Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Nominations: 'Wicked' Popular With 8, Marvel, 'Skeleton Crew' Get Threes
'A Minecraft Movie' receives 7 nominations, 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3' 6, Disney Channel stays strong in live action but absent in Favorite Cartoon
The 2020s have proven Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards unbound from the early spring where it had been for quite a while. On May 15, the network announced that this year’s ceremony will be held Saturday, June 21, at 8 PM (ET/PT) from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA and be hosted by Tyla, the nominee representing Africa for Favorite Global Music Star. I don’t quite know who that is. The awards will simulcast across Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons, the Nick Jr. channel, MTV2 and CMT, and also air on Nickelodeon channels around the world. This year’s show is promised to feature “star-studded collaborations, legendary skateboarding stunts, the latest in music with high-energy dancing; and Nickelodeon’s signature orange blimp trophy and epic slimings.” Wicked leads the pack with eight nominations and multiple double-nominated categories, followed by A Minecraft Movie with 7 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with 6. On the TV side it seems Bunk’d leads getting a fifth nomination over several fours and threes for its final season. Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar and Selena Gomez all lead for individual nominations with four. But most surprising of all, Favorite Cartoon lands its first anime nominee for the first time in 25 years.
Favorite Cartoon is probably the best place to start, so the inevitable losers to SpongeBob SquarePants can be dealt with right away, and it seems they’ve gone back to avoiding Disney Channel cartoons, as the nominees are staples The Simpsons, the only Animation Domination cartoon since King of the Hill season 2 to receive such nomination, this being its nineteenth nomination, Teen Titans Go!, which is set to air a KCA-targeted episode that morning, and The Loud House, while this year’s Nickelodeon wild card is Monster High, and the true wild card being Dragon Ball Daima. That’s right, an anime finally gets nominated for the first time since Pokémon at the height of Pokémania, and it’s this out of everything that’s been released in the last quarter century.
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Of course, films like Wicked getting 8 and A Minecraft Movie getting 7 nominations at an awards show with very few categories on the technical side of things means they’re all pretty major categories with major overlap. Like the big one, Favorite Movie, which sets them up against the aforementioned Sonic the Hedgehog 3, as well as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Captain America: Brave New World, Descendants: The Rise of Red, Paddington in Peru, and Thunderbolts*. Favorite Movie Actor didn’t garner anything for Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, or Jonathan Bailey, but Jack Black as Steve and Jason Momoa as Garrett Garrison for A Minecraft Movie each got a nomination against Chris Evans as Jack O’Malley and Dwayne Johnson as Callum Drift in Red One, Chris Pratt as Keats in The Electric State and Jim Carrey for either one or both Dr. Robotniks in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, while Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba go up against Emma Myers as Natalie in A Minecraft Movie, Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz and Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Millie Bobby Brown as Michelle Greene in The Electric State. Goldblum as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz does go up against Carrey for Favorite Villain, where Michelle Yeoh is also nominated for Madame Morrible, as are Frankie Grande as Frankini in Henry Danger: The Movie, Harrison Ford as President Thaddeus Ross/Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Rita Ora as Queen of Hearts in Descendants: The Rise of Red). Black and Myers are nominated separately for Favorite Butt-Kicker, with Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America, in Captain America: Brave New World, Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes in Thunderbolts*, Jace Norman as Henry Hart in Henry Danger: The Movie, and Kylie Cantrall as Princess Red in Descendants: The Rise of Red. Interestingly Favorite Song From a Movie has Black’s “I Feel Alive” over “Steve’s Lava Chicken” while revealing that the songs don’t have to be originals, as both “Popular” and “Defying Gravity”, which originate from the Wicked musical are nominated. They go up against “Can I Get A Chee Hoo?” by Dwayne Johnson for Moana 2, “Higher Love” by DESI TRILL (ft. DJ Khaled, Cardi B, Natania, and Subhi for Smurfs, which isn’t even out yet, “I Always Wanted A Brother” by Braelyn Rankins, Theo Somolu, Aaron Pierre, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. for Mufasa: The Lion King, “Kiss the Sky” by Maren Morris for The Wild Robot, and, “Run It” by Jelly Roll for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The chances of Black winning his nominations may have increased significantly as he’s set to receive the show’s second ever King of Comedy Award, following Adam Sandler’s 2023 bestowment.
Elsewhere in animation, the Favorite Animated Movie nominees are Despicable Me 4, Dog Man, Inside Out 2, Moana 2, Mufasa: The Lion King, Plankton: The Movie, The Wild Robot and Transformers One. The gendered Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie categories feature Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog and Keanu Reeves as Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Chris Hemsworth as Orion Pax/Optimus Prime in Transformers One, Dwayne Johnson as Maui in Moana 2, and Steve Carell as Gru and Will Ferrell as Maxime Le Mal in Despicable Me 4 in male, while female has Amy Poehler as Joy and Maya Hawke as Anxiety in Inside Out 2, Auli’i Cravalho as Moana in Moana 2, Kristen Wiig as Lucy in Despicable Me 4, Lupita Nyong’o as Roz in The Wild Robot, and Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1 in Transformers One.
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In television, the kids side sees all five kidcoms between Nickelodeon and Disney Channel represented, as Favorite Kids TV Show features Bunk’d, The Really Loud House, The Thundermans: Undercover, Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, and somehow, a Spanish-language Disney+ original called Ayla & The Mirrors. In the gendered Kids TV Star categories, only that and The Really Loud House aren’t represented. In Male, we have David Henrie as Justin Russo from Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, Dylan Gilmer as Young Dylan and Hero Hunter as Charlie Wilson on Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, Israel Johnson as Noah Lambert and Trevor Tordjman as Parker Preston on Bunk’d, and Jack Griffo as Max Thunderman on The Thundermans: Undercover. In Female, we have Celina Smith as Rebecca Wilson on Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan, Janice LeAnn Brown as Billie on Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, Kira Kosarin and Maya LeClark as Phoebe and Chloe Thunderman on The Thundermans: Undercover, and Mallory James Mahoney as Destiny Baker on Bunk’d.
The Family TV side is definitely going to look very different next year. While Family TV Show has Abbott Elementary again, it also has the ended Cobra Kai. There’s also Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and XO, Kitty, which have varying chances of return. But its Favorite Male Family TV Star which is definitely going to look different with nominees like Damon Wayans Jr. as Damon on the canceled freshman CBS sitcom Poppa’s House, George Lopez as George on Lopez vs Lopez, which NBC canceled after three seasons, David Schwimmer as Anthony Brewer and Sam McCarthy as Devin Brewer in Goosebumps: The Vanishing, which as an anthology season will not be a story returned to if there’s a next season, Xolo Maridueña as Miguel Diaz on the aforementioned Cobra Kai, and Jude Law as Jod Na Nawood on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which won’t be back in time for next year’s ceremony. For female, we have Anna Cathcart as Kitty on XO, Kitty, Janelle James as Ava Coleman on Abbott Elementary, Jayden Bartels as Cece Brewer in Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Peyton List as Tory Nichols on Cobra Kai, Reba McEntire as Bobbie on Happy’s Place, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Fern on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.
For the full list of music, sports, social media and more nominees, please go to the Deadline source. I put this off for too long, it would be a lot to include them and it probably wouldn’t fit in the email anymore either. However, KATSEYE will be the musical performer with “Gnarly”. Non-nominated talent in attendance will now include: Alex Warren, Benny Blanco, Ice Spice, Jacob Rodriguez, Katelyn West, Kel Mitchell, Maia Kealoha, Renee Montgomery, SeanDoesMagic, Samantha Lorraine, Tony Hawk, and Victoria Monét.
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