Nickelodeon's 25th Annual | |
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Date | March 31, 2012 |
Hosted by | Will Smith Tom Kenny (announcer) |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | Nickelodeon |
Runtime | 90 minutes (8-9:30 p.m. ET/PT) |
Viewership | 6.2 million[1] |
Produced by |
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Directed by | Beth McCarthy-Miller |
Nickelodeon's 25th Annual Kids' Choice Awards were held on March 31, 2012 at 8 p.m. ET in Los Angeles, California in the United States, where the winners received an orange-colored blimp trophy. Big Help Award winner Ed received a special silver-colored NES from Shigeru Miyamoto. The complete list of nominees for the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards was released on January 11, 2012, leading up to the release of Men in Black 3 on May 25, 2012.[2] The event was hosted by MIB 3 star Will Smith, who with ten KCA blimps has won the most awards in previous telecasts. A record-breaking 223 million votes for favorites in 20 categories were cast during this year's voting period, up 11% over last year's votes.
The rating was 6.162 million viewers, leading all cable programs for the week ending April 1, 2012.[1]
Pre-show edit
- Before the ceremonies and on the "Orange Carpet", Pipi Drinker and Max Schneider performed "Me and You Against the World" from their upcoming movie Rags.[3]
Categories edit
All of the nominations were released on February 16, 2012. Winners are highlighted in Bold text.
Television edit
Favorite TV Show edit
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Favorite Cartoon edit
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Film edit
Favorite Movie edit
Favorite YTP edit
Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie edit
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Music edit
Favorite Male Singer edit
Favorite Female Singer edit
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Favorite Music Group editFavorite Song edit
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Sports edit
Favorite Male Athlete edit
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Favorite Female Athlete edit
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Other categories edit
Big Help Award editFavorite Book Series editFavorite Video Game edit |
Favorite Buttkicker edit
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Events within the show edit
Slime stunts edit
- Slime Wrestling Championship – The Big Show defeated The Miz[4]
Slimed celebrities edit
In a pre-show promo, Smith slimed Victoria Justice, Daniel Radcliffe, and Shaun White; Will Smith engaged in a slime fight with Cameron Diaz. In a special during the show music video, Big Time Rush was slimed during the video in the audience.[5]
During the show:
- Halle Berry – After being accused of being the "Creepy Voice", she sat down in what Will Smith called the "best seat in the house ... perfect seat". Afterwards she was slimed when a person behind her dumped a bucket of it on her.
- Chris Colfer – During the presentation of favorite TV actress, the special "Exploding Blimp" was placed in front of Chris Colfer and Heidi Klum; then the blimp went off covering the Glee star in slime; Heidi was lightly slimed.
- Heidi Klum – During the unveiling of favorite TV actress, Heidi was lightly slimed when Chris Colfer was drenched in a torrent of slime.
- Taylor Lautner – After winning a push-up contest against Will Smith, his special reward was a hose-down of green slime.
- Justin Bieber – At center stage, Will Smith asked him who "the secret celebrity who wants to be slimed," and told him "It's you!"; afterwards big jets of slime shot at the two celebrities and covered them in green goo.
- Will Smith – Even though he was slimed during a promo of the 2012 KCAs; at the end of the show, Will too was slimed while trying to hide behind Bieber.
- The Miz – At the end of the special slime championship, The Miz lost to The Big Show and was thrown over the edge of the ring and into a pool of slime.
- The Big Show – After beating The Miz, The Big Show and Jeff Sutphen had a hose-down of green slime; afterwards he slipped on the slime and fell down.
- Jeff Sutphen – After presenting The Big Show with his special KCA belt, he and The Big Show were hosed down in a torrent of green slime.
- Santino Marella - Santino was the referee and announcer for the slime championship. After The Big Show had won against The Miz, he jumped into the pool of slime that The Miz had been thrown in.
International distribution edit
Regional Awards edit
Favourite Asian Act edit
- Agnes Monica (Indonesia)
- Charice (The Philippines) (Winner)[6]
- Wonder Girls (South Korea)
- Yuna (Malaysia)
Favorite Brazilian Artist edit
Favorite Latin Artist edit
UK Catergores edit
The UK had seven unique categories this year including Favorite UK Band, Favorite UK TV Show and more.
International airings edit
As the United Kingdom and Ireland are in the timezone GMT +0, and Germany is in the timezone GTM +1, the Kids' Choice Awards were shown at the same time in both countries, as it was shown at 5:30pm on Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland) and 6:30pm on Nickelodeon (Germany).
References edit
- ^ a b Bibel, Sara (April 3, 2012). "Cable Top 25: 'Kids Choice, 'WWE RAW,' 'How To Rock' Top Cable Viewership For Week Ending April 1, 2012". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
- ^ Boedeker, Hal (11 January 2012). "Will Smith honored to host 'slimiest' Kids' Choice Awards". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ H., Brittany (March 28, 2012). "Max Schneider and Keke Palmer Performing on the Orange Carpet!". nick.com. Nickelodeon. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
- ^ Kids' Choice Awards 2012: Slime Wrestling Championship, Nick.com, March 2012
- ^ KCA 2012: Celebrity Slime Targets, March 2012
- ^ Winners, Nick-Asia.com, April 1, 2012
External links edit
Kids' Choice Awards Category:Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards