Saturday (March 28) brought a nightful of music, slime, and screeming kids. It was the night of Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2009 which was being held at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Westwood, Calif.A press release revealed that more than 90 million votes were cast in 18 categories to determine the winners of the orange blimps (..awards!). Unlike the three-and-a-half hour of pompousity of the Academy Awards, the Kids’ Choice Awards was ninety minutes of sliming, awarding and unadulterated fun.Host Dwayne Johnson in a red mini-dress, and Will Ferrel kept the audience totally entertained. Amidst all the screams and slime were Miley Cyrus (who got the award for Favorite Female Singer) and the Jonas Brothers (named the Favorite Music Group). Cyrus said “I know this isn’t, like, the Oscars, but it’s still amazing.” The trio (Joe, Kevin and Nick Jonas) performed their hits “SOS” and “Burnin’ Up” and got honorory slime. Many others were slimed during the fest. Sandra Bullock and Hugh Jackman got the green slime all over their face as they announced the winner for the Favorite Book (the Twilight series).
The Favorite Animated Movie was “Madagascar:Escape 2 Africa“. Jack Black got the award for the Best Animated Voice for “Kung Fu Panda“. Favorite Movie award went to “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” which beat “The Dark Knight“. Will Smith and Vanessa Hudgens received the Favorite Movie Star Kids Choice Awards for male and female respectively. Other winners included “American Idol” (Favorite Reality Show), Dylan Sprouse (Favorite Television Actor for “The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody“), Selena Gomez (Favorite Television Actress for “The Wizards of Waverly Place“), and Leonardo DiCaprio (who got the inaugural Big Green Help Award for his environmental activism). “Spongebob Squarepants” was the sixth time winner for Favorite Cartoon.
Celebrities, awards, slime, and the orange carpet- Some night indeed.
A few slimy quotes of the evening:
Miley Cirus - “Oh, I would get my buddy Demi Lovato because she looks so pretty today. It’d be great to get her slimed!“
Lovato- “Oh, I would want to get slimed by Miley. I mean, she’s the teen queen. Why not? But, if I could slime anybody, I would want to slime the Jonas Brothers. They pranked me a lot on tour. So I want to get them back.“
Nick Jonas- “I want to slime him (Hugh Jackman) pretty bad. I just watched Australia, and it’s so epic. I would like to do the sliming, of course. That’d be pretty awesome. And I think he’d react very well,”