Emma Watson has won the first gender-neutral prize at the MTV TV & Movie Awards.
The former Harry Potter star picked up the best big-screen actor gong for her role as Belle in Beauty & the Beast and said it was "very meaningful".
She beat other male stars including James McAvoy and Hugh Jackman.
"The first acting award... that doesn't separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience," she said.
"MTV's move to create a genderless award for acting will mean something different to everyone.
"But to me it indicates that acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and that doesn't need to be separated into two different categories.
"Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits. This is very meaningful to me."
The MTV TV & Movie Awards isn't the first event to introduce gender-neutral categories - the Grammy Awards scrapped male and female prizes in 2011.
While most people were positive about her words, not everyone on social media was happy with Emma Watson's speech.
Emma Watson also collected the movie of the year award for Beauty & the Beast, which beat Get Out, Logan and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
The Disney film's director, Bill Condon, said: "Thank you to the audience who embraced this movie so much but especially to the women because women are proving that they are a huge and powerful audience and that's going to change the movie business."