The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (or Kids' Choice Awards) is an annual awards ceremony spanning TV, film, music, and pop culture, honoring all of the fan favorites of the year based on votes by kids. The awards are generally held on a Saturday night in March-April. The winners receive a hollow orange blimp with the Nickelodeon logo on it. During the awards' show, celebrities and the audience are splashed with slime. The show is often followed up by the premiere of a new Nickelodeon original series, and/or preceded by a new episode of an already-airing Nickelodeon show.
The first annual Kids' Choice Award was broadcast in 1987, then known as "The Big Ballot". It technically was not an awards ceremony but was shown in four episodes of Rated K For Kids By Kids, a Nickelodeon show with kids reviewing movies. Kids voted for the nominees via paper mail, and the winner's trophy was a golden teleidoscope and the winners accepted their awards via a taped video. After that first year, Nickelodeon brought in producers Alan Goodman, Albie Hecht, and Fred Seibert to refresh the awards ceremony to something akin of MTV's Video Music Awards, bringing in a live audience as well as hosts and celebrity presenters. The trademark "orange blimp/kaleidoscope" shape the award would take shape as was introduced in 1990. From that point forward, the Kids' Choice Awards became one of Nickelodeon's flagship programs, airing every year (except 1993) and each year became bigger than the last, with higher-profile celebrities, musical guests, and tons and tons of slime and stunts.
In 2014, the Kids Choice Awards spun off into Kids' Choice Sports, a ceremony highlighting athletes. And yes, there's slime there as well. The Kids' Choice Sports lasted until 2019 when it was merged back into the KCA's in 2020.
Shows[]
Production | Air date | Host(s) | Location |
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2nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 18, 1988 | Tony Danza Debbie Gibson Brian Robbins Dan Schneider |
Universal Studios Hollywood |
3rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards | June 25, 1989 | Nicole Eggert Wil Wheaton | |
4th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 23, 1990 | Dave Coulier Candace Cameron David Faustino | |
5th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 22, 1991 | Corin Nemec | Pauley Pavilion |
6th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | November 14, 1992 | Holly Robinson Brian Austin Green Tori Spelling |
Universal Studios Hollywood |
7th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | May 7, 1994 | Joey Lawrence Candace Cameron Marc Weiner |
Pantages Theatre Universal Studios Florida |
8th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | May 20, 1995 | Whitney Houston | Barker Hangar |
9th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | May 11, 1996 | Whitney Houston Rosie O'Donnell |
Universal Pictures |
10th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 19, 1997 | Rosie O'Donnell | Grand Olympic Auditorium |
11th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 4, 1998 | Pauley Pavilion | |
12th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | May 1, 1999 | ||
13th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 15, 2000 | Rosie O'Donnell LL Cool J David Arquette Mandy Moore Frankie Muniz |
Hollywood Bowl |
14th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 21, 2001 | Rosie O'Donnell | Barker Hangar |
15th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 20, 2002 | ||
16th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 12, 2003 | ||
17th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 3, 2004 | Cameron Diaz Mike Myers |
Pauley Pavilion |
18th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 2, 2005 | Ben Stiller | |
19th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 1, 2006 | Jack Black | |
20th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 31, 2007 | Justin Timberlake | |
21st Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 29, 2008 | Jack Black | |
22nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 28, 2009 | Dwayne Johnson | |
23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 27, 2010 | Kevin James | |
24th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 2, 2011 | Jack Black | Galen Center |
25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 31, 2012 | Will Smith | |
26th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 23, 2013 | Josh Duhamel | |
27th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 29, 2014 | Mark Wahlberg | |
28th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 28, 2015 | Nick Jonas | The Forum |
29th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 12, 2016 | Blake Shelton | |
30th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 11, 2017 | John Cena | Galen Center |
31st Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 24, 2018 | The Forum | |
32nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 23, 2019 | DJ Khaled | Galen Center |
33rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards | May 2, 2020 | Victoria Justice | Virtual show |
34th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 13, 2021 | Kenan Thompson | Barker Hangar (virtual show) |
35th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | April 9, 2022 | Miranda Cosgrove Rob Gronkowski |
Barker Hangar |
36th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | March 4, 2023 | Nate Burleson Charli D'Amelio |
Microsoft Theater |
37th Annual Kids' Choice Awards | July 13, 2024 | TBA | Pauley Pavilion |
Pre-nominations[]
The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (or Kids' Choice Awards) is an annual awards ceremony spanning TV, film, music, and pop culture, honoring all of the fan favorites of the year based on votes by kids. The "pre-nominations" are the list of eligible nominees in each film and/or television category for the next year's ceremony, which are generally held in March-April. The winners receive a hollow orange blimp with the Nickelodeon logo on it.
Movies | Television |
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Trivia[]
- A long version of the Nickelodeon Productions "Nick Lightbulb" logo with a hand reaching up and pulling on a string, revealing the logo, is said to have aired after the first run of Kids' Choice Awards 1996. This rumor has been proven false, however.
- For unknown reasons, the KCAs once aired on YTV, owned by Corus Entertainment and not ViacomCBS. This might have been due to either YTV being a partner of Nickelodeon at the time, or Corus Entertainment actually owning Nickelodeon Canada at the time due to YTV and Corus Entertainment being Canadian.
- Most Nickelodeon networks in other countries have/had produced their own localized version of the Kids Choice Awards, such as Kids Choice Awards Mexico (Nickelodeon Latin America), Kids Choice Awards UK (Nickelodeon UK & Ireland), and Meus Premios Nick (Nickelodeon Brazil).
- Both the award ceremonies in 1989 and 1992 are the only events not to take place in March or April.
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Winners/Nominees | Winners | Pre-Nominess (Film · Television) | |
1980s | The Big Ballot | 1988 | 1989 | |
1990s | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |
2000s | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
2010s | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
2020s | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | |
2030s | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 | 2035 | 2036 | 2037 | 2038 | 2039 | |
2040s | 2040 | 2041 | 2042 | 2043 | 2044 | 2045 | 2046 | 2047 | 2048 | 2049 |