Emma Watson Award Show

There were plenty of big winners at this year's BAFTA Awards on Sunday, but the person who seemed to get most of Twitter talking wasn't even nominated.

Star and U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador onstage to present. She's proud to call herself a feminist, but we all know she's a witch.

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Emma Watson 'throws Savage Dig' At Jk Rowling At Baftas After Transgender Controversy

Author J.K. Rowling has been in the news recently because of comments made about Scotland's Gender Recognition Reform Bill(opens in a new tab) , a piece of legislation that will make it easier for transgender people in the country to change the sex listed on their birth certificate. Last week, Rowling tweeted(opens in a new tab) about the likely negative consequences of this legislation for women and girls, which prompted renewed accusations of transphobia(opens in a new tab) .

Rowling's views have been under scrutiny for years now, with a string of transphobic tweets(opens in a new tab) made by the author in 2020 prompting various members of the

Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are, Watson wrote on Twitter following the author's tweets. I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.

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I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) June 10, 2020(opens in a new tab)

I donate to @Mermaids_Gender(opens in a new tab) and @mamacash(opens in a new tab) . If you can, perhaps you’ll feel inclined to do the same. ❤️— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) June 10, 2020(opens in a new tab)

Watson's name has been trending on Twitter in the hours since her BAFTAs comments, with over 15, 000 tweets at the time of writing.

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This newsletter may contain advertising, deals, or affiliate links. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use(opens in a new tab) and Privacy Policy(opens in a new tab) . You may unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time.he only turned 23 today, but Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has been recognised for her work in film and fashion at the MTV Movie Awards.

She collected the trailblazer award at the Los Angeles ceremony and, after spending her formative years in the spotlight, admitted: “Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing.”

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Dressed in a Maxime Simoens graphic-print dress, she was presented the award by fellow British actor Eddie Redmayne and said: “I look back at all of the work I have done over the past 14 years and many things come to mind, notably how bad my hair was in the first Harry Potter film.

“Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’s a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up.

“It’s often not cool to be the person that puts themselves out there, and I’ve often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in — even if it makes you vulnerable — amazing things can and will happen.”

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The award was introduced last year when it was given to actress Emma Stone, and Watson said following in her footsteps was a daunting task.

She added: “I was actually here last year when Emma Stone won the trailblazer award, and she gave this awesome speech and I felt really inspired”. She sat in the audience with boyfriend Will Adamowicz.

Tom Hiddleston was the other British winner of the night, with best villain award as Loki in The Avengers. The superhero film scooped the movie of the year prize as well as best fight.

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Justin Bieber’s latest gaffe when he suggested Anne Frank would be a fan of his, The Avengers writer/director Joss Whedon said: “What’s the opposite of humbled? We’re Biebered to be standing here.”

Bradley Cooper won best male performance for Silver Linings Playbook, and co-star Jennifer Lawrence won best female performance. Anchorman and Elf star Will Ferrell won the comic genius award. And Jamie Foxx and Samuel L Jackson got the WTF Moment award for a fire scene in Django Unchained.

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An award “that doesn’t separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience, ” Ms. Watson, who won for her performance in “Beauty and the Beast, ” said in her acceptance speech.

“MTV’s move to create a genderless award for acting will mean something different to everyone, but to me it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes; and that doesn’t need to be separated into two different categories, ” she said.

(Ms. Watson’s speech referred to this as the “first ever” occasion that an award show had combined the performance categories, but the MTV Movie Awards have in fact done so on two occasions in the past, in 2006 and 2007.)

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Millie Bobby Brown, the 13-year-old star of Netflix’s show “Stranger Things, ” won the gender-neutral award for best acting in a television series.

Others were less sympathetic. Also on Monday morning, the conservative British television personality Piers Morgan, a host of “Good Morning Britain, ” lampooned Ms. Watson and the award, which he described as part of an “utterly ridiculous” culture of political correctness.

MTV’s prizes underwent an overhaul this year that included scrapping the male and female acting categories, and renaming what was previously called the MTV Movie Awards. The winners were chosen by public vote. “Beauty and the Beast” won the top film category, and “Stranger Things” won the top TV prize.

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An earlier version of this article attributed an erroneous distinction to Emma Watson’s win of the gender-neutral acting prize. MTV awarded gender-neutral acting prizes at its movie awards show in 2006 and 2007; this was not the first-ever such award.