Last night, Fox aired the Teen Choice Awards, a two-hour live event where teenagers got to cast their votes for their favorites in film, television, fashion, music, and more or the year.
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This year’s Teen Choice Awards saw several comic book movies and television shows, as well as the actors who work on them, nominated for a number of awards.
Among the movie award nominees were Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Logan, Doctor Strange, and The Lego Batman Movie. Not every one of those movies won, but representatives from both the DC and Marvel side of the aisle went home with awards under their belt.
As for television, there were plenty of comic book properties represented there as well. Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, Gotham, Riverdale, and iZombie all had nominees competing in the television categories.
Riverdale may be the biggest winner of the evening. The series itself took home two major awards for its first season on The CW. Four of the show’s core cast members took home awards for their individual performances, and one of the show’s relationships was also given an award.
It should surprise no one that Wonder Woman continued to ride the wave of popularity its harnassed since it opened in June to win top honors in the favorite action movie category. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine missed out on the award for best movie couple, but they each won an award Favorite Action Movie Actor/Actress.
Marvel Studios had two big winners at the Teen Choice Awards. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 took home the prize for favorite Sci-Fi movie. Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana also missed out on the movie romance award, but Pine was named Favorite Action Movie actor for playing Star-Lord and Zoe Saldana was named Favorite Action Movie Actress for Playing Gamora.
Spider-Man: Homecoming, the first Spider-Man movie to feature a high school age Peter Parker, was named Favorite Summer movie, with stars Tom Holland and Zendaya taking home individual honors.
Keep reading to see all of last night’s comic book movie and tv series Teen Choice Award winners.
Wonder Woman
DC Films’ latest release, Wonder Woman, was named Choice Action Movie, beating out competition from Logan, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Fast and the Furious, Transformers: The Last Knight, xXx: Return of Xander Cage.
Gal Gadot was named Choice Action Movie Actress for her lead role in Wonder Woman, beating Deepika Padukone, Kaya Scodelario, MIchelle Rodriguez, Nina Dobrev, and Ruby Rose.
Chris Pine was named Choice Action Movie Actor for his role as Chris Pine, beating out Hugh Jackman in his final performance as Wolverine in Logan, Dwayne Johnson, Johnny Depp, Brenton Thwaites, and Vin Diesel.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the second outing for Marvel’s cosmic heroes, was named Choice Sci-Fi Movie over Arrival, Kong: Skull Island, Power Rangers, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and The Space Between Us.
Chris Pratt was awarded Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actor for his role as Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, beating out Asa Butterfield, Dacre Montgomery, Diego Luna, Jeremy Renner, and Tom Hiddleston.
Zoe Saldana took home the award for Choice Sci-Fi Movie Actress for her role as Gamora, the daughter of Thanos. She won out over Amy Adams, Becky G, Brie Larson, Felicity Jones, and Naomi Scott.
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Homecoming swung away with the Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie, beating out Car 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, War for the Planet of the Apes, Transformers: The Last Knight, and Wonder Woman.
Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland, won the award for Choice Summer Movie Actor over fellow nominees Ansel Elgort, Chris Pine, Harry Styles, Mark Wahlberg, and Owen Wilson.
Zendaya’s performance as Michelle “MJ” Jones earned her the award for Choice Summer Movie Actress. She was competing with Bella Thorne, Cara Delevigne, Gal Gadot, Isabela Moner, and Mandy Moore.
Riverdale
The CW’s Riverdale, a quirky adaptation of classic Archie Comics characters, took home several Teen Choice Awards.
Riverdale itself was named Choice Drama TV Show, beating out Empire, Famous in Love, Pretty Little LIars, Star, and This Is Us. The series was also named Choice Breakout TV Show over Famous In Love, Star, Stranger Things, This Is Us, And Timeless.
Cole Sprouse, who play’s Riverdale‘s Jughead was named Choice Drama TV Actor, beating out Ian Harding, Jesse Williams, Jussie Smollett, MIlo Ventimiglia, and Sterling K. Brown.
Lili Reinhart, the actress who plays Betty Cooper, was named Choice Breakout TV Star over Chrissy Metz, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Ryan Destiny, and fellow Riverdale star KJ Apa.
Another member of the iconic Archie love triangle, Camila Mendes as Veronica, was named Choice Scene Stealer. Madelaine Petsch, who plays Cheryl Blossom, was awarded Choice Hissyfit. #BUGHEAD, the combination of Jughead and Betty, was named Choice TVShip.
The Flash, Supergirl
The Choice Action TV categories were stacked with nominees from the CW including Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow, and some other superhero television series from other networks, including Gotham and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD.
The Flash was named Choice Action TV Show over Arrow, Gotham, Lethal Weapon, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD and Supergirl.
The Flash star Grant Gustin took home the award for Choice Action TV Actor over Chris Wood, Clayne Crawford, Gabriel Luna, Stephen Amell, and Wentworth Miller.
Supergirl star Melissa Benois was named Choice Action TV Actress over Caity Lotz, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Emily Bett Rikards, and Jordana Brewster.
