The 2011 People’s Choice Awards ceremony wasn’t much in the viewing or listening department — filled as it was with strange, short, mostly uncomfortable acceptance speeches and sound problems that went from spotty to leaving Selena Gomez nearly silent for a verse of her live performance of her hit “A Year Without Rain.” But it was certainly full of winners as one celebrity after another made their way to center stage and grabbed their Waterford Crystal People’s Choice Awards trophy. As for winners, Fox Television did well, sweeping all the major television categories: Favorite TV Drama, Favorite Competition Show, Favorite TV Crime Drama, Favorite Sci-Fi Fantasy Show, and Favorite TV Comedy. “House M.D.” took home four awards (including “Drama”), leading the way. In Movies, “Twilight” was the big winner, with “Eclipse” and Kristen Stewart pulling in four as well. In music, Eminem led the way with four.
Except for favorite new shows and “Guilty Plea, Fox Television literally cleaned house. American Idol took home the Competition Show 2011 Award. Lie To Me won for TV Crime Drama and for TV Crime Fighter (Tim Roth as Dr. Cal Lightman) The fascinating Fringe was the winner of Sci-Fi Fantasy Show award. Glee continued its roll, winning TV Comedy and securing a Favorite Comedy Actress award for the incomparable Jane Lynch. The ever lovable Simpsons won for Favorite TV family. But it was the misanthropic Gregory House that led the way to four awards for “House M.D.,” taking in TV Drama, Favorite TV Drama Actor (Hugh Laurie), Favorite TV Doctor (Hugh Laurie as Gregory House), and Favorite TV Drama Actress (Lisa Edelstein as Lisa Cuddy).
CBS seemed to get most of the rest, pulling in three: Favorite TV Comedy Actor (Neil Patrick Harris for “How I Met Your Mother”), Favorite New Drama (“Hawaii Five-O”), and Favorite New Comedy (“$#*! My Dad Says”).
As for the movies, the “Twilight Saga” was the big winner for the night. The blockbuster won the 2011 People’s Choice Awards for both Favorite Movie and Drama Movie. Favorite On-Screen Team went to Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner for their work in “Twilight Saga: Eclipse.” Kristen Stewart also won for Favorite Movie Actress.
Over in the Music category, Eminem went home with four of those Waterford Crystal trophies. His hit song “Love The Way You Lie,” which featured Rihanna (who won for Favorite Pop Artist), was the winner of Favorite Song and Music Video. Eminem also won for Favorite Hip Hop Artist and Male Artist.
Katy Perry won two 2011 People’s Choice Awards: Favorite Female Artist and Online Obsession.
Johnny Depp was the winner for Favorite Movie Actor. Zac Efron Won for Favorite Movie Actor Under 25.
Adam Sandler won for Favorite Comic Star, then immediately got up on stage and tried to prove that he didn’t deserve it. His movie “Grownups” also won for Favorite Comedy Movie.
Some say that Jennifer Aniston stole the show by bending over into the short stage microphone (what was up with that stationary mike anyway?) before presenting Adam Sandler his award. Not to take nothing away from her daring baring of a good portion of her chest, but the only thing truly stolen on the 2011 People’s Choice Awards was two hours of a potential good viewing experience…
The biggest loser of the night? Anybody actually sitting all the way through the entirety of that technical difficulty-plagued ceremony (of which this writer is guilty of sitting through — and becoming severely disappointed). At least Selena Gomez (and the Scene) won the Breakout Artist award, partially making up for the butchering the sound engineers did on the beginning of her song. From Queen Latifah’s desperately contrived hosting (which was surprising, because she has done far better hosting prior People’s Choice Awards shows) to the ridiculous cutaways to give away gift bags, the show was an unmitigated disaster. Better to have skipped it altogether and read this short synopsis and the following full list of winners.
2011 People’s Choice Awards Winners
MOVIES
Movie
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Drama Movie
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Action Movie
Iron Man 2
Family Movie
Toy Story 3
Comedy Movie
Grown Ups
Favorite Horror Movie
Nightmare on Elm Street
Movie Actor
Johnny Depp
Movie Actress
Kristen Stewart
Comic Star
Adam Sandler
Action Star
Jackie Chan
Favorite Star Under 25
Zac Effron
On Screen Team
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner
TELEVISION
Sci-Fi Fantasy show
Fringe
TV Crime Drama
Lie to me
Competition Show
American Idol
TV Drama
House
TV Comedy
Glee
Family TV Movie
Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam
TV Comedy Actor
Neil Patrick Harris — “How I Met Your Mother”
TV Comedy Actress
Jane Lynch — “Glee”
TV Drama Actor
Hugh Laurie — “House”
TV Drama Actress
Lisa Edelstein — “House”
TV Guest Star
Demi Lovato — “Grey’s Anatomy”
TV Crime Fighter
Tim Roth — “Lie to me”
TV Doctor
Gregory House
Hugh Laurie
TV Family
The Simpsons
Talk show host
Conan O’Brien
TV Chef
Rachael Ray
TV Obsession
Dexter
TV Guilty Pleasure
Keeping Up With The Kardashians
New TV Comedy
$#*! My Dad Says
New TV Drama
Hawaii Five-OMUSIC
Male Artist
Eminem
Female Artist
Katy Perry
Country Artist
Taylor Swift
Pop Artist
Rihanna
R& B Artist
Usher
Hip-Hop Artist
Eminem
Rock Band
Paramore
Breakout Artist
Selena Gomez & The Scene
Music Video
“Love the way you Lie” by Eminem
Featuring Rihanna
Favorite Song
“Love the way you Lie”
Eminem featuring Rihanna
WEB
On-line Sensation
Katy Perry
Viral Video Star
“Single Ladies Devastation”
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To see the competitors for the awards, see complete list of 2011 People’s Choice Awards nominations.
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Source:
“37th Annual People’s Choice Awards,” CBS Television
“And the winners are…,” PeoplesChoice.com
