MUMBAI: iCarly won the award for favourite kids show at the Nickelodeon’s Kids choice Awards in the US.
Kids paid tribute to their favourites by casting a record-breaking 200 million votes from 7 March -2 April 2011 in 20 categories.
In other television categories Favourite Reality Show went to American Idol; Favourite Cartoon to SpongeBob SquarePants; Favourite TV Actor to Dylan Sprouse; Favourite TV Actress to Selena Gomez and Funniest TV Sidekick to Jennette McCurdy.
In film Orange, blimps were presented to Johnny Depp; Miley Cyrus; The Karate Kid for Favourite Movie and Despicable Me for Favourite Animated Movie. Jackie Chan won top honours for Favourite Buttkicker and Eddie Murphy took home the blimp for Favourite Voice from an Animated Movie for his role of Donkey in Shrek Forever After.
In music, top honours went to for Katy Perry for Favourite Female Singer; The Black Eyed Peas for Favourite Music Group and Justin Bieber for Favourite Male Singer while his track "Baby," featuring Ludacris, won for Favourite Song. Most valuable players Shaquille O‘Neal and Lindsey Vonn won for Favourite Male Athlete and Favourite Female Athlete, respectively.
The Diary of Wimpy Kid series garnered Favourite Book and Just Dance 2 won Favourite Videogame. In a new special category this year, Josh Duhamel was immortalized into the Arm Fart Hall of Fame as voted by viewers during the live telecast.
Rosario Dawson presented former Kids‘ Choice Awards host and winner Justin Timberlake with Nickelodeon‘s The Big Help Award in recognition of his ongoing charitable work as a philanthropist with Shriners Hospitals for Children. The Big Help Award recognises individuals who take actions to better the world and whose significant impact on their community has inspired kids to do the same.
The show as hosted by actor/comedian Jack Black and broadcast from the Galen Center at USC in Los Angeles; the kids‘ top choices in television, movies, music and sports were revealed via slime slushie, cheerleader and a bear on a unicycle.
The telecast featured additional celebrity participants, including: Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, Taylor Momsen, Steven Tyler, Joe Jonas, Russell Brand, Jaden Smith, Sofia Vergara, Jane Lynch, Nick Cannon, Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice, Rosario Dawson, Rico Rodriguez, Cory Monteith, Keke Palmer, Shaun White, Randy Jackson and many others.
