LOS ANGELES - Twilight shone at the nominations for the People's Choice Awards on Tuesday, with its three stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner each in the running for a trophy at the event celebrating the most popular stars of film, TV and music.

The Twilight movie series, which enters its second installment on Nov 20 with the New Moon sequel, also won a nod for best franchise among its leading seven nominations.

Voted on by the public, the awards will be given out on January 6, in one of the earliest shows in Hollywood's awards season.

Pattinson, who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight series, was nominated for favourite movie actor and Stewart was nominated for favorite movie actress. Lautner, 17, was nominated for favorite breakout movie actor.

Last year, the People's Choice Awards nominees were announced 11 days before Twilight was released. The movie went on to make nearly US$384 million (S$533 million) at worldwide box offices, becoming one of 2008's biggest surprise hits.

This time, Twilight will compete for favorite movie franchise against Harry Potter, Star Trek, Transformers and X-Men. --REUTERS