babe of the year

All hail, her Royal Hotness. What can we say? We love babes with a British accent. And the fact that she admits to having a penchant for black leather doesn't hurt either. But when it came to the Babe Election finals, pitting Beckinsale opposite fellow Brit Keeley Hazell, the fans decided which UK star would come out on top. Kate scored the title of Baberaham Lincoln, which pretty much makes her Babe of the Year. Now as the President of all of Babedom, expect Kate's profile to be louder than this year's. With several projects coming up in 2009, including the big screen adaptation of the graphic novel, Whiteout, Kate is making sure that her first term as Babe Commander-in-Chief will be as hot as she is.

While Jolie was busy getting her curved bullet-time angst out of her system, and adopting whole 3rd-world populations, one actress managed to both stay in the spotlight and almost out of the angry path of a rampaging, from-the-depths…something. That is no small accomplishment, and leave it to relative newcomer and beauty Odette Yustman to pull it off. Better known as Cloverfield's beautiful damsel-in-distress, Beth, Odette came onto the scene as a girl to watch, often. As much as possible.
With the rest of her 2008 spent adding more films to her resume, kicking of with 2009's demon scare fest The Unborn, it looks like Odette is poised to join the babe ranks of Megan Fox, and this be permanently filed under "never not going places".

Summer Glau / Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Women of uncommon beauty probably have problems, not the least of which is that most people look at them and don't care about their problems because they are uncommonly beautiful. Summer Glau made things even more difficult for herself by starring in two cult science fiction TV shows: first Firefly and then The 4400. Then, she decided to portray one of the best known icons in all of geekdom: a terminator.
This might have been easy if it were just a movie. Kristanna Lokken previously portrayed a hot female terminator, but she only had to do it for two hours. How do you keep such a character interesting from week to week, episode after episode? It starts with the writing, sure, but what Glau delivers is a complex mix of a machine pretending to be human, while growing and progressing and scheming wholly without emotion. Add to this a cold and calculating sense of menace and a machine's knowledge of her own sexuality's use as a weapon - and you're starting to get the picture. Whether or not Terminator goes into a third season, the good money is on the fact that we'll be seeing a lot more of Summer Glau in the future.
Best Animated Series
The Spectacular Spider-Man
Best Science Fiction Series
Lost
Best New Series
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Network: FOX

Best Storyline The Oceanic Six / Lost
We knew the name. The Oceanic Six. To the real world, they were the sole survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, but to us…well we didn't know quite who the heck they were. Not until Lost Season 4. When Season 3 ended with a surprise flash-forward, we knew that Jack and Kate were destined to get off the Island. But who were the other four? Who else was part of The Six? And did that mean that everyone else was dead? Season 4 gave us a fantastic new equation with the introduction of the Kahana and its crew and the shock of a falsely sea-salvaged Flight 815 - a wreckage that the world was told bore no survivors. We had the beginning and we learned the end. And for the first time on Lost, we craved to discover the middle. With new episodes came the unveiling of the rest of The Six, which included Hurley, Sun, Sayid and finally…baby Aaron. At last, we the audience were given both the rescue we'd been waiting for as well as well as a frightening and compelling reason to, of all things, go back to the Island.
Best Sci-Fi Movie
Iron Man
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Best Action Movie
Drawing from the familiar sci-fi conceit of the super-genius who creates a technology that gives him great power, Iron Man stars Robert Downey, Jr. (in the greatest comeback performance since the Spice Girls at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show) as Tony Stark, a billionaire weapons developer who takes on the bad guys himself.
Stark, a free-wheeling playboy type, has his life changed forever when he's wounded and captured in Afghanistan. When his kidnappers attempt to force him to build a devastating weapon, he instead uses his intelligence and ingenuity to create a high-tech suit of armor and escape. Ultimately, Stark uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, and dons his powerful armor, vowing to protect the world as Iron Man.
The Jon Favreau-directed flick thrilled audiences and opened to a whopping $100 million weekend. A sequel is already in the works and the character is set to becoming the cornerstone of the upcoming Favreau-produced Avengers movie.
Wanted
Wanted is directed with gusto by Timur Bekmambetov, who employs many of the same visual and narrative elements seen in his Night Watch films. The film is breathlessly paced, gratuitously violent and over-the-top in almost every conceivable way. Cars crash through speeding trains, bullets curve in mid-air, a man smashes through a skyscraper window and then sails across the sky to kill his opponents.
Thankfully, a blackly comic mean streak runs throughout the film that helps acknowledge the absurdity of it all without ever diluting the fun of watching bullets, cars and people do the impossible. However, life is so cheap in Wanted that it's impossible not to be revolted by how many innocent civilians make up the film's body count (particularly during the climactic train sequence).
James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman find the humor and edge in their respective characters, while Bekmambetov's take on the material offers enough hell's bells, balls-to the-walls action to make Wanted one of this year's most subversive treats. If you want to see a fun, fast-paced movie where the action is cool and the leading lady is hot then this is for you.
Best Comic Book Adaptation
The Dark Knight
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
This was perhaps the easiest category for us to determine this year. Let's be honest - Iron Man was definitely a great comic book film, one of the best we've seen. But Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel transcends that particular category - it is absolutely one of the best films of the year (decade, even). Very, very few comic book movies have ever managed that, and we can only hope that trend continues as more and more adaptations are released. From the nuanced, layered plot to the phenomenal acting across the board, The Dark Knight is likely going to be king of this category for years to come. The bar has been raised.
Best Sports Game
NHL 09 xbox 360
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/xbox360/8.html
Best Racing/Driving Game
Burnout Paradise
Developer: Criterion Games
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Rating: E10+ for Language, Violence ps3
More than a few franchises have struggled to properly embrace the wider range of audio and graphics advancements offered with next-gen systems, but Criterion jumped into the deep end, turning a formerly track-based game into a go-anywhere driving epic. Without abandoning trademarks like insane damage and sense of speed, the metropolis and surrounding areas of Paradise City were rife with all the shortcuts and alternate routes one would expect from a Burnout game, plus the added heaps of hidden billboards, jumps and side alleys. In short, it was Burnout, but bigger and meatier than any of the previous entries.
Best Shooting Game
Space Invaders Extreme
Developer: Taito
Publisher: Taito psp
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/psp/6.html
Best Single Issue
All-Star Superman #10
Publisher: DC
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/comics/11.html
Best Publisher
Marvel Comics
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/comics/14.html
Best Ongoing Series
Thor
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/comics/17.html
Best Comic Babe of the Year
Spider-Woman
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/stars/3.html

Best Fighting Game
Soulcalibur IV
Developer: Project Soul
Publisher: Namco Bandai xbox 360
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/xbox360/2.html
Best Racing/Driving Game
Grid
Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters xbox 360
http://bestof.ign.com/2008/xbox360/5.html
fonte:www.ign.com

Kate Beckinsale foi a babe of the year
Best Action Movie
wanted
Wanted is directed with gusto by Timur Bekmambetov, who employs many of the same visual and narrative elements seen in his Night Watch films. The film is breathlessly paced, gratuitously violent and over-the-top in almost every conceivable way. Cars crash through speeding trains, bullets curve in mid-air, a man smashes through a skyscraper window and then sails across the sky to kill his opponents.
Thankfully, a blackly comic mean streak runs throughout the film that helps acknowledge the absurdity of it all without ever diluting the fun of watching bullets, cars and people do the impossible. However, life is so cheap in Wanted that it's impossible not to be revolted by how many innocent civilians make up the film's body count (particularly during the climactic train sequence).
James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman find the humor and edge in their respective characters, while Bekmambetov's take on the material offers enough hell's bells, balls-to the-walls action to make Wanted one of this year's most subversive treats. If you want to see a fun, fast-paced movie where the action is cool and the leading lady is hot then this is for you.