Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	Around 120 min. including commercials
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon
Release	March 1, 1988 – present

The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, also known as the KCAs, is an annual awards show, which airs live and is usually held in late March or early April, that honours the year's biggest television, movie, and music acts, as voted by the people who watch the Nickelodeon cable channel. The show features numerous celebrity guests and musical acts. In recent years slime stunts have come into the show. The KCAs also hosts live musical entertainment. It has also been known to overwhelmingly cover people with green liquid (slime). Britney Spears has won the most KCA awards. Rosie O'Donnell has hosted the most KCA awards.

History

Alan Goodman, Albie Hecht and Fred Seibert started the awards show as The Big Ballot in 1986, named for the ballots kids voted with. In 1988, it was renamed the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Now, it is possible to vote online at nick.com.

In 1990, the now-familiar orange blimp award was introduced. Previously, the Kids' Choice Award was a gold statue shaped to look like a beret-wearing kid standing up with his right leg crossed and holding up a long orange stick, with the word "Nickelodeon" inscribed on it.

The 2009 KCAs featured a new award called "The Big Green Help Award" (green version of the blimp) which goes to the celebrity who goes above and beyond to help the environment. The inaugural award was presented to Leonardo DiCaprio.

Unlike any other award show, the Kids' Choice Awards uses other things instead of envelopes. The show sometimes uses balloons, T-shirts, models, giant letters, and even a foot (2008).

In contrast to the trend of declining ratings for awards shows, the Kids' Choice Awards has gone from strength to strength, setting new ratings records each of the past four years (2005-2009).

Locations

Finishing up with the "Orange Carpet" for the Kids' Choice Awards out side of Pauley Pavilion, UCLA campus

The Kids' Choice Awards are typically held in Los Angeles, California. They have been held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, the Hollywood Bowl, the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, and Universal Studios in Universal City, California, but mostly at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. The 2009 show telecasted live (tape delayed for West Coast) from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on Saturday, March 28, from 8:00 PM (ET) to 9:30 PM. After that, it was followed by the debut of The Penguins of Madagascar.

Hosts

There was no host in 1986. By this time, it was The Big Ballot when there was no show in 1987.

Year	Host(s)
1988	Tony Danza Debbie Gibson Brian Robbins Dan Schneider
1989	Nicole Eggert Wil Wheaton
1990	Dave Coulier Candace Cameron David Faustino
1991	Corin Nemec
1992	Paula Abdul
1993	Brian Austin Green Holly Robinson Tori Spelling
1994	Joey Lawrence Candace Cameron Marc Weiner
1995	Whitney Houston Rick Adams
1996	Whitney Houston Rosie O' Donnell
1997	Rosie O' Donnell
1998	Rosie O' Donnell
1999	Rosie O' Donnell
2000	Rosie O' Donnell David Arquette LL Cool J Mandy Moore Frankie Muniz
2001	Rosie O' Donnell
2002	Rosie O' Donnell
2003	Rosie O' Donnell
2004	Cameron Diaz Mike Myers
2005	Ben Stiller
2006	Jack Black
2007	Justin Timberlake
2008	Jack Black
2009	Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
2010

Hosts after 2003

After Rosie O' Donnell's final show as host in 2003, Nickelodeon started picking other celebrities to host, based on their upcoming movies, in 2004. Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz hosted the KCAs in 2004, coinciding with their upcoming movie, Shrek 2. In 2005, Ben Stiller was the host to promote Madagascar. Justin Timberlake hosted in 2007 promoting Shrek the Third. In 2008, Jack Black hosted the show to tie in with Kung Fu Panda, Black hosted the first time in 2006 to promote Nacho Libre. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson hosted the 2009 ceremony, presumably to promote Race to Witch Mountain.

Prior to the live telecast, Lily Collins and Pick Boy hosted the "orange carpet", featuring celebrity interviews and a live performance by Miranda Cosgrove outside of Pauley Pavilion.

To host twice or more

Jack Black hosted in 2006 and 2008, and so far the first host after Rosie O'Donnell to host the show at least twice. Candace Cameron and Whitney Houston were the first hosts before O'Donnell to host at least twice (Cameron 1990 and 1994, Houston 1995 and 1996).

Special colored awards

These blimps are not orange like the regular blimps and the winners are chosen by the Nickelodeon staff. There is the gold Hall of Fame Award (1991-2000), the silver Wannabe Award (2001-2008) and the green Big Green Help Award (2009-present).

The Hall of Fame Award

The Hall of Fame Award (a gold version of the Blimp award) was presented to those whose accomplishments, fame and popularity set them above everyone else. Initially, the award was chosen by the kids from a slate of nominees. Actors, athletes and singers were all eligible for the award, with ballots containing nominees from multiple categories.

Hall of Fame Award winners

Year	Winner(s)
1991	Paula Abdul
1992	Michael Jordan
1993	Robin Williams
1994	Boyz II Men
1995	Whitney Houston
1996	Tim Allen
1997	Will Smith
1998	Tia & Tamera Mowry
1999	Jonathan Taylor Thomas
2000	Rosie O'Donnell

The Wannabe Award

The Wannabe Award (a silver version of the Blimp award) is presented to the best celebrity role model or inspiration (or the person whom the kids want to be like). The winner is determined prior to the awards, and is not voted upon by the kids. As of 2009, the only person to have won the Wannabe award and the Hall of Fame award is Will Smith. These awards replaced the Hall of Fame awards following the show in 2000.

Wannabe Award winners

Year	Winner
2001	Tom Cruise
2002	Janet Jackson
2003	Will Smith
2004	Adam Sandler
2005	Queen Latifah
2006	Chris Rock
2007	Ben Stiller
2008	Cameron Diaz

The Big Green Help Award

The Big Green Help Award (a green version of the Blimp award) is presented to the celebrity who goes above and beyond to help the environment. This blimp was first featured on a KCA update promo with Lily Collins announcing the new award. Originally, Cameron Diaz's award was supposed to be a Big Green Help award because she was to have received hers for helping the environment. Instead it was postponed until the following year when this award replaced it and Diaz presented the first award to Leonardo DiCaprio.

Big Green Help Award winners

Year	Winner
2009	Leonardo DiCaprio

Mystery slimed celebrities

During a Kids' Choice Awards, sometimes a celebrity might not know when they are going to be slimed onstage or offstage. Hosts have also been slimed, mostly in the finale of the show. Below is a list of all the Celebrities that have been slimed over the past years from the Kids' Choice Awards. It does not mention any celebrities in 1992 because the audience was slimed instead.

In 2006, it almost didn't happen. The idea was that whoever could guess the secret slime phrase would get slimed, and no one could guess it. Toward the end of the event, Robin Williams was able to guess the answer, allowing the sliming to proceed.

Year	Slimed Celebrity (ies)
1988	Les Lye
1989	Bill Kirchenbauer
1990	Dave Coulier Wil Wheaton
1991	Corin Nemec
1993	Jonathan Taylor Thomas Zachary Ty Bryan Taran Noah Smith
1994	James Earl Jones
1995	Mark Curry
1996	Queen Latifah
1997	Rosie O'Donnell
1998	Sean "Diddy" Combs
1999	Randy Savage Chilli
2000	Will Smith
2001	Tom Cruise *NSYNC
2002	Adam Sandler Pink
2003	Jim Carrey
2004	Mike Myers Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen
2005	Will Ferrell Johnny Depp Ben Stiller
2006	Robin Williams Jack Black
2007	Chris Tucker Jackie Chan Mandy Moore Nicole Kidman Steve Carell Tobey Maguire Vince Vaughn Justin Timberlake
2008	Orlando Bloom Brendan Fraser Harrison Ford Jack Black
2009	Jesse McCartney Hugh Jackman Sandra Bullock Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Jonas Brothers
2010

Slime stunts

Started in 2002, the show began its annual World Record Slime Stunts. Olympians, extreme sports superstars and daredevils participate in special stunts performed live on national television—often involving landing into the trademark green slime.

Year	Celebrity (ies)	Stunt Synopsis
2002	Dave Mirra	The BMX pro-biker broke his own record for a double back flip on a BMX bike and landed in a 5,000 gallon tank of green slime.
2003	Tony Hawk	The skateboarding champion skateboarded into an 11,000 gallon tank of green slime.
2004	Mat Hoffman	The BMX pro performed the "World Record Skydiving Bike Jump" landing in a lakefull of green slime.
2005	Donald Trump	The billionaire at the time enjoying a resurgence of popularity with his TV series The Apprentice "fired" a human canonball into the air, landing in a net laced with green slime.
2006	Ryan St. Onge	In a live remote from the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Utah, the U.S. Olympic Freestyle Aerial Skier skied into 10,000 gallons of green slime.
2007	Ron Jones	Bungee jumping into a pool of slime.
2008a	Jack Black Orlando Bloom	Kids Choice 2008 had many slime stunts all hosted by professional boxer Laila Ali. Depending on the outcome of the stunt, a certain amount of green slime was added to a slime vat backstage which was called throughout as the "Slime Meter". The slime was used later on at the end of the show, in supposedly the "World's Longest Celebrity Sliming," in which Orlando Bloom joined host Jack Black to be slimed for one solid minute. Host Black even remarked about how 27 tons of slime (the grand total) could fit in a vat that only held 25 tons.
2008b	Akon	In the first stunt, affectionately called the "Slime-o-Lition Derby", the pop star had 45 seconds to ride the Kids' Choice Bobble Head Kart. The choices were the shark-themed "Jaws Jalopy", a hot dog-shaped "Weiner Wagon" and the winner, the Jack Black Bobble Head Kart which was essentially a go-kart with a giant Jack Black head on the top. Akon successfully completed the course adding 10 tons of slime to the vat, "plus 5 for finishing" bringing the total to 15 tons.
2008c	Usher	The famous hip hop singer performed the second stunt manning a "slime hose," firing at a sumo wrestler and propelling the poor guy in the costume along a long platform. The amount of slime added to the vat was determined by how far the "human target" was propelled by the spray of slime. Viewers voting online picked the sumo wrestler over his competitor, the Scuba diver. The "human taget" was launched all the way to the 5-ton mark bringing the total of slime in the vat to 20 tons.
2008d	Heidi Klum	The last stunt was performed by the German supermodel or as host Black called her "Heidi the Human Dart". Klum was attached by a harness to a long cable, allowing her to swing freely in which she did. Armed with a pad of spikes, she swung between her platform and what was a trampoline-like wall covered in slime balloons. For every slime balloon Klum popped in 30 seconds, one more ton of slime was added to the vat. Kids voted online to determine exactly what type of spike pad Klum would use to pop the balloons. The choices were the hand-worn "mittens" and the winner the "butt pad" which unanimously beat out the mittens. Klum popped 7 balloons on the wall, adding 7 more tons of slime to the vat and bringing the total of slime in the vat to 27 tons.
2009	Will Ferrell	The comedian-actor slid down a slime-covered slide that was placed on top of Janss Steps on the UCLA campus, on a luge head first into a pool of slime.

See also

• Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards
• Nickelodeon Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards
• Nickelodeon Philippines Kids' Choice Awards
• Nickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Awards

External links

• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards – Official Site
• Indonesian Kids' Choice Awards – Official Site
• Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards at IMDb
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