Nominations were announced Monday for the 36th annual People's Choice Awards, to be presented Jan. 6 at a ceremony hosted by Queen Latifah.
The short list of potential nominees for the awards was determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses, music sales and input from TV Guide magazine and Playlist.com; it was vetted through Visible Measures, the independent third-party measurement firm for Internet video.
After that process generated the top 12 candidates per category, fans cast more than 16 million votes online to select the nominees.
Voting is now open through Dec. 8 at www.peopleschoice.com and www.myspace.com/peopleschoiceawards for all 35 categories except Favorite New TV Drama and Favorite New TV Comedy, which will remain open for voting until the night of the show.
Mark Burnett produces the awards show, which will be held at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live. Fans can purchase tickets through Ticketmaster.
And the nominees are:
FAVORITE TV DRAMA
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Grey's Anatomy
House
Lost
NCIS
FAVORITE TV COMEDY
Desperate Housewives
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
The Office
Two and a Half Men
FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTOR
Hugh Laurie
Kiefer Sutherland
Mark Harmon
Matthew Fox
Patrick Dempsey
FAVORITE TV DRAMA ACTRESS
Anna Paquin
Blake Lively
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Katherine Heigl
Mariska Hargitay
FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTOR
Alec Baldwin
Charlie Sheen
Jim Parsons
Neil Patrick Harris
Steve Carell
FAVORITE TV COMEDY ACTRESS
Alyson Hannigan
America Ferrera
Amy Poehler
Eva Longoria Parker
Tina Fey
FAVORITE TV OBSESSION
Dexter
Gossip Girl
The Hills
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
True Blood
FAVORITE TALK SHOW (Mobile Voting Category)
Chelsea Lately
Live with Regis & Kelly
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Tyra Banks Show
FAVORITE SCI-FI/FANTASY TV SHOW (Mobile Voting Category)
Heroes
Lost
Supernatural
The Vampire Diaries
True Blood
FAVORITE COMPETITION SHOW
American Idol
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Survivor: Samoa
FAVORITE ANIMAL SHOW
Animal Cops
Dog Town
Dog Whisperer
It's Me or the Dog
Rescue Ink Unleashed
FAVORITE NEW TV DRAMA
Eastwick
FlashForward
Melrose Place
Mercy
The Forgotten
The Good Wife
The Vampire Diaries
Three Rivers
NCIS: Los Angeles
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FAVORITE NEW TV COMEDY
Accidentally on Purpose
Brothers
Community
Cougar Town
Glee
Hank
The Cleveland Show
The Middle
Modern Family
FAVORITE MOVIE ACTOR
Brad Pitt
Hugh Jackman
Johnny Depp
Robert Pattinson
Ryan Reynolds
FAVORITE MOVIE ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway
Drew Barrymore
Jennifer Aniston
Kristen Stewart
Sandra Bullock
FAVORITE ACTION STAR
Christian Bale
Gerard Butler
Hugh Jackman
Shia LaBeouf
Vin Diesel
FAVORITE COMEDIC STAR
Adam Sandler
Ben Stiller
Jim Carrey
Ryan Reynolds
Vince Vaughn
FAVORITE BREAKOUT MOVIE ACTRESS
Anna Kendrick
Emily Osment
Ginnifer Goodwin
Miley Cyrus
Zoe Saldana
FAVORITE BREAKOUT MOVIE ACTOR
Chris Pine
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sam Worthington
Taylor Lautner
Zachary Quinto
FAVORITE ON-SCREEN TEAM
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint & Emma Watson -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds -- The Proposal
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner -- The Twilight Saga
Shia LeBeouf & Megan Fox -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Hugh Jackman, Liev Shreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Will.i.am,
