TV industry. Viacom’s majority owner is National Amusements (80%) which also owns 80% of CBS after it was spun off in 2006. National Amusements’ majority owner is Sumner Redstone–he’s a longtime power player in the media business and also owns Paramount Pictures and a bunch of other things under the Viacom umbrella.
The MTV Movie and TV Awards will air live once again this year, a departure from the 2016 show which was pre-taped. Tiffany Haddish will be the host of this year’s show and is also nominated for two awards (Best Comedic Performance and the ‘Scene Stealer’ category). The nominees for the Awards are chosen by MTV ‘suits’ with the winner determined by viewer voting. Viewers are able to vote daily though there’s no transparency about the vote tabulation process. That always raises the concern that the outcome might be predetermined and particularly since MTV’s ownership hierarchy has a vested interest in making sure that certain shows and films ‘get over’. Chris Pratt will receive the ‘Generation Award’ which is essentially the MTV version of the ‘lifetime achievement award’.
SHAKE UP IN AWARD CATEGORIES
The MTV Movie and TV Awards got a lot of press last year for having eliminated the gender specific term ‘actress’ from their categories. Men and women are both eligible for what was called the ‘Best Actor’ categories last year, but these categories have been renamed to ‘Best Performance’ this year. So far, there’s not been a mad rush by Hollywood to jump on the MTV ‘gender neutral’ bandwagon. On one hand, the change makes sense just like at some point the term ‘comedienne’ for ‘female comedian’ fell out of usage. Both genders are referred to now as ‘comedians’. On the other hand, actors–male and female–are a very egocentric sort. The change also means fewer awards to go around and that might become an issue. Additionally, change happens slowly at the upper echelons of the entertainment industry so it’s not a huge surprise that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and similar groups haven’t followed along.
There’s also been a few other changes in the MTV Movie & TV Awards categories. ‘Best Duo’ has become ‘Best On-Screen Team’. ‘Best Documentary’ has morphed into ‘Best Music Documentary’. The ‘Best Tearjerker’ category has been eliminated along with ‘Best American Story’, ‘Next Generation’ and ‘Best Host’. The ‘Best Reality Competition’ show has been reworked into ‘Best Reality Series or Franchise’. A category for ‘Most Frightened Performance’ has been added along with a new category called ‘Scene Stealer’. The most telling change is the neutering of a category called ‘Best Fight Against the System’ to merely ‘Best Fight’. It apparently didn’t dawn on the awards producers last year but MTV now *is* ‘the system’ and has been for many years.
Here’s the official SPORTS BETTING EXPERTS odds for the MTV Movie and TV Awards:
MTV MOVIE AND TV AWARDS 2018 BETTING ODDS
BEST MOVIE
Black Panther: -200
Wonder Woman: +350
Avengers: Infinity War: +500
It Movie: +750
Girls Trip: +1000
BEST SHOW
Stranger Things: -250
Game of Thrones: +450
Riverdale: +600
13 Reasons Why: +750
Grown-ish: +900
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A MOVIE
Chadwick Boseman/Black Panther: -250
Timothee Chalamet/Call Me By Your Name: +300
Daisy Ridley/Star Wars: The Last Jedi: +750
Ansel Elgort/Baby Driver: +1000
Saoirse Ronan/Lady Bird: +1000
BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SHOW
Millie Bobby Brown/Stranger Things: -150
Darren Criss/Assassination of Gianni Versace: +350
Maisie Williams/Game of Thrones: +450
Katherine Langford/13 Reasons Why: +600
Issa Rae/Insecure: +750
BEST HERO
Gal Gadot/Wonder Woman: -175
Chadwick Boseman/Black Panther: +350
Daisy Ridley/Star Wars: The Last Jedi: +450
Emilia Clark/Game of Thrones: +700
Grant Gustin/The Flash: +1000
BEST VILLAIN
Michael B. Jordan/Black Panther: -200
Josh Brolin/Avengers: Infinity War: +350
Bill Skarsgard/It: +500
Aubrey Plaza/Legion: +900
Adam Driver/Star Wars: The Last Jedi: +900
BEST KISS
Love, Simon: -200
Stranger Things: +350
Riverdale: +500
Jane the Virgin: +900
Ready Player One: +900
MOST FRIGHTENED PERFORMANCE
Emily Blunt/A Quiet Place: -150
Noah Schnapp/Stranger Things: +300
Christin Milloti/Black Mirror: +500
Sophia Lillis/It: +750
Talitha Bateman/Annabelle: Creation: +750
BEST ON-SCREEN TEAM
Black Panther: -200
Stranger Things: +300
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: +750
It: +750
Ready Player One: +900
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Tiffany Haddish/Girls Trip: -200
Jack Black/Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: +500
Amy Schumer/I Feel Pretty: +500
Kate McKinnon/Saturday Night Live: +700
Dan Levy/Schitt’s Creek: +700
SCENE STEALER
Letitia Wright/Black Panther: +120
Tiffany Haddish/Girls Trip: +200
Madelaine Petsch/Riverdale: +450
Taika Waititi/Thor: Ragnarok: +600
Dacre Montgomery/Stranger Things: +600
BEST FIGHT
Avengers: Infinity War: -125
Black Panther: +250
Wonder Woman: +500
Atomic Blonde: +700
Thor: Ragnarok: +700
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story: +150
The Defiant Ones: +300
Gaga: Give Foot Two: +300
Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated: +450
Jay-Z’s “Footnotes for 4:44”: +450
BEST REALITY SERIES OR FRANCHISE
RuPaul’s Drag Race: +150
Keeping Up with the Kardashians: +300
Vanderpump Rules: +300
Love & Hip Hop: +450
The Real Housewives: +450