First 'Gender Free' Category'; Emma Watson wins Best Actor at MTV Awards
A new transition is made with MTV Awards 2017. From this year MTV is merging the male and female categories to neutral gender. The tradition of providing best actor and best actress awards has now taken a high road opting for a single-gender neutral acting category.
Emma Watson won the first ever non-gender MTV Movie Award over the strongest nominees like Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy. Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is a British actress, model, and activist. The 27 years old Emma was born in Paris, France and got trained as an actor at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts.
MTV built a new history implying the gender-free categories; a good decision indeed. What Emma has to say about it after becoming the first lucky person to win the award for her role as Belle in Beauty And The Beast.
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MTV goes gender neutral for Movie and TV Awards from 2017
MTV Movie and TV Awards held in Los Angeles on May 7, 2017, Sunday night made a historical departure after both men and women were included in the Best Actor category.
Emma Watson won the first MTV Movie Award of the night in the first ceremony that didn't separate nominees based on gender
Source: The Daily Mail
Gender non-binary actor Asia Kate Dillon did the honor announcing the nominees for the Golden Popcorn Trophy. Well, Asia was born a woman although she did not identify herself as male or female. While she was nominated for the Emmy Award, Asia raised the issues of gender division at award ceremonies.
Watson received her Best Actor In a Movie Award for Beauty And The Beast from 'non-binary' actor Asia Kate Dillon, who stars on Showtimes Billions
Source: The Daily Mail
MTV Awards, however, begun the genderless categories from this year but we still have other Awards ceremony who have the male and female category; The Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmys, and Baftas.
To an interesting note, the music awards ceremony and the Grammys always had non-gender categories. Now MTV Awards is also on the same list. Congrats on the new intellectual decision!
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Emma Watson wins first 'gender free' Best Actor In a Movie category at MTV Movie & TV Awards
Congratulations!! Emma for winning the Best Actor trophy at MTV Movie & TV Award.
Emma Watson won the first gender-less award of Best Actor category by MTV Movie & TV Award
Source: The Daily Mail
She received the award for her astounding role as Belle in Beauty And The Beast. While receiving the award, she praised the MTV for moving towards the gender-less award show saying;
'The first acting award in history that doesn't separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience,'
Emma Watson as Belle in the Beauty And The Beast
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The former Harry Potter went on saying;
'Acting is about the ability to put yourself into someone else's shoes and that doesn't have to be separated into two different categories.'
She said onstage as she accepted the award;
'Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits.'
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Here's the clip of her speech she gave after taking the award;
She gave a beautiful, dignified, well thought out speech. That's why we love Emma.
Emma who debuted as Hermione in the Harry Potter movie helped her receive the limelight. She is also a feminist campaigner and UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador. She added her view on her film saying;
"I think I'm being given this award because of who Belle is and what she represents. The villagers in our fairytale wanted to make Belle believe the world was smaller than the way that she saw it, with fewer opportunities for her. I love playing someone who didn't listen to any of that,"
Emma Watson cast as Hermoine in Harry Potter movie
Source: People's Choice
?? @EmmaWatson wins best actor in a movie for #BeautyAndTheBeast!!!! pic.twitter.com/Z0ITepqOvV
— Movie & TV Awards (@MTVAwards) May 8, 2017
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Hard work and dedication pays off. Likewise, for Emma, she got the achievement she deserves.
Also, to win among the strongest candidates is commendable for Emma. She is the woman who runs with wolves!
We also hope that other awards ceremonies will follow the non-gender categories shortly.
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