MANILA, Philippines - When it comes to the year’s best in entertainment, there’s no need to ask an academy; just ask the kids, and they’ll let you know.
Once again, kids made their voices heard as the nominees for the 27th Annual Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (KCA) were announced. Mark Wahlberg will host this year’s event on March 29, 8 p.m. at USC’s Galen Center. The show will premiere April 2, 4 p.m. The star-studded line-up vying for the sought-after blimp includes Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Sandra Bullock, Katy Perry, One Direction, Pharrell Williams and Ariana Grande.
The Kids’ Choice Awards is a global event with localized international categories. Fans across Asia can join in the fun and support their regional artists by voting in the Favorite Asian Act category.
Joining the list of nominees are four of Asia’s most popular music acts and first-time nominees: China’s G.E.M.; Indonesia’s Coboy Junior; Malaysia’s Lisa Surihani; and the Philippines’ Anne Curtis.
Let your voice be heard and cast in your vote for Anne. Take part in the biggest ever slime-fest and watch hilarious short form videos, take fun quizzes, browse through photo galleries, engage with weekly polls and get the latest news on this year’s show and nominees by heading to nick.com/kca14 today.
Kids can cast their votes in 23 categories, including the newly-introduced Favorite Funny Star, Favorite Animated Animal Sidekick and Most Enthusiastic Athlete across all of Nickelodeon’s digital outlets — Nick.com, all desktop and mobile devices and Nickelodeon’s Twitter page (@NickelodeonTV), where they can vote using custom KCA hashtags.
Stacking up three nominations this year, Katy Perry will take on Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift for Favorite Female Singer, while One Direction will face off against Maroon 5, One Republic and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis for Favorite Music Group. Katy and One Direction will also return as nominees in the same categories in which they took home blimps last year.
Former Kids’ Choice Awards host Justin Timberlake will battle contenders Bruno Mars, Pitbull and Pharrell Williams for Favorite Male Singer. The Nickelodeon’s 27th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards is being produced by Nickelodeon Productions in association with Bob Bain Productions. Bob Bain, Jay Schmalholz and Shelly Sumpter Gillyard are executive producers. The presenting international sponsor for the 2014 Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards is 20th Century Fox’s Rio 2.