Twilight franchise leads People's Choice Movie nominations
Story by Jack Foley
VAMPIRE saga Twilight leads the nominations for this year’s People’s Choice Awards having been nominated in seven out of 12 movie categories.
The film’s stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are in line for best actor and actress, while co-stars Anna Kendrick and Taylor Lautner are also shortlisted for breakout actor and actress.
Twilight is also in the running for Favourite Movie, as well as best franchise, while Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner are up for best on-screen team.
Other films to feature prominently among this year’s list of nominees include Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, The Proposal and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is up against (500) Days of Summer, Paranormal Activity and District 9 in the best independent movie category.
Fans can vote for their selections online at the People’s Choice Awards website and the winners will be announced at a ceremony on January 6, 2010.
The movie nominations are…
Movie actor:
Brad Pitt
Hugh Jackman
Johnny Depp
Robert Pattinson
Ryan Reynolds
Movie actress:
Anna Hathaway
Drew Barrymore
Jennifer Aniston
Kristen Stewart
Sandra Bullock
Action star:
Christian Bale
Gerard Butler
Hugh Jackman
Shia LaBeouf
Vin Diesel
Comedic star:
Adam Sandler
Ben Stiller
Jim Carrey
Ryan Reynolds
Vince Vaughn
Breakout movie actress:
Anna Kendrick
Emily Osment
Ginnifer Goodwin
Miley Cyrus
Zoe Saldana
Breakout movie actor:
Chris Pine
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sam Worthington
Taylor Lautner
Zachary Quinto
On-screen team:
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, The Proposal
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga
Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan and Daniel Henney, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Family movie:
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Up
Where the Wild Things Are
Independent movie: (500) Days of Summer
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Paranormal Activity
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail
Franchise:
Harry Potter
Star Trek
The Twilight Saga
Transformers
X-Men
Comedy movie:
17 Again
Bride Wars
He’s Just Not That Into You
The Hangover
The Proposal
Favourite movie:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek
The Hangover
The Proposal
Twilight