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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.
[edit] HistoryAlan 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). [edit] Locations 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. [edit] HostsThere was no host in 1986. By this time, it was The Big Ballot when there was no show in 1987.
[edit] Hosts after 2003After 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. [edit] To host twice or moreJack 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). [edit] Special colored awardsThese 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). [edit] The Hall of Fame AwardThe 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. [edit] Hall of Fame Award winners
[edit] The Wannabe AwardThe 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. [edit] Wannabe Award winners
[edit] The Big Green Help AwardThe 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.[11] 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. [edit] Big Green Help Award winners
[edit] Mystery slimed celebritiesDuring 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.
[edit] Slime stuntsStarted 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.
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