Matt Smith wins the Spike Scream Award

[23skidoo]

It's not quite an Emmy, but we'll take it!

The US cable network Spike TV has an annual star-studded awards show called the Scream Awards and this year Matt Smith won the Best Sci-Fi Actor category, beating out Chris Evans for Captain America, and both Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford for Cowboys & Aliens.

Doctor Who itself lost the TV series category to Game of Thrones, while Karen Gillan was defeated by Milla Jovovich in the last Resident Evil movie.

As I say, it's not quite the Emmys, but the Screams are fast becoming on par with MTV's Movie Awards, so it's still a pretty big deal to have Doctor Who nominated in 3 categories and win one in a US awards show. In fact if you ignore the "niche" awards like the Hugos and the Saturns, which are aimed at a specific audience and are considered more "serious" awards, I think this is actually the first time Doctor Who has been honored in what I might call a "mainstream US" awards show. The closest it's come to something like this was when it was nominated for a People's Choice Award a few years ago.

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/10/dwn151011163916-matt-smith-wins-best.html

Sad part is I'm going to have to actually watch Spike TV on the 18th to see the award show...

Alex

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Awesome!

 

[Timofnine]

Great news :O)

 

[captcalhoun]

KG is SO much hotter than Milla.

 

[Saga]

KG is SO much hotter than Milla.

i like Milla...but yeah, i think Karen should have won.

 

[23skidoo]

i like Milla...but yeah, i think Karen should have won.

Yeah, Afterlife is actually my favorite of the Resident Evil films and Milla does do her best work so far in it (as Alice, anyway), but Karen was a lot better. It's rather unfair to put TV up against movies.

Incidentally, these awards are Internet vote-based so maybe Milla had a bigger fanbase (ditto Game of Thrones). But it still means there's a lot of folks pulling for Matt Smith. I just noticed the photo they use at the News Page for this shows Matt at the awards, so it'll be worth tuning in to hear what he has to say and what clips they show.

Alex

 

[Trubinator]

Karen Gillan lost to the Resident Evil chick? WHAAAAAAT?!?!?! WTF ...

 

[Deckerd]

I don't think there's much to choose between them, if you're going by looks, which is entirely possible with an internet vote.

 

[Starkers]

Karen looks far less like a boy than Mila! (who is v pretty but Karen is nicer imo)

 

[23skidoo]

Karen looks far less like a boy than Mila! (who is v pretty but Karen is nicer imo)

Yeah but remember this is a primarily American vote. So Milla has the additional cachet of 3 other RE movies, some current press for being in the upcoming Three Musketeers, and there's still residual interest in Fifth Element.

Granted, Matt Smith beat James Bond AND Han Solo...

Alex

 

[Starkers]

not to mention Indianna Jones

Good point re Mila!

 

[Davros]

Karen looks far less like a boy than Mila! (who is v pretty but Karen is nicer imo)

Neither of them look like boys to me.

 

[Garak]

That's a pretty big deal.

 

[Samurai8472]

Clip

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3MHQniNVnE[/YT]

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Wow, he flew all the way from the UK for that? Well, a free trip's a free trip.

Mark

 

[Samurai8472]

006, Sarah Connor and The Doctor