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Winners Announced for Inaugural “PEOPLE Magazine Awards”

NBC’s Special Two-Hour Live Telecast Aired Thursday, Dec. 18 at 9 P.M. ET/PT

Dec 19, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, December 18, 2014 – Winners have been announced for “The PEOPLE Magazine Awards,” a star-studded event special and snapshot of the year in pop culture. Nick Cannon hosted the two-hour special live from the Beverly Hilton, with performances by 5 Seconds of Summer, Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams. Presenters included Jeff Bridges, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Eric Dane, Josh Gad, Josh Groban, Diane Guerrero, Ryan Guzman, Sean Hayes, John Krasinski, Elisabeth Moss, Ryan Phillippe, Nicole Richie, Melissa Rivers and Roselyn Sanchez.

 

The first ever PEOPLE Magazine Award winners are:

 

Movie Performance of the Year – Actress

 

Jennifer Aniston

 

Breakout Star of the Year

 

Billy Eichner

 

Television Performance of the Year – Actor

 

Jon Hamm

 

Comedy Star of the Year

Kevin Hart

 

Role Model

Kate Hudson

 

On Screen TV Couple of the Year

Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina

 

Movie Performance of the Year – Actor

 

Michael Keaton

 

Model of the Year

Karlie Kloss

 

Television Performance of the Year – Actress

Lisa Kudrow

 

Triple Threat

Jennifer Lopez

 

Next Generation Star

Chloë Grace Moretz

 

Hero of the Year Award

 

Nora Sandigo

 

Style Icon recipient

Gwen Stefani

 

PEOPLE’s Sexiest Woman

Kate Upton

 

“The PEOPLE Magazine Awards” was produced by dick clark productions. Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan, Barry Adelman and Mark Shapiro from dick clark productions are Executive Producers, along with Carol Donovan and Michael Dempsey. “The PEOPLE Magazine Awards” are sponsored by L’Oréal Paris and Kohl’s.

 

For footage and press materials from the event please visit: http://www.epklink.com/PeopleMagazineAwards

 

For digital assets and gif galleries, please go to http://bit.ly/PeopleMagContent

 

 

 

CONTACTS:

 

SLATE PR

Andy Gelb, Andy Gelb, andy@slate-pr.com

Rachael Trager, Rachael@slate-pr.com

 

PEOPLE

Marnie Perez, Marnie_Perez@peoplemag.com

 

DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS

Liz Morentin, lmorentin@dickclark.com

Gina Sorial, gsorial@dickclark.com

 

NBC

Lesley Cerwin, Lesley.Cerwin@nbcuni.com

Kevin Endsley, Kevin.Endsley@nbcuni.com

 

D.BARON MEDIA RELATIONS INC.

 

Diana Baron, diana@dbaronmedia.com, 310-315-5444

Mariaines Sanchez, mariaines@dbaronmedia.com