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20.10.09 # 14:53 # News # 14 Comments
The Scream 2009 awards ceremony, where fans get a chance to honour their favourite films and TV shows of the year, took place at the weekend. The point of the ceremony is to honour the genres traditionally ignored by the more stuffy awards shows, such as horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic adaptations. The event won’t actually air until October 27th on Spike TV in the US, but here are the big winners of the night.
The teenage fad rich cinema of Twilight came out on top with four awards for Best Fantasy Film, Best Fantasy Actor for both Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart and Breakout Performance for co-star Taylor Lautner [so good the production wanted to sack him after the first movie - ed.].
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen collected a baffling three awards proving that there really is no accounting for taste. The gongs were Best Special Effects, Breakout Performance for Isabel Lucas (Alice - the shapeshifting humanoid robot tiger thing that seduces Shia LaBeouf) and Best Actress for Megan Fox [that's it, I'm outta here - ed.]. Anyone remember her actually acting in that? All I can remember is:
Star Trek took three gongs of its own, Best Sci-fi Film, Best Director and Ultimate Scream (film of the year, basically). Shockingly, William Shatner went on stage to collect the award for Ultimate Scream from a bemused Morgan Freeman. Shatner told a seated director Abrams, “J.J., I’ll handle this. This movie was big. Imagine how big it could have been with me in it? … I’ll be waiting for your call.”
Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire presented comic book God Stan Lee with the Comic-Con Icon award for his services to the comics industry over the past sixty years.
Quentin Tarantino presented the Scream Mastermind award to the legendary George A. Romero for his services to the horror genre, including, you know, starting it with Night of the Living Dead and continuing to evolve it with the forthcoming Survival of the Dead.
Finally, Johnny Depp presented the Rock Immortal award to his inspiration for Jack Sparrow, Keith Richards. The Rolling Stones received a standing ovation, stating, “I liked the living legend, that was all right, but immortal is even better.”
Above: The man who carried Orlando Bloom through nine hours of film.
Above: He once fell out of a tree.
Also presenting awards were Jessica Alba, Kate Bosworth, Harrison Ford, Justin Long and Christina Ricci. Scream 2009 airs on October 27th.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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Great report. I almost want to see it now.
maybe some of the lames will start relizeing that when a movie makes 400 million alot of people liked it
That’s true. But do you honestly think than Megan Fox gave the best female performance in a movie in the last year? Come on!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Miss Fox is the only actress in the history of cinema to be humped by a tiny robot. She wins for that acting challenge alone.
i cant think of a movie that i saw where there was a lot of good acting anyway this year by a female really only watch action and comedys though to be fair
Nothing for District 9? That beats Star Trek for me (even though I loved the Star Trek movie).
Never heard of these Scream awards before. Do they have cooler categories like “Most original way to stop the undead” and “Lamest use of time travel to solve a plot conundrum”?
Here’s why Thom. Transformers 2 and Star Trek are both Paramount. Paramount is owned by Viacom. Spike TV (who do the Scream Awards) are owned by Viacom. Viacom also own MTV, and if you watch their awards they are always rigged in favour of Paramount’s big films. In MTV’s case they even invent new categories as a one off each year just so Transformers, or whatever their tent poles are, can be included.
Thanks for the clarification Sheridan. So really it’s all just a bit of back-slapping publicity.
I think they could be on to something…
Maybe this site could do a “Best Movie related web site” award show and you can award all the prizes to yourself?
Good idea, and we’ll invent a category for you to win, what would you like it to be?
Hmmm … how about “Best article commenter, from the UK, during work hours”
Done. Congratulations. Is there anyone you’d like to thank?
So many options for the acceptance speech. Should I;
a) Not thank anyone as I am solely responsible for my greatness.
b) Thank everyone under the sun, from family members to passers by that smiled at me in the street.
c) Break down into fits of incomprehensible blubbing.
d) Use it as a platform for a political debate.
I want an award for Fewest Comments Made by Someone Who Is Watching P DIDDY’S STARMAKER At The Same Time.
Good to see Romero getting some love.
Only wish his modern output (from “Two Evil Eyes” onward) wasn’t so hit and miss.
If “Survival of the Dead” even comes close to “Land of the Dead” quality (no classic to be sure), I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Like George Lucase with the ‘Star Wars’ prequels, there’s no shame in getting a co-writer at a certain point.