Betty Who to follow in steps of Lady Gaga- to make award show debut at Logo's New Now Next Awards

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

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)

1. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
2. Cabaret
3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
4. If/Then
5. 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 Games was a worldwide phenomenon.

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