Scream 2009 Nominees Announced

There is some good and bad with this year's crop of Scream Awards nominees. That's nothing new for any awards show, though. In this case, the good as that Let the Right One In, among of the best films of 2008 in any category, has as many nominations as just about anything else. Can the other teenage vampire movie come home a winner? Certainly in some categories it feels that way. On the down side, you know you have too many awards when The Spirit receives two acting nominations...and it's not even Jaime King's only acting nomination of the year. The Scream Awards honors the best in horror, sci-fi, comic books, and fantasy, and on the whole, mixes the nominees between TV and movies where applicable, so you'll see True Blood competing with horror movies and Pushing Daisies in the fantasy category with Harry Potter. I kind of like that approach, especially for fan awards and in a climate where TV programming is leveling the playing field with film, which has certainly been the case for several years now. Spike TV puts together the show, and the awards will be handed out on October 17th at the Greek in Los Angeles...but it won't air for another ten days. Well done, Spike. Well done. Check out all the nominees in each of the 32 categories below: The Ultimate Scream:
Drag Me to Hell
Let the Right One In
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Twilight
Up
Best Horror Movie:
Dead Snow
Drag Me to Hell
Friday the 13th
Let the Right One In
My Bloody Valentine 3-D
Splinter
Best Sci-Fi Movie:
Knowing
Moon
Outlander
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Best Fantasy Movie:
Coraline
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Twilight
Up
Watchmen
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Best TV Show:
Battlestar Gallactica
Dexter
Fringe
Lost
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
True Blood
Best Horror Actress:
Jennifer Carpenter (Quarantine)
Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine 3-D)
Lina Leandersson (Let the Right One In)
Alison Lohman (Drag Me to Hell)
Anna Paquin (True Blood)
Monica Potter (The Last House on the Left)
Best Horror Actor:
Bruce Campbell (My Name is Bruce)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
Kare Hedebrant (Let the Right One In)
Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell)
Ryan Kwanten (True Blood)
Stephen Moyer (True Blood)
Best Fantasy Actress:
Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies)
Scarlett Johansson (The Spirit)
Jaime King (The Spirit)
Rhona Mitra (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans)
Kristen Stewart (Twilight)
Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Best Fantasy Actor:
Ed Asner (Up)
Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Robert Pattinson (Twilight)
Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Michael Sheen (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans)
Best Sci-Fi Actress:
Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation)
Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse)
Megan Fox (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Lena Headey (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Gallactica)
Zoe Saldana (Star Trek)
Best Sci-Fi Actor:
Nicolas Cage (Knowing)
Josh Holloway (Lost)
Shia LaBeouf (Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Chris Pine (Star Trek)
Zachary Quinto (Star Trek)
Sam Rockwell (Moon)
Best Supporting Actress:
Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter)
Ashley Greene (Twilight)
Carla Gugino (Watchmen)
Evanna Lynch (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Shirley Manson (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
Rutina Wesley (True Blood)
Best Supporting Actor:
Ryan Reynolds (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Simon Pegg (Star Trek)
Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek)
Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Ruper Grint (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Nelsan Ellis (True Blood)
Breakout Performance Female:
Anna Torv (Fringe)
Zoe Saldana (Star Trek)
Lorna Raver (Drag Me to Hell)
Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Lina Leandersson (Let the Right One In)
Malin Akerman (Watchmen)
Breakout Performance Male:
Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Taylor Lautner (Twilight)
Robert Pattinson (Twilight)
Chris Pine (Star Trek)
Will.I.Am (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation)
Best Cameo:
Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans)
Helena Bonham Carter (Terminator Salvation)
Winona Ryder (Star Trek)
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Face (Terminator Salvation)
Patrick Stewart (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Rainn Wilson (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Best Ensemble:
Battlestar Gallactica
Lost
Star Trek
True Blood
Twilight
Watchmen
Best Director:
JJ Abrams (Star Trek)
Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In)
Michael Bay (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Pete Docter and Bob Peterson (Up)
Duncan Jones (Moon)
Sam Raimi (Drag Me to Hell)
Best Foreign Movie:
Dead Snow (Norway)
Eden Lake (England)
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Martyrs (France)
Pontypool (Canada)
Timecrimes (Spain)
Best Sequel:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Punisher: War Zone
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Best F/X:
Drag Me to Hell
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Watchmen
Scream Song of the Year:
"War Zone" by Rob Zombie (Punisher: War Zone)
"New Divide" by Linkin Park (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
"Other Father Song" by They Might be Giants (Coraline)
"Desolation Row" by My Chemical Romance (Watchmen)
"Decode" by Paramore (Twilight)
"Bad Things" by Jace Everett (True Blood)
Best Comic Book Artist:
Tony Harris and Jim Clark (Ex Machina)
Steve McNiven (Wolverine: Old Man Logan)
Eric Powell (The Goon)
Frank Quitely (All-Star Superman, Batman and Robin)
Ivan Reis (Green Lantern)
John Romita Jr. (Amazin Spider-Man, Kick-Ass)
Best Villain:
Eric Bana as Nero (Star Trek)
Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Cam Gigandet as James (Twilight)
Lorna Raver as Mrs. Ganush (Drag Me to Hell)
Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed/Sabretooth (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Alexander Skarsgard as Eric Northman (True Blood)
Best Superhero:
Ray Stevenson as The Punisher (Punisher: War Zone)
Taylor Kitsch as Remy Lebeau/Gambit (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)
Billy Crudup as Doctor Manhatta (Watchmen)
Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre II (Watchmen)
Best Scream-Play:
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi)
Let the Right One In (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
Moon (Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker)
Star Trek (Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman)
Up (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy)
Most Memorable Mutilation:
Splinter (The Arm Removal Surgery)
Watchmen (Arms Cut Off by Rotary Saw)
Drag Me to Hell (The Eye Ball Cake)
Dead Snow (Head Ripped Apart by Nazi Zombies)
Saw V (The Pendulum Trap)
Let the Right One In (The Swiming Pool Scene)
Fight-to-the-Death Scene of the Year:
Drag Me to Hell (The Car Fight)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Logan and Victor vs Weapon XI)
Dead Snow (Martin and Roy vs the Nazi Zombies)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Optimus Prime vs The Fallen)
Star Trek (Kirk vs Spock)
Watchmen (Ozymandias vs The Comedian)
Holy S***! Scene of the Year:
Let the Right One In (Swimming Pool Scene)
Knowing (The Subway Crash)
Drag Me to Hell (The Seance)
Star Trek (Space Dive onto Orbital Drill)
Watchmen (The Destruction of Manhattan)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Death Eaters Attack London)
Best Comic Book:
Green Lantern
Hack/Slash
Kick-Ass
Thor
The Walking Dead
Wolverine: Old Man Logan
Best Comic Book Writer:
Brian Michael Bendis (Dark Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man)
Joe Hill (Locke & Key)
Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman, Batman and Final Crisis)
Geoff Johns (Green Lantern, Justice Society of America)
Mark Millar (Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Kick-Ass)
Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina)
Best Comic Book Movie:
Dragonball Evolution
Punisher: War Zone
The Spirit
Watchmen
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Comments

[anybody]

Some ridiculous nominees (Malin Ackerman? maybe the worst of the year) but looks like a fun awards show. There are some gems in there (Worthington, Vaughan and Harris, Let the Right One In, Bloodgood and Bad Things). I don't know if Skarsgard is really the villain on True Blood but sure, I'll bite...

[Jamie]

Helena Bonham Carter should definitely win her categories, she is sensational in Harry Potter, and she was really good in Terminator too.

[David]

Evanna Lynch nominated was unexpected but is amazing. She's deserves some recognition.