Taylor Lautner - People's Choice Awards 2010

Taylor Lautner shows off his gray suit as he walks backstage at the 2010 People’s Choice Awards held at Nokia Theater L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (January 6).

It was just announced this afternoon that the 17-year-old actor would next star in Northern Lights, which is about a gifted, young, aerobatics pilot who faces off with his controlling, billionaire father and falls in love with a gifted, female pilot.

Taylor is nominated for Breakout Movie Actor and Fave On-Screen Team with costars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

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