Winning actors Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin in True Blood. Twilight, True Blood top Spike TV’s Scream Awards 2009
By Carlin Nguyen
A pair of female twins were standing on a cold windy night. One girl decisively slits her own throat but the other ends up getting the worse of it. Keith Richards mentions to the audience on receiving the Rock Immortal award that “I liked the living legend…but immortal is even better.” Then William Shatner made a surprise appearance, but only to pose a question “This [Star Trek] was big…imagine how big it could have been with me in it?”
Moments like this were frequent at last night’s Spike TV’s Scream Awards 2009 as celebrities from many walks of entertainment came together to celebrate the best in horror, science fiction, and fantasy at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.
Celebs in attendance included Jessica Alba, Taylor Lautner, Quentin Tarantino, Megan Fox, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Kate Bosworth and Harrison Ford.
The crowd gave an ovation when Johnny Depp presented the Rock Immortal award to Richards, lead guitarist of Rolling Stones. Richards himself looked a bit surprised by the award but gave plenty of thanks to the audience for the award.
On receiving the Best Sci-Fi Actress award, Megan Fox made a sincere complement to the crowd as well as mention that despite her comments on her previous movies, at least Transformers started her career.
Amongst all the highlights of the show, the biggest surprise was Shatner. When the latest movie of Star Trek was awarded the Ultimate Screen award, Shatner came up and happily accepted the award even he was not in it.
The big winners from Scream Awards 2009 were the movie, Twilight’ and current television show, True Blood.
Twilight won in four categories – Best Fantasy Film, Best Fantasy Actor (Robert Pattinson) Best Fantasy Actress (Kristen Steward), and Best Breakout Male Performance (Taylor Lautner).
True Blood also won four awards – Best TV show, Best Horror Actor Male (Stephen Moyer) and Best Horror Actor Female (Anna Paquin), and Best Villain (Alexander Skarsgård).
All awards presented at Scream Awards 2009 were decided by online voters from around the world.
The show will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27. For more info: http://www.spike.com/event/scream2009