Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2024 Nominations Boast Surprising 'Power Rangers Cosmic Fury' Presence
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2024 Nominations Boast Surprising 'Power Rangers Cosmic Fury' Presence
'iCarly' receives 4 nominations despite cancellation, and live action 'Avatar' returns the franchise in play for the first time since 2008. Taylor Swift and 'Barbie' boast the most nominations
June has come, which means the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2024 would need to announce its nominations rather soon in order to have a substantial voting window before the July 13 show hosted by SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star. Musical performances will still be announced before then but not today. And as is typical of Kids Choice Awards nominees, some of the decisions for nominations can get pretty wild. The iCarly revival received four nominations, The Muppets Mayhem two despite cancellations, and Power Rangers Cosmic Fury getting four nominations despite the cast and show being shut out in both of its Dino Fury years, including those spent on Nickelodeon.
Cosmic Fury has been nominated for Favorite Kids TV Show alongside The Muppets Mayhem, who won the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's or Family Viewing Series in December. They will be facing off against Danger Force, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Raven's Home, The Really Loud House, and Tyler Perry's Young Dylan. They also both have nominations for Favorite Female Kids TV star. In fact, Cosmic Fury is double nominated, for Hunter Deno as Red Ranger Amelia Jones and Tessa Rao as Green Ranger Izzy Garcia. Lily Singh was nominated for playing The Muppets Mayhem’s Nora Singh, and they all go up against Olivia Rodrigo as Nini and Sofia Wylie as Gina from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and Raven-Symoné as Raven Baxter from Raven's Home. Chance Perez rounds out Cosmic Fury’s nominations, as Izzy’s brother Black Ranger Javi Garcia for Favorite Male Kids TV Star nominated against Dylan Gilmer as Young Dylan in Tyler Perry's Young Dylan, Jahzir Bruno as Clyde McBride and Wolfgang Schaeffer as Lincoln Loud in The Really Loud House, Joshua Bassett as Ricky in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It was Beast Morphers in 2020 that was the last Power Rangers season to be nominated before this, both for Favorite Kids TV Show and Abraham Rodriguez as Gold Ranger Nate Silva for Favorite Male TV Star.
With SpongeBob and Patrick hosting the event, a 16th consecutive Favorite Cartoon win is inevitable for SpongeBob SquarePants, but it’s always worth checking out what’s been nominated with it. Loser mainstays Teen Titans Go! and The Loud House are nominated for the tenth and eighth times respectively. The Simpsons is back for its 18th nomination, the first since 2020, meaning it’s been nominated half of its life without any of its ilk breaking through. This year’s supplementary Nickelodeon nominee is Monster High, after The Smurfs the past two years and the Rugrats reboot alongside it last year. The final nominee breaks a drought going back 8 years to 2016. Big City Greens is the first Disney umbrella animated series since Gravity Falls to receive a Favorite Cartoon nomination, a streak that left beloved series like Star vs. The Forces of Evil, DuckTales, The Owl House and Amphibia without the honor of losing.
In the face of its controversial cancellation, the iCarly revival clinches a Favorite Family TV Show nomination, achieving the feat for all three seasons with stars Miranda Cosgrove and Jerry Trainor doing so for their respective gendered Favorite Family TV Star categories. Even Laci Mosley, who played Carly’s best friend Harper, got in on the fun this year with a nomination. iCarly goes up against Abbott Elementary, the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender, Goosebumps, Loki, and Young Sheldon. Each show at least has one representative in the acting categories. Cosgrove and Mosley go up against Janelle James and Quinta Brunson as Ava Coleman and Janine Teagues from Abbott Elementary, as well as Peyton List as Maddie Nears from School Spirits and Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano on Ahsoka, evidently the only Star Wars-related nominee this year. Trainor goes up against two Goosebumps actors, Justin Long as Nathan Bratt and Zack Morris as Isaiah Howard. The other nominees are Tom Hiddleston as Loki for Loki, Gordon Cormier as Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Iain Armitage as Sheldon Cooper on Young Sheldon. This brings the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise back to KCA contention for the first time since its 2008 Favorite Cartoon win for the original animated series, the only loss SpongeBob has ever had.
The most-nominated entity is claimed to be Taylor Swift, with six nods. For Favorite Female Artist she’s up against Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Cardi B, Miley Cyrus, Olivia Rodrigo, and Selena Gomez. "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone
and "Karma (Remix)" with Ice Spice are nominated for Favorite Music Collaboration against “All My Life" by Lil Durk and J. Cole "Baby Don't Hurt Me" by David Guetta, Anne Marie and Coi Leray, "Barbie World" by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice with Aqua, "Doctor (Work it Out)" by Pharrell Williams featuring Miley Cyrus, "SUPPOSED TO BE LOVED" by DJ Khaled featuring Lil Baby, Future and Lil Uzi Vert, and "Wild Ones" by Jessie Murph and Jelly Roll. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY is up for Favorite Album against Barbie: The Album, Cowboy Carter by Beyoncé, Endless Summer Vacation by Miley Cyrus, GUTS by Olivia Rodrigo, and Whitsitt Chapel by Jelly Roll. Swift is North America’s representative for Favorite Global Music Star against Africa’s Tyla, BLACKPINK from Asia, Troye Sivan for Australia and New Zealand, “Europe”’s Zara Larsson, Latin America’s Karol G, and the United Kingdom’s Dua Lipa. The Eras Tour is nominated for Favorite Ticket of the Year, alongside Bad Bunny’s Most Wanted, Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour, BlackPink’s BornPink Tour, Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour, Sabrina Carpenter’s Emails That I Can't Send Tour.
However, the Eras Tour concert film was not able to shake up the Favorite Movie category the same way that Barbie was able to break into the music categories. In addition to the Favorite Music Collaboration and Favorite Album nominations for its soundtrack (a song made for and featured on it for the former), two others, "Dance the Night" by Dua Lipa and "What Was I Made For?" by Billie Eilish were nominated for Favorite Song against "Fast Car" by Luke Combs, "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus, "Paint The Town Red" by Doja Cat, "Selfish" by Justin Timberlake, "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" by Beyoncé, and "yes, and?" by Ariana Grande. On the movie side, its Favorite Movie competitors are Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, The Little Mermaid, The Marvels, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and Wonka. For Favorite Movie Actor, Ryan Gosling is nominated as Ken against Adam Sandler as Danny Friedman in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Chris Pratt as Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3, Jason Momoa as Aquaman in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, John Cena as Jakob Toretto in Fast X, Paul Rudd as Gary Grooberson in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Ryan Reynolds as Cal in IF, and Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka in Wonka. Both America Ferrera as Gloria and Margot Robbie as Barbie are nominated for Favorite Movie Actress against Brie Larson as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel in The Marvels, Halle Bailey as Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula in The Little Mermaid, Jennifer Garner as Jess in The Family Switch,
Zendaya as Chani in Dune: Part Two and Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3. McCarthy is also nominated for Favorite Villain.
As far as animated movies, The Super Mario Bros. Movie got the most nominations of its kind with five, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem received four. For Favorite Animated Movie, they compete against Elemental, Kung Fu Panda 4, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Garfield Movie, and Trolls Band Together. Surprisingly, Chris Pratt is not the double nominee in the Favorite Male Voice in an Animated Movie category. He is nominated as Mario, but it’s Jack Black who is the double nominee, for Bowser and Po. The other nominees are Adam Sandler as Leo in Leo, Brady Noon as Raphael, Jackie Chan as Splinter, Justin Timberlake as Branch in Trolls Band Together, and Shameik Moore as Miles Morales. The Favorite Female Voice in an Animated Movie nominees are Anna Kendrick as Poppy in Trolls Band Together, Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Ariana DeBose as Asha in Wish, Awkwafina as Zhen in Kung Fu Panda 4, Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy, and Kristen Bell as Janet and McKenna Grace as Skye in PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie. To round out the movie categories, Black and McCarthy’s competitors in Favorite Villain are all from the movies: Amy Schumer as Velvet from Trolls Band Together, Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Dune: Part Two, Keegan-Michael Key as Chief of Police, in Wonka and Favorite Breakout Artist nominee Reneé Rapp as Regina George in Mean Girls.
All these nominees and more (from sports, social media, and video games) were announced on CBS Mornings for the older crowd, and across (active) Nickelodeon social media by gaming YouTuber Preston. They’re also available in the press release.
Source: PR Newswire