Full list of winners from the 2012 People’s Choice Awards

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The annual People’s Choice Awards took place at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angelas last night. The show was hosted by Kaley Cuoco and there were performances from the likes of Faith Hill and Demi Lovato. While the host scored rave reviews and the performances are always fun to watch, it’s the winners that most people were concerned with (considering they were voted for by the fans). Here is a list of all the winners from this year’s People’s Choice Awards

Favorite Movie
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2″

Favorite Movie Actor
Johnny Depp

Favorite Movie Actress
Emma Stone

Favorite Movie Icon
Morgan Freeman

Favorite Action Movie
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2″

Favorite Action Movie Star
Hugh Jackman

Favorite Drama Movie
“Water for Elephants”

Favorite Comedy Movie
“Bridesmaids”

Favorite Comedic Movie Actor
Adam Sandler

Favorite Comedic Movie Actress
Emma Stone

Favorite Movie Star Under 25
Chloë Moretz

And the first celeb to enter rehab this year is?

2011 is barely eighty hours old and yet the first celebrity meltdown has already occurred. Following his breakup with Courtney Cox last year, David Arquette has taken the necessary steps to curb his drinking and depressed habits. According to sources close People Magazine, Arquette isn’t dealing well with the changes in his life, “He is in there for drinking and depression, not hard drugs. Rehab was inevitable. He is dealing with a broken heart. He can’t handle all the changes in his life. All his inner demons came out.” While David has admitted to becoming a “maniac” when he drinks, his ex wife, whom he separated from in October last year, says she’s happy he is taking the steps to better himself. “I really admire David and his choice to take charge and better his life. I love and support him.”

Unlike some other names in Hollywood, he looks like he’s willing to make this easier and with the support of his loved ones, hopefully he’ll be out of there sooner rather than later! Good luck to him

Hollywood star Terrence Howard encourages Jozi youth

American actor Terrence Howard took time out of his schedule at the weekend to watch a soccer match and enjoy lunch with some of the youth of Johannesburg. The star, who will play a young version of Nelson Mandela in the biopic Winnie also shared some words of encouragement with the children. I was there and I caught all the action on camera. Watch the video.

Screen Actors Guild Awards- nominees

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
“The Hurt Locker”
“Precious”
“Nine”
“An Education”
“Inglourious Basterds”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon, “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Diane Kruger, “Inglourious Basterds”
Mo’Nique, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”

Outstanding Stunt Ensemble:
“Public Enemies”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
“The Closer”
“Dexter”
“The Good Wife”
“Mad Men”
“True Blood”

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
“30 Rock”
“Curb Your Enthusiasm”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”
“The Office”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Simon Baker, “The Mentalist”
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”
Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Hugh Laurie, “House”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Drama Series
Patricia Arquette, “Medium”
Glenn Close, “Damages”
Mariska Hargitay, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
Holly Hunter, “Saving Grace”
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”
Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Steve Carell, “The Office”
Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
Tony Shalhoub, “Monk”
Charlie Sheen, “Two and a Half Men”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Comedy Series
Christina Applegate, “Samantha Who?”
Toni Collette, “The United States of Tara”
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, “The New Adventures of Old Christine”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Kevin Bacon, “Taking Chance”
Cuba Gooding, Jr., “Gifted Hands”
Jeremy Irons, “Georgia O”Keefe”
Kevin Kline, “Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac”
Tom Wilkinson, “A Number”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Joan Allen, “Georgia O’Keefe”
Drew Barrymore, “Grey Gardens”
Ruby Dee, “America”
Jessica Lange, “Grey Gardens”
Sigourney Weaver, “Prayers for Bobby”

Outstanding Stunt Ensemble:
“24″
“The Closer”
“Dexter”
“Heroes”
“The Unit”

2010 Golden Globe nominations: Full list

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
Avatar (2009)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Up in the Air (2009/I)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
The Hangover (2009)
It’s Complicated (2009)
Julie & Julia (2009)
Nine (2009)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)
George Clooney for Up in the Air (2009/I)
Colin Firth for A Single Man (2009)
Morgan Freeman for Invictus (2009)
Tobey Maguire for Brothers (2009/I)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
Emily Blunt for The Young Victoria (2009)
Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side (2009)
Helen Mirren for The Last Station (2009)
Carey Mulligan for An Education (2009)
Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Matt Damon for The Informant! (2009)
Daniel Day-Lewis for Nine (2009)
Robert Downey Jr. for Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer (2009)
Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man (2009)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Sandra Bullock for The Proposal (2009/I)
Marion Cotillard for Nine (2009)
Julia Roberts for Duplicity (2009)
Meryl Streep for It’s Complicated (2009)
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia (2009)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees:
Matt Damon for Invictus (2009)
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger (2009/I)
Christopher Plummer for The Last Station (2009)
Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones (2009)
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees:
Penélope Cruz for Nine (2009)
Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air (2009/I)
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air (2009/I)
Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Julianne Moore for A Single Man (2009)

Best Director – Motion Picture
Nominees:
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008)
James Cameron for Avatar (2009)
Clint Eastwood for Invictus (2009)
Jason Reitman for Up in the Air (2009/I)
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Nominees:
District 9 (2009): Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
The Hurt Locker (2008): Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Quentin Tarantino
It’s Complicated (2009): Nancy Meyers
Up in the Air (2009/I): Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
Nominees:
Crazy Heart (2009): T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham(“The Weary Kind”)
Everybody’s Fine (2009): Paul McCartney(“(I Want To) Come Home”)
Nine (2009): Maury Yeston(“Cinema Italiano”)
Brothers (2009/I)(“Winter”)
Avatar (2009)(“I See You”)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Nominees:
The Informant! (2009): Marvin Hamlisch
Up (2009): Michael Giacchino
Where the Wild Things Are (2009): Carter Burwell, Karen Orzolek
Avatar (2009): James Horner
A Single Man (2009): Abel Korzeniowski

Best Animated Film
Nominees:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Coraline (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Up (2009)

Best Foreign Language Film
Nominees:
Los abrazos rotos (2009)
Das weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)
La nana (2009)
Un prophète (2009)
Baarìa (2009)

Best Television Series – Drama
Nominees:
“Big Love” (2006)
“Dexter” (2006)
“House M.D.” (2004)
“Mad Men” (2007)
“True Blood” (2008)

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
“Entourage” (2004)
“Glee” (2009)
“The Office” (2005)
“Modern Family” (2009)
“30 Rock” (2006)

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:
Georgia O’Keeffe (2009) (TV)
Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Into the Storm (2009) (TV)
“Little Dorrit” (2008)
Taking Chance (2009) (TV)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:
Kevin Bacon for Taking Chance (2009) (TV)
Kenneth Branagh for “Wallander” (2008)
Brendan Gleeson for Into the Storm (2009) (TV)
Jeremy Irons for Georgia O’Keeffe (2009) (TV)
Chiwetel Ejiofor for Endgame (2009)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:
Joan Allen for Georgia O’Keeffe (2009) (TV)
Drew Barrymore for Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Jessica Lange for Grey Gardens (2009) (TV)
Anna Paquin for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009) (TV)
Sigourney Weaver for Prayers for Bobby (2009) (TV)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Alec Baldwin for “30 Rock” (2006)
Steve Carell for “The Office” (2005)
David Duchovny for “Californication” (2007)
Thomas Jane for “Hung” (2009)
Matthew Morrison for “Glee” (2009)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Toni Collette for “United States of Tara” (2009)
Courteney Cox for “Cougar Town” (2009)
Edie Falco for “Nurse Jackie” (2009)
Tina Fey for “30 Rock” (2006)
Lea Michele for “Glee” (2009)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Nominees:
Simon Baker for “The Mentalist” (2008)
Michael C. Hall for “Dexter” (2006)
Jon Hamm for “Mad Men” (2007)
Hugh Laurie for “House M.D.” (2004)
Bill Paxton for “Big Love” (2006)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Nominees:
Glenn Close for “Damages” (2007)
January Jones for “Mad Men” (2007)
Julianna Margulies for “The Good Wife” (2009)
Anna Paquin for “True Blood” (2008)
Kyra Sedgwick for “The Closer” (2005)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:
Michael Emerson for “Lost” (2004)
Neil Patrick Harris for “How I Met Your Mother” (2005)
William Hurt for “Damages” (2007)
John Lithgow for “Dexter” (2006)
Jeremy Piven for “Entourage” (2004)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:
Rose Byrne for “Damages” (2007)
Jane Adams for “Hung” (2009)
Jane Lynch for “Glee” (2009)
Janet McTeer for Into the Storm (2009) (TV)
Chloë Sevigny for “Big Love” (2006)

Actors gun for Jennifer Hudson

Photograph by: Mark J. Terrill Credit: AP

Right, so the Creative Workers’ Union of SA is having a go at Jennifer Hudson because she’s been cast to play Winnie Mandela in an upcoming film about the “mother of the nation”. In an article by Sipho Masondo in today’s The Times, he writes “The union said foreign actors should not play leading roles in South African movies because it undermined the growth of the local creative industry.” Read the rest of the story here.

Now I’m waiting to find out more about the casting process of this role and how Ms Hudson got it, but you know what I’m pretty sure it’s because of her talent. As an actor, one is expected to transform into any given character, be it speaking with a different dialect or a change in one’s physique in order to pull off the role. Charlize has done it in America, so why can Hudson not do it in South Africa? Why was this not an issue when Morgan Freeman was cast as Nelson Mandela in Invictus? Come on, the double standards here are priceless.

@ Oupa Lebogo. This is a legitimate question… besides Florence Masebe, who else would play the role better? Also if you look at the caliber of actresses she beat out at the 2007 Oscars, who are we to judge how good she is an actress if she won an Oscar
(Fellow nominees included Adriana Barraza (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)

Yes I agree that the arts aren’t given nearly enough credit that they’re owed, but perhaps instead of pouncing on J Hud, the union should pounce on the president, the arts and culture minister. Tell them to put more money into the arts. Tell them to provide more funding to filmmakers who want to compete (technically) with the rest of the world. In that way film producers won’t have to go out and abroad to look for funding. Film director Anant Singh and actress Florence Masebe make good points, “From a creative point of view we have a great wealth of talent locally. However, it’s very difficult to prescribe how a movie should be made. There are commercial imperatives and if you want a movie to be made you have to do it a certain way. It’s all about balance.
“The integrity of the South African film industry can be maintained. Look at Sarafina. I had [American actress] Whoopi Goldberg, but I also had Leleti Khumalo playing a leading role.” (Singh)

Actress Florence Masebe said the issue was far bigger than “Winnie and Jennifer. Why do Americans and foreigners play the roles we hold so dear? The roles of people we respect. I don’t think [anyone but a South African] can even begin to understand what we mean when we say Winnie is the mother of the nation.” Again I go back to my point on Morgan Freeman playing Madiba….

This is a tricky and rather sensitive subject, I get that. We all know this movie is going to happen, no matter what. So here’s a possible solution I have in mind. Why not have Hudson share some of her skills, secrets into being an A-list actress with local talent when she’s here. Set up a workshop, funded by government one day during shooting, empower the artists by knowledge-sharing? I think instead of lambasting this talented woman, we should look at suggestions and possible solutions rather…

District 9 star joing the A-team?

Fantastic news coming in is that South African actor, Shalto Copley is starting to get attention from Hollywood. The star is currently in talks to star in the the upcoming feature film, The A-Team. The role he’ll play is ‘Howling Mad Murdock’ and he could be staring opposite the lovely, Jessica Biel and other A-listers including Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper (Hollywood ‘it’ boy it would seem), Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and David Richmond-Peck. Well done Shalto, holding thumbs… a male version of Charlize? As Wikus would say, “jou fokken (prawn) biscuit “

- Shalto Copley Wikipedia
- Sharlto Copley in Vanity Fair
- Sharlto joining the A-team?

Rhythm City's Jamie Bartlett on The Von Vodcast

Matt Damon gets his cycle on

He might be portraying former Springbok captain Francois Pienaar in the film Human Factor about Nelson Mandela, but American actor Matt Damon put his rugby boots aside this weekend, in favour of cycling pants and a bicycle. He, together with his brother Kyle, took part in the grueling 110km Cape Argus race race in Cape Town on Sunday. Glad he wasn’t blown off his bike… damn so gail force winds were well hectic!

Matt Damon moved by Zimbabwean crisis

U.S. Actor Matt Damon is in South Africa to shoot a movie about Nelson Mandela. The film is being directed by Clint Eastwood and is apparently called The Human Factor. The star visited a camp in Musina for some 3million refugees from Zimbabwe. The 39-year-old, who together with friends and colleagues Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Don Cheadle, David Pressman and Jerry Weintraub are the founders of the human rights organisation, Not On Our Watch, was visibly moved by what he heard from those in the camp.
Sky News caught up with Damon earlier. See the video here

Hopefully the film’s producers can let us in our a little scoop soon, especially since the film is being shot in South Africa and it’s based on our former president! Let’s hope Good work Matt

On a side note though, Matt Damon was pranked by Darren “Whackhead” Simpson earlier. Listen to this: