Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
Format	Reality, award show
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	Around 120 min. including commercials
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	March 1, 1988 – present
Chronology
Preceded by	The Big Ballot
External links
Official website

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 honors 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).

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 child standing up with his right leg crossed and holding up a long orange stick, with the word "Nickelodeon" inscribed on it. The 2009 KCA featured a new award called "The Big Green Help Award" (green version of the blimp). It goes to the celebrity who goes above and beyond to help the environment.

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 nose (2008).

Lokasi

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

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. For example, 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. The 2006 and 2008 awards were hosted by Jack Black, so far the first host after Rosie O'Donnell to host the show twice. Candace Cameron and Whitney Houston were the first hosts before O'Donnell to host twice (Cameron 1990 and 1994, Houston 1995 and 1996) 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 Johnson hosted the 2009 ceremony, presumably to promote Race to Witch Mountain.

Stars that appeared for the 2009 live telecast are John Cena, Hugh Jackman, Amy Adams, George Lopez, Keke Palmer, Robert Pattinson, Queen Latifah, Amy Poehler, Ben Stiller, Reese Witherspoon, Miranda Cosgrove, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, Owen Wilson and Nat and Alex Wolff. Also, Jonas Brothers and The Pussycat Dolls performed.

Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, Chase Crawford, America Ferrera, Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Peck, Chris Pine, Emma Roberts, Chris Rock, Marlon Wayans, and many others also participated.

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.