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People's Choice Awards 2018: See the full list of nominees

Tired of award shows where your favorite movies or TV series fail to win? Well, Sunday's #People'sChoiceAwards may be the ceremony for you. Honoring popular film, TV, music and even podcasts, this is the award show where we, the people, determine the year's best in entertainment. After airing more than three decades on #CBS, the People's Choice Awards have a new home at the E! network. You can watch the ceremony live on E!, beginning at 9 p.m. EST Sunday, November 11. Check out the full list of nominees below. Movie of 2018 "Black Panther" "Avengers: Infinity War" "Incredibles 2" "Fifty Shades Freed" "A Quiet Place" Comedy Movie of 2018 "Love, Simon" "Blockers" "The Spy Who Dumped Me" "Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again" "Crazy Rich Asians" Action Movie of 2018 "Black Panther" "Avengers: Infinity War"

Oscars Drops 'Popular Film' Category

Don't think of it as a reversal. Think of it as the first act of a movie in which the lead — an incredibly attractive, symmetrically faced character — is up against seemingly insurmountable odds. Except in this version, that handsome-yet-relatable hero is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The challenge it faces is trying to make the sluggish annual Oscar ceremony a bit more lively. Only, it's meeting a lot of resistance. On Wednesday, the Academy announced in a statement that it is dropping the widely criticized "popular film" category it introduced less than a month ago from the 2019 awards, saying it has determined the award "merits further study." "There has been a wide range of reactions to the introduction of a new award, and we recognize the need for further discussion with our members," Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said in the statement. The new category was panned by members and the public, who complained the chang