Harry Potter casts a spell at the People’s Choice awards

Emma Stone, 23, took the trophies for both movie actress and favourite comedy actress for her roles in civil rights era film “The Help” and “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”

“I moved to LA eight years ago this week with my mom and it is so insane to be standing up here right now,” Stone told the audience.

Former Disney Channel star Demi Lovato, 19, was voted favourite pop artist following her return to showbusiness after an emotional breakdown in late 2010, beating the likes of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. Maroon 5 won best band.

Television honours included “Glee” star Lea Michele and Neil Patrick Harris for “How I Met Your Mother,” which also won favourite TV comedy show. “Two Broke Girls” was voted best new TV comedy.

Adam Sandler won best movie comedy actor and “Water for Elephants,” starring “Twilight” heart-throb Robert Pattinson, won best movie drama.

Sandler beat perennial favourites like Steve Carell and Bradley Cooper. Both Sandler’s movies this year – “Jack and Jill” and “Just Go With It” – were mauled by critics but as Sandler noted while accepting his trophy, “You the people seem to enjoy” them.

The People’s Choice hands out awards in more than 40 categories covering film, music and television. Organisers said on Wednesday that the winners were decided by more than 230 million public votes online, via text and through social media websites.

The popular “Twilight” vampire romance franchise, which has dominated People’s Choice for the past two years, was not eligible to compete this year because of the timing of the “Breaking Dawn-Part 1” release in November.

In a new category, Morgan Freeman triumphed over George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and Robert DeNiro to win favourite movie icon.

Freeman, the Oscar-winning star of “Million Dollar Baby”, said he wasn’t sure what an icon was. But he added, “I hope I represent a working actor who is so incredibly proud to be in this business … and forever grateful for this honour.”

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