Will Smith To Receive Generation Award At MTV Movie Awards

After boycotting the Academy Awards over the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Will Smith will find his way to a different ceremony.

The actor will receive the Generation Award at this year's MTV Movie Awards, the network announced Thursday.

"Will is the voice of a generation and not afraid to use it," Casey Patterson, the show's executive producer, said in a statement.

Smith, 47, made headlines in January when he joined wife Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee in their refusal to attend or watch the 2016 Academy Awards.

For a second year in a row, the Oscars had an all-white slate of acting nominees, and pressure from the Hollywood heavyweights helped lead to reforms in Academy membership and voting.

"We're uncomfortable to stand there and say, 'This is OK,'" Smith previously told ABC's Good Morning America.

Smith received Academy Award Best Actor nominations for the 2001 film "Ali" about legendary boxer Muhammad Ali and the 2006 drama "The Pursuit of Happyness.He's won MTV Movie Awards for Best Male Performance for both "Ali" and the 2008 flick "I Am Legend."

Past recipients of the Generation Award include Robert Downey Jr., Mark Wahlberg, Jamie Foxx, Johnny Depp, Reese Witherspoon, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Sandra Bullock, Mike Myers, Tom Cruise and Jim Carrey.

Actors Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are hosting this year's ceremony, set to air April 10.

Chris Rock hosted the Academy Awards telecast last month and joked that if he'd quit the job in protest, Hart would have been tapped to take his place.

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