'Twilight' Fans Fight Back After Razzies Diss

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Hooray! ‘Twilight’ is going out on top — the franchise won an award at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on Jan. 10, making their Razzies diss pretty ironic!

The Twilight Saga won Fan Favorite Franchise at the 2013 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, which aired Jan. 10 on The CW. It’s certainly well deserved!

Twilight won in the first-ever fan-voted category, making the award that much more special to the cast. Unfortunately, none of the cast showed for the event.

The nominees in the category included: Batman, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, James Bond/007, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Toy Story and Twilight.

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Breaking Dawn Part 2 was nominated for 11 Razzies, including Worst Picture! It seems ironic now that the Twilight franchise was voted fan favorite at the Critics’ Choice Awards.

Full List Of Critics’ Choice Award Winners

Best Acting Ensemble: Silver Linings Playbook

Best Young Actor/Actress: Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Actress In An Action Movie: Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games

Best Actor In An Action Movie: Daniel Craig – Skyfall

Best Action Movie: Skyfall

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables

Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman — The Master

Best Foreign Language Film: Amour

The Critics’ Choice Louis XIII Genius Award: Judd Apatow

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie: Looper

Best Cinematography: Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda

Best Art Direction: Anna Karenina — Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer, Katie Spencer/Set Decorator

Best Editing: Zero Dark Thirty — William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor

Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran

Best Makeup: Cloud Atlas

Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi

Best Actress In A Comedy: Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actor In A Comedy: Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Comedy Movie: Silver Linings Playbook

Favorite Film Franchise (Fan Voted): The Twilight Saga

Best Director: Ben Affleck – Argo

Best Animated Feature: Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man

Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained

Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner – Lincoln

Best Song: “Skyfall” – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall

Best Score: Lincoln – John Williams

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

Best Picture: Argo

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Are you happy Twilight won an award at the Critics’ Choice Awards? Did it deserve the win?

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I don’t understand why Hunger Games gets praised for killing kids and Twilight gets ridiculed for a sweet love story. But I’m one of those ridiculous old grandmothers who is obsessed with Robert(lol).

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Miss, I’m 14, but I couldn’t have put it better :D Pride and Prejudice, I guess (Jane Austen really was on to something with that…)… Ah, well, we have to vote for Adam Sandler, then :D

Well-deserved Razzies and Twilight deserves to win every one of them!! Twilight didn’t make it this far because it was actually a good story – it’s because the amateur author “accidentally” got everyone overly-obsessed with it. She could have written any ‘ol ending in Breaking Dawn (and that seems like what she did), and SMeyer’s addicted fanbase would have lapped it up like honey (and they did – except for the peeps who rejected it, but we never hear about THOSE ex-fans anymore, do we?)
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I have no idea who the voting members of the Razzie Group is but when you criticize the most popular movie series ever made and you ridicule a cast of young unknowns when the series began, and look at them now all you are saying is you are ignorant about what the viewing public wants. I am tired of blood, guts, killings, blatant sex and vulgarity. Obviously there are a lot of movie goers who feel the same way. Start making more quality movies and stop belittling what appeals to the average movie goer.

Some good points, Tom. I was amazed at the cross section of moviegoers at BD2 – young couples, parents with young teens, older people, too. Also, quite a few men. Yes, they took a cast of unknowns and made them into stars. Some will have great careers, some won’t. The future is up to them but they have been given the chance and their fans are happy. We do need more movies that do not emphasize blatant sex and vulgarity.

And, the other point is how the cast deals with the fame. How the LEADS deal with the fame and their life… that’s the magic of it, I guess. A real love story within a fictional one :)

Exactly. People can’t deal with it. We’ll SO prove them wrong…

Kristen looks so young it that Twilight poster :)

She’d just turned 17. When they started filming, she couldn’t even do night shoots.As soon as her b-day came they gave her a cake that said, welcome to night shoots.

It´s unfair not to get more recognition…I´ve never seen such a big fan base as that created by twilight…..Let alone the millions of dollars this franchise has generated in the movie business!!!!

@ Sandra Goncalves:
I agree.

If they were such good actors as they are handsome, they would be in the Academy Awards not in this category, since beauty is not enough, it is a good lesson for life!

@ Rosita: the saga was meant for teens, not to be seriously deep. The saga does have a teenaged ratings attatched.

maybe they have to get ugly.A lot of actors have to get ugly in a movie before they can get recognized by Oscar.They’re still young though and have plenty of time.

It’s a shame that Twilight didn’t get more recognition, this franchise has made billions of dollars for all involved, doesn’t that count for something??

@ TRACY123 : It should and I agree. Outside of Harry Potter and Star Wars,I cannot remember any saga (series, franchise, whatever you call them) that has had anywhere near the fanbase that Twilight has.

Tracy123 – I believe the Twilight Saga has received recognition from its millions of fans who have gone to these movies and love the actors involved. Many movies that have received Oscars were totally boring to me, especially the ones being raved over by the Hollywood elite. Ben Affleck’s awsome ARGO is being snubbed at the Oscars but an American history drama Lincoln is right up there. If there was an award for the most successful franchise is movie history, then without a doubt, it would go to Twilight and guess what – no foul language, over the top sexual situations or ugly sets or – well, I could go on and on.

EXACTLY… finally someone thinks like ME… It’s not about Oscars, though. If you think about it, this is one of the rarest awards out there, because it’s the first. There are more Oscars on the planet than MTV Movie Awards. Technically, if you think about it, Oscars aren’t that precious at all… but it’s about the sense of community. Our fans stick together when they have a purpose, not like others (although they sometimes take TOO MUCH interest in the actors’ lives…). And about there being no stuff that can be considered ‘rude’? That just proves that a franchise doesn’t need to be overtly ‘adult’ to get recognised :)