Riz Ahmed
Rizwan Ahmed, also known as Riz MC, is a British actor, rapper, and activist of Pakistani descent. As an actor, he has won one Emmy Award, out of two Emmy nominations, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and three British Independent Film Awards. He was initially known for his work in independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), Ill Manors (2012), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013), before his break-out role in Nightcrawler (2014).
D. B. Weiss
Daniel Brett Weiss is an American television producer and writer, and novelist. Along with his collaborator David Benioff, he is best known as co-creator and showrunner of Game of Thrones, the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire.
List of awards and nominations received by Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Bieber's first full studio album, My World 2.0, was released on March 19, 2010. Bieber released his second album Under the Mistletoe in 2011. His third album Believe was released the following year. Bieber has received two Brit Awards, one Bambi Award, and numerous fan voted awards which include 12 American Music Awards, 20 Teen Choice Awards and 22 MTV Europe Music Awards. Bieber has also been voted as a winner for one Grammy Award, and 14 Guinness World Records as well.
List of awards and nominations received by Ariana Grande
American singer and actress Ariana Grande has won more than sixty awards during her career. Her debut album Yours Truly was released in 2013 and debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album spawned the singles "The Way" and "Baby I", both of which reached the Hot 100. That same year, she won New Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards. She played a titular role in the teen sitcom Sam & Cat (2013–14), for which she won a Favorite TV Actress award at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
List of awards and nominations received by Alessia Cara
Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara has won 17 awards out of 73 nominations. Cara signed a record deal with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014, and released her debut single "Here" the following year, which earned her six nominations at the 2016 iHeartRadio MMVAs and a nomination for Single of the Year at the Juno Awards. In 2017, she released "Stay" alongside Russian-German producer Zedd, which won Best Dance Video at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, and received a nomination for Top Dance/Electronic Song at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards. That same year, she released "1-800-273-8255" in collaboration with American rapper Logic and singer Khalid, which received nominations for Best Collaboration and Best Video with a Social Message at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards and won Best Video at the 2018 iHeartRadio MMVAs.
List of awards and nominations received by Peter Dinklage
As of 2017, American actor Peter Dinklage has won fourteen awards from 61 nominations. He has been nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards and 14 Screen Actor Guild Awards, winning three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actor Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award.
The Duffer Brothers
Matt and Ross Duffer, known professionally as the Duffer Brothers, are American film and television writers, directors, and producers. They created the science fiction-horror series Stranger Things, wrote and directed the 2015 horror film Hidden, and have written episodes for Wayward Pines. They are twin brothers and have had a close relationship since childhood. They work on all of their projects as a duo.
Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence for her role as Eleven/El/Jane Ives/Jane Hopper in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at age 13, becoming one of the youngest Emmy Award nominees of all time. She is the youngest person ever to feature on Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people and the youngest person to be appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Gaten Matarazzo
Gaten John Matarazzo III is an American actor. He began his career on the Broadway stage as Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and as Gavroche in Les Misérables. He currently stars as Dustin Henderson in the Netflix science-fiction drama series Stranger Things.
Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb McLaughlin is an American actor. He began his career on the Broadway stage as Young Simba in the musical The Lion King. He plays Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix series Stranger Things. In 2017, McLaughlin appeared in the BET miniseries The New Edition Story as Ricky Bell.
Noah Schnapp
Noah Schnapp is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror web television series Stranger Things. His other acting roles include the voice of Charlie Brown in the animated movie The Peanuts Movie and Roger Donovan in Steven Spielberg's historical drama film Bridge of Spies.
2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards
The 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards was held on May 7, 2017, from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, U.S. It was the 26th edition of the awards, and for the first time it presented honors for work in television as well as cinema; it was also the first time men and women competed jointly in the acting categories since 2007. The awards ceremony was hosted by Adam DeVine and broadcast on numerous Viacom channels, MTV.com, and the MTV app on mobile devices.
List of awards and nominations received by Stranger Things
Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror web television series created for Netflix by the Duffer Brothers and features an ensemble cast. It is set in the fictional rural town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s. The nearby Hawkins National Laboratory ostensibly performs scientific research for the United States Department of Energy, but secretly does experiments into the paranormal and supernatural, including those that involve human test subjects. Inadvertently, they have created a portal to an alternate dimension called "the Upside Down". The influence of the Upside Down starts to affect the unknowing residents of Hawkins in calamitous ways. All episodes of the first season were released on Netflix on July 15, 2016, while the second season was released in its entirety on October 27, 2017.
2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards
The 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards was held on June 16, 2018, from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, U.S. and was broadcast on June 18, 2018. Similar to the 2016 MTV Movie Awards, the event was not aired live and was pre-recorded on June 16 prior to its June 18 broadcast date. It was the 27th edition of the awards and the second to jointly honor movies and television. The ceremony was hosted by Tiffany Haddish.