# 2008 Kids' Choice Awards

The 21st Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards was held on March 29, 2008, at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, and was the first live-action/animated ceremony. The event was hosted by Jack Black. Voting began March 3 on Nick.com and Nicktropolis. A "Bring on the Nominees" special hosted by Lil' JJ also aired. The Naked Brothers Band and Miley Cyrus were the musical performers. A sweepstakes was announced to promote the show. The number of votes cast broke the record previously set in 2007. 86,708,020 kids cast 88,254,272 votes (since kids were allowed to vote multiple times) between March 3–29 in 18 categories, to honor and vote for their favorites. Votes were cast via Nick.com, Nicktropolis, TurboNick, and for the first time via Nick's new mobile website (wap.nick.com). The award show attracted 7.7 million viewers.
The 2008 Kids' Choice Awards is notable for being the only time that SpongeBob SquarePants did not win the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Cartoon since the show was first nominated in 2003, with Avatar: The Last Airbender winning instead.

## Presenters and Performers, and Stunts for KCA 2008
### Presenters (in order of appearance)

| Celebrity (ies) | Presenting |
| Jack Black | Hosted the Awards |
| Miranda Cosgrove | Cameo appearances throughout the show |
| Tom Kenny | Newly titled himself, "The Voice in a Box" (announcer), SpongeBob |
| Josh Peck Janet Jackson | Favorite Movie Actress |
| Emile Hirsch America Ferrera | Favorite Music Group |
| Laila Ali | Introduced Akon, Usher and Heidi Klum for the slime stunts |
| James Marsden Hayden Panettiere | Favorite Female Singer |
| Shia LaBeouf Harrison Ford | Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie |
| Ryan Sheckler Abigail Breslin | Introduced The Naked Brothers Band |
| Pete Wentz Ashlee Simpson-Wentz | Favorite Reality Show |
| Jennifer Love Hewitt Devon Werkheiser | Favorite Male Singer |
| Ashton Kutcher | Wannabe Award |
| Howie Mandel | Introduced the YMCA burping contest |
| Jaden, Willow & Will Smith | Introduced Miley Cyrus |
| Rihanna Brendan Fraser | Favorite TV Show |
| Steve Carell Amy Poehler | Favorite Movie |

### Performers (in order of appearance)

* The Naked Brothers Band performed "I Don't Want to Go to School"
* Miley Cyrus performed "G.N.O (Girl's Night Out)"

### Slimed Celebrities

* Harrison Ford – While presenting Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie with Shia LaBeouf, Ford replaced an orb containing the winner with a blimp, similar to the classic scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Also like that scene, a "booby-trap" bucket of slime was dumped onto his head. Ford joked about it and LaBeouf gave him his trademark fedora.
* Brendan Fraser – While presenting Favorite TV Show with Rihanna, who was carrying an umbrella, Fraser asked why she had one. The singer slyly replied that "this is for you", and a stream of slime rose from the podium and hit Fraser's forehead.
* Orlando Bloom – Bloom was the mystery celebrity at the end of the show who got slimed with 27 gallons of the green goo alongside Jack Black.
* Jack Black – The host was slimed at the end of the show with the 27 gallons of slime collected from the slime stunts with Orlando Bloom.

### Slime Stunts (in order of appearance)

* 1/3 – Akon performed the Slime-o-Lition Derby driving the Jack Black Bobblehead.
* 2/3 – Usher performed using a high pressure slime cannon shooter blasting the costume sumo wrestler five feet. (Note: The level was tilted so the sumo wrestler can go to 5 ft.)
* 3/3 – Heidi Klum performed the human dartboard using a butt spike belt.

### Nicktoon appearance

* Otis and Pip form Back at the Barnyard.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, in bold. Other nominees are in alphabetical order.

### Movies

| Favorite Movie | Favorite Movie Actor |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks Are We Done Yet? Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Transformers | Johnny Depp – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Captain Jack Sparrow Ice Cube – Are We Done Yet? as Nicholas "Nick" Persons Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson – The Game Plan as Joseph "Joe" Kingman Eddie Murphy – Norbit as Norbit Albert Rice, Rasputia Latimore and Mr. Hangten Wong |
| Favorite Movie Actress | Favorite Animated Movie |
| Jessica Alba – Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman Drew Barrymore – Music and Lyrics as Sophie Fisher Kirsten Dunst – Spider-Man 3 as Mary Jane "M.J." Watson Keira Knightley – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Elizabeth Swann | Ratatouille Bee Movie Shrek the Third The Simpsons Movie |
| Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie ||
| Eddie Murphy – Shrek the Third as Donkey Cameron Diaz – Shrek the Third as Princess Fiona Mike Myers – Shrek the Third as Shrek Jerry Seinfeld – Bee Movie as Barry B. Benson ||

### Television

| Favorite TV Show | Favorite TV Actor |
| Drake & Josh Hannah Montana iCarly The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | Drake Bell – Drake & Josh as Drake Parker Josh Peck – Drake & Josh as Josh Nichols Cole Sprouse – The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Cody Martin Dylan Sprouse – The Suite Life of Zack & Cody as Zack Martin |
| Favorite TV Actress | Favorite Reality Show |
| Miley Cyrus – Hannah Montana as Miley Stewart Raven-Symoné – That's So Raven as Raven Baxter Emma Roberts – Unfabulous as Addie Singer Jamie Lynn Spears – Zoey 101 as Zoey Brooks | American Idol America's Next Top Model Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Deal or No Deal |
| Favorite Cartoon ||
| Avatar: The Last Airbender Ed, Edd n Eddy The Simpsons SpongeBob SquarePants ||

### Music

| Favorite Music Group | Favorite Male Singer |
| Jonas Brothers Boys Like Girls Fall Out Boy Linkin Park | Chris Brown Bow Wow Soulja Boy Justin Timberlake |
| Favorite Female Singer | Favorite Song |
| Miley Cyrus Beyoncé Fergie Alicia Keys | "Girlfriend" – Avril Lavigne "Beautiful Girls" – Sean Kingston "Big Girls Don't Cry" – Fergie "Don't Matter" – Akon |

### Sports

| Favorite Male Athlete | Favorite Female Athlete |
| Tony Hawk Shaquille O'Neal Alex Rodriguez Tiger Woods | Danica Patrick Cheryl Ford Serena Williams Venus Williams |

### Miscellaneous

| Favorite Video Game | Favorite Book |
| Madden NFL '08 Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party Guitar Hero III High School Musical: Sing It! | Harry Potter series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Diary of a Wimpy Kid How to Eat Fried Worms |

#### Wannabe Award

* Cameron Diaz

## The Rocktopus

The Rocktopus is an eight legged octopus of rock n' roll who haunts Jack Black in his dreams. Later during the awards show, they settle their differences in time for the Rocktopus to activate the slimer machine.

## iCarly: Live From Hollywood

The iCarly cast was live outside the Pauley Pavilion in Hollywood, where the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards were held. The cast aired from 9/8c - 11/10c. Carly, Sam, Freddie, and Spencer were at the Kids' Choice Awards because Spencer was hired to make a Kids' Choice Awards Blimp out of Wieners. Although Spencer was working on his sculpture, he happened to peek around the show, like the Gift bags for the Celebrities, going into Jack Black's Dressing Room, and stealing some mini wienies from the Snack table. In the end, his sculpture was destroyed when the Snack lady attacked him. People actually believed that it was a fan who destroyed the sculpture as security tackled the Snack Lady.

## Musical Guests

Countdown to Kids' Choice:
* Lil' Mama - Shawty Get Loose
The Show:
* The Naked Brothers Band, "I Don't Want To Go to School"
* Miley Cyrus, "G.N.O. (Girl's Night Out)"