Twilight series in the running for five awards at National Movie Awards

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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The Twilight series scooped five nominations at this year's National Movie Awards.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is battling it out against 3D adventures Avatar and Alice In Wonderland in the fantasy category of the awards, which are voted for by the public.


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Meanwhile the next chapter in the tale, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, is vying to be named the most anticipated movie of the summer, against the likes of The A-Team, The Karate Kid, Shrek Forever After and Sex And The City 2.

Twilight actors Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner were nominated against each other for the performance of the year.

The category is also a battle for Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince actors, with Emma Watson, named in February by Vanity Fair magazine as Hollywood's highest-paid female star, in the running alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

The Harry Potter movie is also nominated in the family category.

Voting forms for the winners are being made available in UK cinemas, national newspapers and magazines.

The glitzy award bash, celebrating the most successful films shown in the UK, will take place in London and air live on ITV1 in late May.

Elaine Bedell, ITV's director of entertainment and comedy, said: "The National Movie Awards celebrate the very best of what the film industry has offered from the past year and for the first time ever our viewers will have a front row seat for all the action as it happens live on ITV1."

The public can also vote for their favourites online at www.nationalmovieawards.com.


National Movie Awards 2010 shortlist:

:: Most Anticipated Movie of the Summer
Knight And Day
Sex And The City 2
Shrek Forever After
Step Up 3D
The A-Team
The Karate Kid
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Toy Story 3
:: Action/Thriller
Inglourious Basterds
Kick-Ass
Sherlock Holmes
Shutter Island
2012
:: Family
A Christmas Carol
Alvin And The Chipmunks II: The Squeakquel
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang
Up
:: Breakthrough Movie
Coco Before Chanel
Harry Brown
Nativity!
Paranormal Activity
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Time Traveler's Wife
:: Fantasy
Alice In Wonderland
Avatar
Clash Of The Titans
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
:: Performance of the Year - Male/Female
Gemma Arterton (Clash Of The Titans)
Helena Bonham Carter (Alice In Wonderland)
Jim Carrey (A Christmas Carol)
John Cusack (2012)
Johnny Depp (Alice In Wonderland)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island)
Robert Downey Jr (Sherlock Holmes)
Rupert Grint (Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince)
Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass)
Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: New Moon)
Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes)
Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: New Moon)
Brad Pitt (Inglourious Basterds)
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince)
Zoe Saldana (Avatar)
Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: New Moon)
Emma Thompson (Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang)
Emma Watson (Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince)
Sam Worthington (Avatar/Clash Of The Titans)

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