The 36th People's Choice Awards Love Vampires

The 36th annual People's Choice Awards have chosen vampire flicks as its big winners. "The Twilight Saga," "True Blood" and "The Vampire Diaries" ruled the ceremony held last Wednesday night at the Nokia Theatre.


"The Twilight Saga" bit hard with four trophies including the favorite movie, franchise, and on-screen team for Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner who played the most-loved characters of Edward, Bella, and Jacob. Taylor Lautner also received the breakout male actor award.

Meanwhile, HBO's "True Blood" won the favorite TV obsession award as CW series "The Vampire Diaries" received the award for favorite new TV drama.


Vampires aside, other winners from the TV world included "American Idol" as favorite competition show, "Glee" as favorite new TV comedy, "The Big Bang Theory" as favorite TV comedy, "House" as favorite TV drama, and "Supernatural" as favorite fantasy TV show. Steve Carell won the favorite TV comedy actor award, Alyson Hannigan as favorite TV comedy actress, Hugh Laurie as favorite TV drama actor, and Katherine Heigl as the favorite TV drama actress.

For the movie category, Sandra Bullock was the favorite movie actress and Hugh Jackman was the favorite action star. Miley Cyrus received the favorite breakout movie actress award while Jim Carrey was awarded as the favorite comedic star. Sandra Bullock's "The Proposal" was also awarded as the favorite comedy movie while "Up" received honor for favorite family movie. "Inglourious Basterds" was the favorite independent movie.

Winners in music category included Lady Gaga as the favorite pop and breakout music artist, Keith Urban as favorite male artist, Taylor Swift as female artist, Carrie Underwood as country artist, Mariah Carey as R&B artist, Paramore as favorite rock band, Eminem as favorite hip-hop artist, and "Run This Town" by Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West as the favorite music collaboration.

Awards in other categories included "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" as the favorite talk show, "Dog Whisperer" as the favorite animal show, and Ashton Kutcher as the favorite web celebrity.

Queen Latifah hosted the ceremony for the fourth consecutive year, kicking off the show with a jazzy number while appearing in spoofs of "Twilight" and "Paranormal Activity" throughout the show.

The awarding ceremony also featured performances by Mary J. Blige, Cobra Starship and Nicole Scherzinger. Debut footage from "Clash of the Titans," "Robin Hood" and "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" were also presented.

"The only reason that any of us are up here is because of you," Johnny Depp told the audience. He not only received the favorite actor award but was also titled as "Actor of the Decade" for winning the award several times since the last 10 years.

"New Moon" Has Best Opening Day In Film History!

With a shocking $72.7 million in its 24-hour run, Twilight's sequel "New Moon" has the best opening day in film history!


Summit Entertainment's "New Moon" grabs the title from Warner Brothers' "The Dark Knight," which has earned $67.2 million from 4,366 runs last July. The vampire flick makes the box office record from 4,024 theaters - a said exceptional feat for a film playing outside the summer frame. And while the franchise targeted young females, it has surprisingly played beyond its core crowd to males.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner's performances in "New Moon" are highly anticipated, but it is the "Team Edward vs Team Jacob" campaign that really does the magic.

Miley Cyrus Vs Taylor Lautner: Double Standard For Teen Stars?

Does Hollywood have a double standard for its shirtless teenage stars?


When Miley Cyrus posed in Vanity Fair last year, wearing but a wrap of sheet and exposing her right shoulder and the top of her back, the negative reaction was overwhelming. Critics said the 15 year-old actress and her nude-implied photo is "sexualization of a child to sell magazines."

The call to reprimand the teen star was intense enough for her to eventually make a public apology statement saying, "I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone." This was despite how she expressed earlier liking to the photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz.

Now, with the New Moon movie coming to theatres in a month, there's the 17 year-old Taylor Lautner and his shirtless body blanketing the magazines, websites, and TV for the promotion of the Twilight sequel. Just like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Hautner is also a minor - a child. Unlike his fellow teen star, however, images of his shirtless body not only appeared on one magazine but on countless mass media. And unlike Miley Cyrus, no one called the shirtless photos of this teen male star scandalous.

And so Lindsay Robertson asks on Yahoo Movie Talk colum, "Does Hollywood have a double standard for shirtless teenage stars?"

Taylor Lautner trained for months to get the fit and toned body that New Moon has been showing off. But for all the shirtless images of him in circulation, there's only one major voice to raise questions about his photos. His New Moon co-star Kristin Davis says, "I feel protective, like what is he doing without his shirt on? And then I hear he's dating people, and I'm like, 'Ahh!'"


Good or bad for the young Taylor Hautner, no one is seeing his shirtless images as sexualization of a child to sell a movie. And while there's no big critic to his provocative photos, he could only hope that he never has to take his shirt off in a movie again:

"It's so uncomfortable knowing that so many people are seeing pictures of me shirtless... It's weird. It's kind of embarrassing."