NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the cast of 鈥淭ed Lasso鈥 and the web series that gave us a kid loving corn are among the nominees for this year鈥檚 Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators.
The announced the nominees on Tuesday, the result of nearly 14,000 entries from 70 countries.
Styles nabbed a nomination for Trevor Noah for his segments filmed between the scenes at 鈥淭he Daily Show鈥 and BTS fans for their YouTube uploads called #MyBTStory. Lizzo got one for her hosting her show in which she hunts for dancers.
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Nominees include 鈥淩ecess Therapy,鈥 the show that highlighted Post Malone's listening experience for 鈥淭welve Carat Toothache鈥 and a VR concert by Megan Thee Stallion was nominated for best metaverse, immersive or virtual performance.
In other music nods, Future's featuring Drake and Tems, Muse's Disturbed's and Christina Aguilera's reworked for World Mental Health Day are competing for best music video.
Metallica's teaming up with 鈥淪tranger Things鈥 for a collection of Hellfire Club merchandise was nominated for best partnership or collaboration and the social media accounts of Lupita Nyong鈥檕, Stephen Colbert and Jennifer Garner got nods.
A focus on artificial intelligence reflected the tech world's fascination with its promise, including OpenAI getting a nomination for best science website or mobile site, and nods for the and the voice-activated
Companies earning the highest number of nominations are Apple with 22, MTV with 15, 香港六合彩挂牌资料 Geographic and Netflix each with 14, Audible with 13, CNN and HBO and The Washington Post each with 12, Google and Meta with 11 apiece and Amazon with 10.
Awards are selected by the Academy, while The Webby People鈥檚 Voice Awards are voted on by fans around the world. Winners for all awards will be announced on April 25.
Academy members include drummer, filmmaker and writer Questlove, podcaster Roxane Gay, actor LeVar Burton, comedians Samantha Bee and Ziwe Fumudoh, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Savage X Fenty executive Natalie Guzman, fashion designer Tan France, 鈥淎bbott Elementary鈥 creator and actor Quinta Brunson, Amazon executive Werner Vogels, podcaster Andy Slavitt, software engineer Tracy Chou and artist Takashi Murakami.
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