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Who needs critics? Who needs experts? Since the dawn of the internet and the democratization of entertainment, who really needs someone to tell them what is good and what is not good? Clearly, the people who made up the list of nominees below — the 18 million voters of the People’s Choice Awards — need some assistance.

It is sad — void of great drama such as Mad Men and full of teenie-bopper schlock like Twilight — but also triumphant, as it makes me feel great about my own job security. Thank you America, for once again proving that you need me.

The 2009 People’s Choice Awards will air on January 6, 2010 on CBS. For more, including all of the music nominations, check out People’s Choice.com. All of the television, film and web-related categories are below.

TV drama:

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Grey’s Anatomy
• House
• Lost
• NCIS

TV comedy:

• Desperate Housewives
• How I Met Your Mother
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Office
• Two and a Half Men

TV dramatic actor:

• Hugh Laurie
• Kiefer Sutherland
• Mark Harmon
• Matthew Fox
• Patrick Dempsey

TV dramatic actress:

• Anna Paquin
• Blake Lively
• Jennifer Love Hewitt
• Katherine Heigl
• Mariska Hargitay

TV comedic actor:

• Alex Baldwin
• Charlie Sheen
• Jim Parsons
• Neil Patrick Harris
• Steve Carell

TV comedic actress:

• Alyson Hannigan
• America Ferrera
• Amy Poehler
• Eva Longoria Parker
• Tina Fey

TV obsession:

• Dexter
• Gossip Girl
• The Hills
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager
• True Blood

TV talk show:

• Chelsea Lately
• Live with Regis & Kelly
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• The Oprah Winfrey Show
• The Tyra Banks Show

TV sci-fi/fantasy:

• Heroes
• Lost
• Supernatural
• The Vampire Diaries
• True Blood

TV competition show:

• American Idol
• Dancing With the Stars
• Project Runway
• So You Think You Can Dance
• Survivor: Samoa

Animal show:

• Animal Cops
• DogTown
• Dog Whisperer
• It’s Me or the Dog
• Rescue Ink

New TV drama:

• Eastwick
• FlashForward
• Melrose Place
• Mercy
• The Forgotten
• The Good Wife
• The Vampire Diaries
• Three Rivers
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• V

New TV comedy:

• Accidentally on Purpose
• Brothers
• Community
• Cougar Town
• Glee
• Hank
• The Cleveland Show
• The Middle
• Modern Family

Movie actor:

• Brad Pitt
• Hugh Jackman
• Johnny Depp
• Robert Pattinson
• Ryan Reynolds

Movie actress:

• Anna Hathaway
• Drew Barrymore
• Jennifer Aniston
• Kristen Stewart
• Sandra Bullock

Action star:

• Christian Bale
• Gerard Butler
• Hugh Jackman
• Shia LaBeouf
• Vin Diesel

Comedic star:

• Adam Sandler
• Ben Stiller
• Jim Carrey
• Ryan Reynolds
• Vince Vaughn

Breakout movie actress:

• Anna Kendrick
• Emily Osment
• Ginnifer Goodwin
• Miley Cyrus
• Zoe Saldana

Breakout movie actor:

• Chris Pine
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Sam Worthington
• Taylor Lautner
• Zachary Quinto

On-screen team:

• Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”;
• Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, “The Proposal”;
• Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, “The Twilight Saga”;
• Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”;
• Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan and Daniel Henney, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”

Family movie:

• Hannah Montana: The Movie
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
• Up
• Where the Wild Things Are

Independent movie:

• (500) Days of Summer
• District 9
• Inglourious Basterds
• Paranormal Activity
• Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail

Franchise:

• Harry Potter
• Star Trek
• The Twilight Saga
• Transformers
• X-Men

Comedy movie:

• 17 Again
• Bride Wars
• He’s Just Not That Into You
• The Hangover
• The Proposal

Favorite movie:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Star Trek
• The Hangover
• The Proposal
• Twilight

Web celeb:

• Andy Samberg
• Ashton Kutcher
• Miley Cyrus
• P. Diddy
• Will Ferrell