Atlanta’s ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Black Panther’ win MTV Movie & TV Awards 2018

Combined, they took home eight Golden Popcorn prizes
SANTA MONICA, CA - JUNE 16:  (L-R) Actors Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, and Noah Schnapp accept the Best Show award for 'Stranger Things' onstage during the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California.  (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for MTV)

Credit: Kevin Winter

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SANTA MONICA, CA - JUNE 16: (L-R) Actors Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, and Noah Schnapp accept the Best Show award for 'Stranger Things' onstage during the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for MTV)

Originally posted Tuesday, June 19, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog

MTV’s young audience bestowed its biggest MTV Movie & TV honors Monday night to “Stranger Things” and “Black Panther,” both Atlanta-based productions.

"Stranger Things," which is currently in its third season of production, took home best show over competitors such as "Game of Thrones" and "13 Reasons Why." Millie Bobby Brown won best performance in a show while Noah Schnapp took home "most frightened performance." The best musical moment was Mike and Eleven dancing to "Every Breath You Take."

"Black Panther" took home a prize for best film over "Wonder Woman," "IT," "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Girls Trip." Chadwick Boseman won for best performance in a film and best hero while Michael B. Jordan won best villain.

Boseman, during his best hero acceptance speech, gave his award to James Shaw Jr. as the real hero for taking down a gunman at a Waffle House in Tennessee and raised $227,000 for the victims.

SANTA MONICA, CA - JUNE 16:  (L-R) Actors Winston Duke, Chadwick Boseman, and Michael B. Jordan accept the Best Movie award (Presented by Toyota) for 'Black Panther' onstage during the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California.  (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for MTV)

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And Tiffany Haddish had fun as host, cracking jokes galore and inserting “Girls Trip” cast into “Black Panther.”