Pirates Are People's Choice

Johnny Depp and Reese Witherspoon were among the celebrities who won People's Choice Awards.

They were named favourite male and female movie star.

Matt Damon and Keira Knightley, respective stars of The Bourne Ultimatum and Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, took the honours for favourite action stars.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End was also named favourite movie and threequel, and Bourne Ultimatum favourite action movie.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix won favourite drama, Knocked Up favourite comedy, and Shrek the Third favourite family movie.

Grey's Anatomy actors Patrick Dempsey and Katherine Heigl were named favourite TV stars.

The ceremony went ahead although it was drastically altered due to the Hollywood writers strike.

Instead of receiving their statuettes to great applause during a traditional awards ceremony, the recipients taped acceptance speeches for a canned broadcast that aired on CBS.

The Writers Guild of America is refusing to allow many awards shows to hire union writers and actors are not crossing the writers' picket lines.

This one-two punch knocked out the Golden Globes – which were due to take place on Sunday.

Those awards will now be handed out at a news conference.