From MTV/Logo TV Communications:
Event honoring the year’s best new actors, artists, films, television and more to feature appearances by Laverne Cox, Charli XCX, Meghan Trainor, Nick Jonas, A Great Big World, Tyler Oakley, and Lance Bass
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New York, November 13, 2014 – Logo TV today announced that emerging pop princess Betty Who is slated to make her television award show debut during Logo TV’s 2014 “New Now Next” Awards premiering on Logo TV on Sunday, December 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and MTV on December 12 at 7 p.m. ET/PT from Kimpton’s Surfcomber Miami, South Beach. The event, which kicks off Art Basel and serves as the definitive farewell party for 2014 and predictor to who and what will dominate pop culture in the year to come, will also feature appearances from Laverne Cox, Charli XCX, Meghan Trainor, Nick Jonas, A Great Big World, Tyler Oakley, and Lance Bass. Additional performers, presenters and guests will be announced at a later date.
Following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga, who made her television debut on the “New Now Next Awards” in 2008, Betty Who will perform one of the tracks from her debut album “Take Me When You Go.” She’s also nominated alongside Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX, Mary Lambert and Meghan Trainor in the best new musician (female) category.
“I’m so excited to be a part of this year’s New Now Next Awards, and it’s such an honour to have been nominated alongside such powerhouse ladies,” said Betty Who. “I’m such a fan of all the other women in the category so honestly just to be on the same list as them is so cool.”
This year’s nominations span categories across television, film, music, theater, social media, literature, fashion and art. Nominees that scored multiple nods include the films: Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dear White People, Obvious Child, The Fault In Our Stars; the television programs: Transparent, Looking and Broad City and theater productions: Cabaret, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, This is Our Youth and A Raisin in The Sun. Fans can vote now at LogoTV.com.
The nominees for the 2014 “New Now Next Awards” are:
Television:
Best New Television Series:
Broad City
How To Get Away With Murder
Looking
Outlander
Transparent
Best New Television Actor:
Jay Duplass, Transparent
Jonathan Groff, Looking
Thomas Middleditch, Silicon Valley
Pedro Pascal, Game of Thrones
Justin Theroux, The Leftovers
Best New Television Actress:
Ilana Glazer, Broad City
Gaby Hoffmann, Transparent
Molly Parker, House of Cards
Katie Stevens, Faking It
Lorraine Toussaint, Orange is the New Black
Best New Television Personality:
Pete Davidson, Saturday Night Live
Bianca Del Rio, RuPaul’s Drag Race
John Oliver, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Gwen Stefani, The Voice
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Film:
Best Motion Picture By a New Filmmaker:
Dear White People, Justin Simien
The Fault in Our Stars, Josh Boone
Guardians of the Galaxy, James Gunn
Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho
The Theory of Everything, James Marsh
Best New Screenwriter:
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Craig Johnson (with Mark Heyman), The Skeleton Twins
Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias, Love Is Strange
Justin Simien, Dear White People
Best New Lead Film Actor
Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
Ansel Elgort, The Fault In Our Stars
Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner
Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy
Miles Teller, Whiplash
Best New Lead Film Actress
Carrie Coon, Gone Girl
Natalie Dormer, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Jenny Slate, Obvious Child
Music:
Best New Musician (Male)
Hozier
Nick Jonas
John Newman
Paolo Nutini
Sam Smith
Best New Musician (Female)
Iggy Azalea
Charli XCX
Mary Lambert
Meghan Trainor
Betty Who
Best New Music Group
A Great Big World
Bastille
Bleachers
Disclosure
Pentatonix
Theater:
Best New Broadway Production (Musical)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Cabaret
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
If/Then
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Best New Broadway Production (Play)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
It’s Only a Play
Mothers and Sons
A Raisin in The Sun
This Is Our Youth
Best New Broadway Lead Actor
Michael Cera, This Is Our Youth
Bryan Cranston, All The Way
Rupert Grint, It’s Only a Play
Chris O’Dowd, Of Mice and Men
Alexander Sharp, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best New Broadway Lead Actress
Rose Byrne, You Can’t Take It With You
Tavi Gevinson, This Is Our Youth
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Real Thing
Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in The Sun
Michelle Williams, Cabaret
Nominees for the 2014 “New Now Next Awards” were selected by the New Now Next Academy, a mix of industry experts from television, film, music, literature, art and new media, as well as a survey of the Logo TV audience. In the coming weeks, Logo TV will announce performers, presenters and special guests as well as reveal the nominations in the academy winner selected categories: “Best New Fashion Designer,” “Best New Art Exhibition,” “Best New Fiction (Literature)” and “Best New Nonfiction (Literature)”. Additionally, nominees for two socially voted categories, “Best New Social Influencer (Male)” and “Best New Social Influencer (Female)” will be announced soon.
Sponsors for the 2014 “New Now Next Awards” include Cadillac, Clear Scalp and Hair, and Yoplait.
Ryan Kroft, Cleve Keller and Dave Noll are the executive producers for the 2015 “New Now Next Awards.” Joe Buoye is Executive in Charge. Vaughn Shoonmaker is producer.
Now in its seventh year, Logo TV’s “New Now Next Awards” have earned a reputation for breaking new ground in pop culture. Lady Gaga performed live for the first time on television, the cast of Bridesmaids made their first televised appearance together and the event honored Josh Hutcherson as the next big thing long before The Hunger Gameswas a worldwide phenomenon.
