12th Annual American Reality TV Awards

OFFICIAL NOMINEES

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Outstanding Art Direction

  • American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
  • Ink Master: OGs vs Young Guns (Paramount+)
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV)
  • The Amazing Race Canada (CTV)
  • The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras (MTV)
  • Trixie Motel: Drag Me Home (MAX)

Outstanding Competition Show

  • American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
  • America’s Got Talent (NBC)
  • Dancing With The Stars (ABC)
  • Hell's Kitchen (FOX)
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV)
  • The Amazing Race (CBS)
  • The Bachelor (ABC)
  • The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras (MTV)
  • The Masked Singer (FOX)
  • The Mole (Netflix)

Most Creative Challenge

  • American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
  • Deal or No Deal Island (NBC)
  • Is It Cake? (Netflix)
  • The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras (MTV)
  • The Great British Baking Show (Netflix)

Outstanding Docu-Series

  • Black Twitter: A People's History (HULU)
  • Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks (ID)
  • Jersey Shore Family Vacation (MTV)
  • Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (MTV)
  • Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (ID)
  • Scamanda (ABC)
  • Sister Wives (TLC)
  • Welcome to Plathville (TLC)

Best Editing

  • Alien Sharks: Ghosts of Japan (DISCOVERY)
  • American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
  • The Curious Case of Natalia Grace (ID)
  • Shark Tank (ABC)
  • The Amazing Race Canada (CTV)

BEST Feel Good Show

Outstanding Food Series

  • BBQ Brawl (FOOD Network)
  • Blue Ribbon Baking Championship (Netflix)
  • Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (FOOD Network)
  • Dinner Budget Showdown (Roku)
  • Hell's Kitchen (FOX)

Outstanding Game Show

  • Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)
  • Fast Friends (MAX)
  • Let’s Make A Deal (CBS)
  • Password (NBC)
  • Press Your Luck (ABC)
  • The Floor (FOX)
  • The Price Is Right At Night (CBS)

Guilty Pleasure Show

  • Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders (ID)
  • Evil Lives Here (ID)
  • Hell’s Kitchen (FOX)
  • Ready to Love (OWN)
  • Ridiculousness (MTV)
  • The Kardashians (Hulu)
  • The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (BRAVO)
  • The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (HULU)
  • Vanderpump Villa (HULU)
  • Welcome To Plathville (TLC)

outstanding host

  • Alfonso Ribeiro (America's Funniest Home Videos)
  • Donnie Wahlberg (Very Scary People)
  • Jesse Palmer (The Golden Bachelorette)
  • Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live!)
  • Jonathan Bennett (Finding Mr. Christmas)
  • Ms. Pat (Ms. Pat Settles It)
  • Nick Cannon (The Masked Singer)
  • Rob Lowe (The Floor)
  • RuPaul Charles (RuPaul's Drag Race)
  • T.J. Lavin (The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras)

INTERNATIONAL REALITY SERIES

  • Celebrity Task Force (TV2 Norway)
  • Elisabeth Rioux: Unfiltered (Prime Video)
  • Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan (CBC / CBC Gem)
  • The Mole (Netflix)
  • Troop 3 (TV2 Norway)

BEST JUDGING PANEL

  • RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV)
  • Shark Tank (ABC)
  • So You Think You Can Dance (FOX)
  • The Voice (NBC)
  • The Masked Singer (FOX)

OUTSTANDING NEW CAST

Outstanding NEW SHOW

  • Finding Mr. Christmas (Hallmark+)
  • Lethally Blonde (ID)
  • Scare Tactics (USA)
  • The Golden Bachelorette (ABC)
  • The Never Ever Mets (OWN)
  • The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (HULU)
  • Vanderpump Villa (HULU)
  • Wayne Brady: The Family Remix (Freeform)

BEST OVERALL SHOW

  • American Ninja Warrior (ABC)
  • America's Got Talent (NBC)
  • Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks (ID)
  • Hell's Kitchen (FOX)
  • Jeopardy! (ABC)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV)
  • Shark Tank (ABC)
  • The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (BRAVO)
  • The Voice (NBC)
  • Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? (ABC)

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION COMPANY

  • 495 Productions
  • A. Smith & Co. Productions
  • FOX Alternative Entertainment (FAE)
  • Fremantle
  • Hot Snakes Media
  • MTV Entertainment Studios
  • Sony Pictures Television
  • Universal Television Alternative Studio
  • Warner Bros. Unscripted Television

OUtSTANDING PRODUCTION CREW

  • American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
  • Hell's Kitchen (FOX)
  • Jersey Shore Family Vacation (MTV)
  • Police 24/7 (CW)
  • Shark Tank (ABC)

REALITY KING (REALITY ROYALTY AWARD®

  • Alan Cumming (The Traitors)
  • Connor Tomlinson (Love on the Spectrum)
  • Guy Fieri (Guy’s Grocery Games)
  • Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino (Jersey Shore Family Vacation)
  • Pauly D (Jersey Shore Family Vacation)
  • Peter Weber (The Traitors)
  • Robert “Rob” Rausch (Love Island USA)

OVERALL REALITY PODCAST

  • Bravo & Blaze with Jenny Blaze
  • MTV's Official Challenge Podcast
  • Rob Has a Podcast
  • The Sarah Fraser Show
  • Undressed with Pol' and Patrik

reality tv moment

  • 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After (TLC)
  • American Ninja Warrior (NBC)
  • Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks (ID)
  • Gown and Out in Beverly Hills (Prime Video)
  • Ms. Pat Settles It (BET)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV)
  • Sister Wives (TLC)
  • The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras (MTV)

REALITY QUEEN (REALITY ROYALTY AWARD®)

  • Abby Lee Miller (Mad House)
  • Jenni “JWoww” Farley (Jersey Shore Family Vacation)
  • Kris Jenner (The Kardashians)
  • Lisa Vanderpump (Vanderpump Villa)
  • Natalia Grace (The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks)
  • Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (Jersey Shore Family Vacation)
  • Ms. Pat (Ms. Pat Settles It)

outstanding recurring cast

  • 1000-lb Sisters (TLC)
  • Belle Collective (OWN)
  • Jersey Shore Family Vacation (MTV)
  • Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN)
  • Welcome to Plathville (TLC)

best talk/variety show

  • Hot Ones (YouTube)
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
  • On the Record (RFD-TV)
  • Ridiculousness (MTV)
  • The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
  • The Jennifer Hudson Show (FOX)

outstanding true crime series

  • Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks (ID)
  • Evil Lives Here (ID)
  • Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini (HULU)
  • Police 24/7 (CW)
  • Secrets of Polygamy (A&E)
  • Snapped (Oxygen True Crime)
  • The Girl on the Milk Carton (Oxygen True Crime)

most unique concept

  • Coming From America (Discovery)
  • Dinner and a Movie (TBS)
  • Help! I am in a Secret Relationship (MTV)
  • Scare Tactics (USA)
  • The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks (ID)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL REALITY SERIES

  • Billboards Inc (Tubi)
  • Gown and Out in Beverly Hills (Prime Video)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: The Pit Stop (YouTube)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race: Whatcha Packin' with Michelle Visage (YouTube)
  • The Dolls (Brandon TV)

Network Nominations

MTV | 22

ABC | 20
NBC | 14

Investigation Discovery | 13
FOX | 13

Hulu | 9
TLC | 8
Netflix | 6
OWN | 6
CBS | 3

BET | 3

Food Network | 3

YouTube | 3

Prime Video | 3
Brandon TV | 2
CTV (Canada) | 2
CW | 2
Hallmark+ | 2

USA | 2

Bravo | 2

Discovery | 2

TV2 Norway | 2

Tubi | 2

Oxygen True Crime | 2

Paramount+ | 1
Roku | 1
TBS | 1
CBC/CBC Gem | 1
Freeform | 1
RFD-TV | 1
Comedy Central | 1
A&E | 1

Reality Shows
(Multiple Nominations)

American Ninja Warrior – 8 | The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks – 7 | Jersey Shore Family Vacation – 7 | RuPaul’s Drag Race – 6 | Hell’s Kitchen – 6 | Shark Tank – 5 | The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras – 5 | Welcome to Plathville – 3 | The Masked Singer – 3 | The Golden Bachelorette – 3 | Ms. Pat Settles It – 3 | Vanderpump Villa – 3 | The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives – 2 | Evil Lives Here – 2 | The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City – 2 | The Traitors – 2 | America’s Got Talent – 2 | Billboards Inc – 2 | Finding Mr. Christmas – 2 | Dancing With The Stars – 2 | The Amazing Race Canada – 2 | The Voice – 2  | The Kardashians – 2 | Ready to Love – 2 | The Amazing Race – 2 | America’s Funniest Home Videos – 2 | Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives – 2 | The Floor – 2 | Gown and Out – 2 | The Price Is Right At Night – 2 | Ridiculousness – 2 MTV | Sister Wives – 2 | Scare Tactics – 2 | Police 24/7 – 2 | The Mole – 2 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! – 2 

Shows with One Nomination

• 1000-lb Sisters (TLC)

• 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days (TLC)

• 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After (TLC)

• Abby Lee Miller’s Mad House (Brandon TV)

• Alien Sharks: Ghosts of Japan (Discovery)

• The Amazing Race (CBS)

• The Bachelor (ABC)
• BBQ Brawl (Food Network)

• Belle Collective (OWN)
• Black Twitter: A People’s History (Hulu)

• Blue Ribbon Baking Championship (Food Network)
• Bravo & Blaze with Jenny Blaze (Podcast)

• Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)

• Celebrity Task Force (TV2 Norway)
• Coming From America (Discovery)

• The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
• Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders (ID)
• Deal or No Deal Island (NBC)
• Dinner Budget Showdown (Roku)
• Dinner and a Movie (TBS)

• The Dolls (Brandon TV)
• Elisabeth Rioux: Unfiltered (Amazon Prime)
• Fast Friends (HBO MAX)
• First Time Buyer’s Club (OWN)

• The Great Christmas Light Fight (ABC)

• The Girl on the Milk Carton (Oxygen True Crime)
• Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan (CBC/CBC Gem)
• Guy’s Grocery Games (Food Network)
• Help! I am in a Secret Relationship (MTV)
• Hot Ones (YouTube)
• Ink Master: OGs vs Young Guns (Paramount+)
• Is It Cake? (Netflix)
• Jeopardy! (ABC)
• Jennifer Hudson Show (FOX)
• Lethally Blonde (ID)
• Let’s Make A Deal (CBS)
• Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (MTV)
• Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN)
• MTV’s Official Challenge Podcast (Podcast)

• The Never Ever Mets (OWN)
• On the Record (RFD-TV)
• Opportunity Knock$ (PBS)
• Password (NBC)
• Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini (Hulu)
• Press Your Luck (ABC)
• Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (ID)
• Rob Has a Podcast (Podcast)
• RuPaul’s Drag Race: The Pit Stop (MTV)
• RuPaul’s Drag Race: Whatcha Packin’ with Michelle Visage (YouTube)

• The Sarah Fraser Show (Podcast)
• Scamanda (ABC)
• Secrets of Polygamy (A&E)
• Snapped (Oxygen True Crime)
• So You Think You Can Dance (FOX)

• Trixie Motel: Drag Me Home (MAX)

• Troop 3 (TV2 Norway)
• Undressed with Pol’ and Patrik (Podcast)
• Very Scary People (ID)
• Wayne Brady: The Family Remix (Freeform)

• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (ABC)