Emma Watson Grammy Awards

Emma Watson made a potent call for breaking down gender categories as she scooped up the gender-neutral film acting prize at the MTV Movie and TV Awards, in a speech that was broadcast on Sunday night.

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.

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(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.)

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.

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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.

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.Beating the likes of Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy on Sunday night (May 7), the 27-year-old was presented with the genderless gong by Asia Kate Dillon, who plays Taylor in

Accepting the award in another empowering speech, Emma said: The first acting award that doesn't separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience.

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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,

This is the first time both men and women have been up for the same award in the show's history, but the MTV Movie & TV Awards isn't the first event to introduce gender-neutral categories – the Grammy Awards scrapped male and female prizes back in 2011.

She's one of the only princesses that isn't actually a princess. I think she was meant to be a departure from the Disney princesses that had come before.

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Everyone certainly thinks that marrying Gaston would be the most wonderful happy ending possible for her but she wants more for herself, which goes against the grain and the status quo and that's not easy to do.

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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,

This is the first time both men and women have been up for the same award in the show's history, but the MTV Movie & TV Awards isn't the first event to introduce gender-neutral categories – the Grammy Awards scrapped male and female prizes back in 2011.

She's one of the only princesses that isn't actually a princess. I think she was meant to be a departure from the Disney princesses that had come before.

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Everyone certainly thinks that marrying Gaston would be the most wonderful happy ending possible for her but she wants more for herself, which goes against the grain and the status quo and that's not easy to do.

Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our @ Twitter account and you're all set.

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