It also scored two big wins, one for Best Movie and one for Emma Watson as Belle in the Best Actor in a Movie category.
The award came about after the cable network made a decision to eliminate gender classifications for its Movie & TV Awards, which were handed out Sunday night in Los Angeles. One of the primary standouts of the night was when Millie Bobby Brown, renowned for her role as Eleven on Stranger Things, received her award for winning the best actor in a show.
British darling Emma Watson made history yesterday as she bagged the first-ever gender-neutral acting honour at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Emma Watson got quite a thrill out of being the inaugural victor of MTV's best actor in a movie award.
Referencing Stranger Things' victory in the Show of the Year category, Brown additionally expressed gratitude for viewers of the program. "We wouldn't be here without you guys, so we might not say it enough, we love you and thank you everyone who voted". "But to me, it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes".
It makes sense that Watson was given the first gender neutral award of the night, as the actress has always been an advocate for feminism and gender equality.
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In accepting her gilded popcorn trophy from "Billions" actor Asia Kate Dillon, who identifies as gender non-binary, Watson acknowledged the historic nature of the award, USA Today and other outlets reported.
"I think I'm being given this award because of who Belle is and what she represents", she explained. And I want to thank every single person who voted for me. The award went to "Hidden Figures", the story of three black female NASA mathematicians.
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Moonlight's Jharrel Jerome and Ashton Sanders won the best kiss award beating La La Land's Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Anyone could be nominated under the new "Best Actor" categories for television and film.
In the music world, while the Brit Awards offer the more traditional best male and best female prizes for both British and worldwide artists, across the pond at the Grammys, no such thing exists.
Trevor Noah of Comedy Central's satirical news programme The Daily Show was named Best Host.
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