LOS ANGELES — The people have chosen vampires.
The Twilight Saga, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries all sucked up trophies Wednesday at the 36th annual People’s Choice Awards.
Twilight won four trophies, including favourite movie, franchise and on-screen team for the dreamy trio of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who also picked up the breakout male actor award.
The undead HBO fable True Blood and the soapy supernatural CW series The Vampire Diaries were respectively selected as favourite TV obsession and favourite new TV drama.
Other winners in categories spanning movies, TV and music included Inglourious Basterds as favourite independent movie and Lady Gaga as favourite pop and breakout music artist.
Queen Latifah, who returned as host of the fan-favourite ceremony for the fourth consecutive year, kicked off the show at the Nokia Theatre with a jazzy name-dropping number.
Stars such as Hugh Jackman, Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Ashton Kutcher, Taylor Swift and Ellen DeGeneres were on hand to accept their awards selected by Internet votes.
“One for each of Sandra Bullock’s toes,” joked 11-time People’s Choice Awards champion DeGeneres.
Other TV winners included American Idol as favourite competition show, Glee as favourite new TV comedy, Steve Carell as favourite TV comedy actor, Alyson Hannigan as favourite TV comedy actress, The Big Bang Theory as favourite TV comedy, House as favourite TV drama, Hugh Laurie as favourite TV drama actor and Supernatural as favourite fantasy TV show.
Winners in the movie categories included Bullock as favourite movie actress, Jackman as favourite action star, The Proposal as favourite comedy movie and Up for favourite family movie.
Sacha Baron Cohen, appearing as himself and not as his alter-egos Borat or Bruno, presented Johnny Depp with a special award as favourite movie actor of the decade.
“The only reason that any of us are up here is because of you,” Depp told the audience.
Throughout the show, Latifah appeared in spoofs of Twilight and Paranormal Activity, which featured a cameo by Cloris Leachman clad in a sexy leather ensemble.
The show also featured performances by Mary J. Blige, Cobra Starship and Nicole Scherzinger, as well as debut footage from Clash of the Titans, Robin Hood and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.
On the Net:
http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/