The People’s Choice Awards announced today its list of nominees for the best in TV, movies, and music. Over 18 million votes were cast online by entertainment buffs to determine the nominees for the show’s 35 categories. Fans can now vote for their favorites to win by visiting PeoplesChoice.com.

Horror and fantasy fared well this year with top noms bestowed upon Summit Entertainment’s Twilight movie and HBO’s “True Blood” cable series. But, not all the nominees sucked (I mean that  figuratively … or do I?). Also scoring some much deserved nods were J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, Showtime’s “Dexter” and TV’s best drama ever – “Lost.”

The People’s Choice Awards will be hosted by Queen Latifah at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The show will be broadcast live on CBS on Jan. 6, 2010. Now, check out some of the contenders and their competition (horror/fantasy noms are in bold):

"Don't Mistake Coincidence for Fate."

Best TV Drama: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS),” “Grey’s Anatomy (ABC),” “House (FOX),” “NCIS (CBS),” and “Lost (ABC).”

Best TV Drama Actor: Hugh Laurie (”House”), Kiefer Sutherland (”24″), Mark Harmon (”NCIS”), Patrick Dempsey (”Grey’s Anatomy”), and Mathew Fox (”Lost”).

Best TV Drama Actress: Anna Paquin (”True Blood”), Blake Lively (”Gossip Girl”), Jennifer Love Hewitt (”Ghost Whisperer), Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy), Mariska Hargitay (”Law & Order: SVU”)

"The Mask is Slipping."

Best TV Obsession: “Dexter,” “Gossip Girl,” “The Hills,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “True Blood.”

Best TV Sci-fi/Fantasy: “Heroes,” “Lost,” “Supernatural,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “True Blood.”

Best New TV Drama: “Eastwick,” “FlashForward,” “Melrose Place,” “Mercy,” “The Forgotten,” “The Good Wife,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Three Rivers,” “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “V.”

Dude, Get Some Sun ... Oh, Wait ...

Best Movie Actor: Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson (Twilight), Ryan Reynolds.

Best Movie Actress: Anna Hathaway, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Sandra Bullock

Best Action Star: Christian Bale (Terminator: Salvation), Gerard Butler, Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Shia LaBeouf (Transformers 2), Vin Diesel.

Best Independent Movie: (500) Days of Summer, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Paranormal Activity, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail.

Best Breakout Movie Actress: Anna Kendrick (Twilight), Emily Osment, Ginnifer Goodwin, Miley Cyrus, Zoe Saldana (Star Trek).

Best Breakout Movie Actor: Chris Pine (Star Trek), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sam Worthington (Terminator: Salvation), Taylor Lautner (Twilight), Zachary Quinto (Star Trek).

Are You Out of Your Vulcan Minds?

Best Franchise: Harry Potter, Star Trek, The Twilight Saga, Transformers, X-Men.

Favorite Movie: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star Trek, The Hangover, The Proposal, Twilight.

Favorite Web Celeb: Andy Samberg, Ashton Kutcher, Miley Cyrus, P. Diddy, Will Ferrell, and Eddie Muertos.

Remember the Swedish Bikini Team? Sure, they were American actresses playing Swedes to hawk Old Milwaukee beer. But, in retrospect, we all know they were selling us more than just booze. They were selling us on the idea of a physically superior race of women found in a magical far-off land know only as Scandinavia. It was a beautiful dream to have as we slipped into our inebriated comas.

Swedish Erotica

But, was it really just a dream? No, my friends, it’s all real. Turns out there is a Scandinavia and its inhabitants are a blonde and big-breasted people. How do I know this? Because Scandinavian studio FilmKoncept has released the following trailer for its upcoming slasher Mara.

Mara stars Scandinavian glamor/nude model Angelica Jansson as a vacationing coed tormented by something evil in her past. She and her beautiful (and authentically Swedish) friends must figure out how to appease the dark force or end up as dead meatballs.

Update: For official Mara poster and synopsis, click here. To see nude & semi-nude photos of Angelica Jansson, go here.

The film is slated for a 2010 release and is produced by Fredrik Hedberg, Jacob Kondrup and Åke Gustafsson. To see a gallery of screen shots, click here. Clatto also stumbled upon the following BTS trailer:

Oh, yes, there will be blood (and boobs).

Eli Roth's 'Cotton'

Looks like horror makers have found a new weapon of choice: the shaky-cam. Next year will see a spike in hand-held horror projects, including Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) and Strike Entertainment’s (Dawn of the Dead) exorcism tale Cotton and Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment’s similarly plotted The Vatican Tapes. Can these “docu-drama’ inspired flicks mimic the box office success of Paramount Pictures Paranormal Activity? Depends on the marketing campaigns.

The Blair Witch Marketing Project

Ten years ago, The Blair Witch Project successfully intertwined the cinema verite approach with innovative marketing to scare up over a $100 mil at the box office. Imitators followed of course, but lacked the imagination, in story and promotion, necessary to match the Blair Witch’s success. Not surprisingly, the style was pretty much abandoned. Until now.

The First 'Cloverfield' Ads

Crafty marketing campaigns are shaking things up again. J.J. Abrams sci-fi/monster flick Cloverfield gobbled up over $170 million worldwide. Peter Jackson’s aliens-meet-apartheid film District 9 broke free with over $200 mil worldwide. And, in just seven weeks, Paranormal Activity has grossed $100 million in the U.S. alone. Even the inexpensive zombie flick Quarantine (based on the critically acclaimed Spanish shaky-cam frightener Rec) ate up over $35 mil during its run last Halloween.

Eli Roth and Strike Entertainment’s Cotton is directed by Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death) and employs shaky-cam techniques to capture an evangelical minister’s last exorcism in documentary fashion. It’s an interesting concept for sure. But, Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment have done Roth one better by roping in Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh (Man on Wire) to direct The Vatican Tapes. I’s unclear what may have possessed Marsh to take the gig, but his expertise in the Doc genre will surely benefit the project, a “docu-drama” centered on the unholy events that occur after tapes from a botched exorcism come to light.

'Vatican Tapes' Director & Oscar Winner James Marsh (On Right)