Emma Watson Activist Awards

Emma Watson is a British actress and activist. She achieved international fame at a very young age, thanks to her role as Hermione in the world-famous Harry Potter saga. Subsequently, she fully diversified her roles and acting talents: she played a costume designer in the film My Week with Marilyn (2011), she was in the films Charlie's World (2012), The Bling Ring (2013), Noah (2014), Colonia (2015), The Circle (2017). Today she is also famous for her portrayal of the famous princess Belle in Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast (2017), and for her role as Meg, one of the daughters of Dr. March in the film Little Women (2019).

Alongside her acting career, she is a very committed woman, especially for the cause of women. In 2014, she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador by the UN Women. In the same year, she was noticed for her speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in which she called on men and women to make gender equality a priority. She approaches feminism with a positive attitude that seeks to emphasize mutual support and respect between the sexes, not hatred against men.

Emma Watson is also very interested in the education of young girls around the world. Her travels include Bangladesh, Zambia and, in September 2015, Uruguay, as a UN Goodwill Ambassador to encourage women to take part in the political life of their country. She would later be named a feminist celebrity by the Ms. Foundation for Women.

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In 2015, she was named one of the 100 most influential people of the year by Time, and she was named Most Outstanding Woman of the Year by AskMen magazine.

She also participates in the solidarity campaign HeForShe launched by UN Women for gender equality. To this end, she organized a question and answer session with her fans on March 8, 2015, in honor of International Women's Day.

In 2016, she opened a feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf, on the digital platform Goodreads. She is joined by several celebrities such as Sophia Bush, Gloria Steinem, Abby Wambach or Kate Voegele and over 37 thousand anonymous.

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Emma Watson is also committed to fair trade and sustainable development. In 2010, she released a line of clothing for teenagers Love from Emma, in collaboration with Safia Minney, the founder of People Tree. She supports, in a totally disinterested way (without any remuneration) the values of this brand, whose products are organically grown and sold in compliance with fair trade. In 2013, she was elected Woman of the Year by GQ magazine. In 2011, she won the ELLE Style icon, awarded by ELLE magazine, and in 2017 she was named Inspirational Woman of the Year. She is also, since June 2020, a member of the board of directors of French luxury group Kering.Actor recognised for her role in the live-action Beauty and the Beast, as MTV abolishes gender categories in its film and TV awards ceremony

Emma Watson was among the winners at the MTV movie and TV awards, the first major film and TV awards ceremony to adopt gender-neutral categories.

Watson’s performance in Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast won her the gong for best actor in a movie, a category that featured both male and female nominees. The British actor beat male performers including Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy to the award, which was presented by gender-neutral nonbinary actor Asia Kate Dillon.

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“The first acting award in history that doesn’t separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience, ” she said.

“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. This is very meaningful to me.”

Presenting the award Dillon said, “Tonight we celebrate portrayals of the human experience, because the only distinction we should be making when it comes to awards is between each outstanding performance.”

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In the ceremony’s other gender-neutral acting category, Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown won the award for best actor in a TV show ahead of the likes of Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke and Atlanta star Donald Glover. Brown thanked Stranger Things showrunners the Duffer brothers for creating “a badass female iconic character that I’ve got the honour to play”. Stranger Things also won the award for show of the year, while Beauty and the Beast was awarded movie of the year.

Jharrel Jerome and Ashton Sanders were awarded best kiss for the gay love story Moonlight. Receiving the award, the pair acknowledged the groundbreaking role of the film.

“This award is bigger than Jharrel and I, ” Sanders said. “This represents more than a kiss. This is for those who feel like the others, the misfits – this represents us.”

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“It’s safe to say that it is OK for us young performers, especially us minority performers, to step out of the box … and do whatever it takes to tell the story and do whatever it takes to make a change, ” Jerome added.

Other winners at the ceremony included Logan stars Hugh Jackman and Dafne Keen, who were awarded best duo, and Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya, who won the next generation award. Hidden Figures received the gong for best fight against the system, an award that examines how “honest, well-told stories lead to important discussions, lead to understanding, and can lead to a changed nation”.

The decision to create gender-neutral categories at the awards came as part of a wider overhaul of the ceremony that also saw TV series competing for the first time, as well as series and films competing in the same categories.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.

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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.