People's Choice Awards

People's Choice Awards
The People's Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans. The show has been held annually since 1975, with the winners originally determined using Gallup Polls until a switch to online voting in 2005.
The awards were created by Bob Stivers, who produced the first show in 1975. The first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the year's Favorite Film Actress, and John Wayne as its Favorite Film Actor. So far, Ellen DeGeneres is the most awarded person, with a total of 20 awards.
In 1982, Stivers sold the People's Choice Awards to Procter & Gamble Productions (P&G); under P&G, the ceremony was broadcast by CBS, and Procter & Gamble's brands held exclusive national advertising time across the entire telecast.
In April 2017, the E! network announced that they had acquired the People's Choice Awards. The ceremony was shifted from its previous January scheduling to November, to reduce its proximity to the busier months of awards season. Since 2021, the ceremony has aired on E!'s sister broadcast network NBC. In March 2023, NBC announced that it would premiere a country music awards show—the People's Choice Country Awards—as a spin-off event; it will be held in September at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. In June 2023, it was announced that the People's Choice Awards will move to February, beginning with the 49th ceremony in 2024. In addition, the ceremony will stream live on Peacock in addition to the NBC and E! broadcasts.
Categories
The award categories have varied over the years. For example, the 16th People's Choice Awards had categories including Favorite All-Around Movie (Batman), and both a Favorite Movie Actor (Tom Cruise) and a World Favorite Movie Actor (Dustin Hoffman). At the 23rd People's Choice Awards, Rob Reiner was named the People's Choice Awards Honoree. The 32nd People's Choice Awards (broadcast in January 2006) included categories such as Favorite On-Screen Match-Up (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers), Favorite Leading Lady (Reese Witherspoon), Favorite Tour (U2), and an award named after a Procter & Gamble brand: Nice 'n Easy Fans Favorite Hair (Faith Hill). In 2008, the People's Choice Awards introduced a new category: Favorite Sci-Fi Show. The nominees were Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, and Doctor Who. Stargate Atlantis was the first recipient of the award.
Poll-based awards
In the 20th century, the awards were based on results from Gallup polls. Each year, Gallup took a survey of different categories for favorite actor, actress, movie, artist, television program or group. The scope was unlimited—the public could choose whomever or whatever it liked. The results of the annual survey were announced in the form of the People's Choice Awards. Since polls have margins of error, many years' awards have had ties in at least one category, when Gallup declared that the voting was so close that a single winner could not be chosen. For instance, in 2003, both Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring were recognized as Favorite Motion Picture.
Switch to online voting
The winners of the 31st People's Choice Awards (on January 9, 2005) were decided by online voting rather than Gallup polls. The nominees submitted for Internet voting were selected using an unpublished process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly, the show's production team and a panel of pop culture fans.
The nominees for the 32nd People's Choice Awards were determined by the web research company Knowledge Networks, which took a nationally representative sample of men and women ages 18 to 54, with and without Internet access, to come up with the nominees. After being presented with a list of candidates determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses and album sales, they had the option to write in their favorites. Knowledge Networks recruits its panel by using a RDD phone recruitment method and provides a web TV and Internet access to households without Internet access enabling them to infer back to the entire population.
The nominees for the 2010 People's Choice Awards were determined by the media research company Visible Measures, which specializes in measuring Internet video audience behavior. The announcement of this partnership stated, "For the first time ever, the People's Choice Awards has incorporated Internet video viewing data into the initial nominee selection process, depending on Visible Measures True Reach metrics to objectively measure online video popularity. [...] Visible Measures worked with the People's Choice Awards to determine each potential nominees' popularity on a True Reach basis, a unique measure of the total audience that has been exposed to an online video campaign – regardless of how widely the campaign spreads or where it appears. To measure True Reach, Visible Measures deploys a robust and patented set of technologies with the goal of capturing the universe of Internet video viewership data in near real-time."
Former categories
These are some of the past categories for the People's Choice Awards:
Movies
Favorite Movies
Favorite Movie Actor
Favorite Movie Actress
Favorite Action Movie
Favorite Action Actor
Favorite Action Actress
Favorite Animated Movie
Favorite Animated Movie Voice
Favorite Cast
Favorite Comedy Movie
Favorite Comedic Movie Actor
Favorite Comedic Movie Actress
Favorite Dramatic Movie
Favorite Dramatic Movie Actor
Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress
Favorite Family Movie
Favorite Horror Movie
Favorite Thriller Movie
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie
Favorite Movie Icon
Digital
Favorite Comedic Collaboration
Favorite Social Media Celebrity
Favorite Social Media Star
Favorite Mobile Game
Favorite Video Game
Favorite YouTube Star
CBS.com's Favorite Digital Obsession
Television
Favorite TV Show
Favorite Network TV Comedy
Favorite Comedy TV Actor
Favorite Comedy TV Actress
Favorite Network TV Drama
Favorite Dramatic TV Actor
Favorite Dramatic TV Actress
Favorite Cable TV Comedy
Favorite Cable TV Drama
Favorite Cable TV Actor
Favorite Cable TV Actress
Favorite Premium Cable TV Show
Favorite Premium Cable TV Actor
Favorite Premium Cable TV Actress
Favorite TV Crime Drama
Favorite Horror Show
Favorite Crime Drama TV Actor
Favorite Crime Drama TV Actress
Favorite Network Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show
Favorite Cable Sci-Fri/Fantasy Show
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actor
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Actress
Favorite Competition TV Show
Favorite Daytime TV Host
Favorite Daytime TV Hosting Team
Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host
Favorite Streaming Series
Favorite TV Bromance
Favorite Actor in a New TV Series
Favorite Actress in a New TV Series
Favorite Animated TV Show
Favorite New TV Comedy
Favorite New TV Drama
Current categories
The first ceremony in 1975 had 14 categories. In 2016, 74 categories were established.
As of 2018, these are the current categories:
Movies
Movie of the Year
Comedy Movie of the Year
Action Movie of the Year
Drama Movie of the Year
Drama Movie Star of the Year
Male Movie Star of the Year
Female Movie Star of the Year
Comedy Movie Star of the Year
Action Movie Star of the Year
Pop Culture
Social Star of the Year
Beauty Influencer of the Year
Social Celebrity of the Year
Animal Star of the Year
Comedy Act of the Year
Style Star of the Year
Game Changer of the Year
Pop Podcast of the Year
Video Game of the Year
Athlete of the Year
Television
Drama Show of the Year
Comedy Show of the Year
Revival Show of the Year
Reality Show of the Year
Competition Show of the Year
Male TV Star of the Year
Female TV Star of the Year
Drama TV Star of the Year
Comedy TV Star of the Year
Daytime Talk Show of the Year
Nighttime Talk Show of the Year
Competition Contestant of the Year
Reality TV Star of the Year
Bingeworthy Show of the Year
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show of the Year
Music
Male Artist of the Year
Female Artist of the Year
Group of the Year
Song of the Year
Album of the Year
Country Artist of the Year
Latin Artist of the Year
Music Video of the Year
Concert Tour of the Year
Special awards
People's Voice
2013: Christina Aguilera
People's Icon
2018: Melissa McCarthy
2019: Jennifer Aniston
2020: Jennifer Lopez
2021: Halle Berry
2022: Ryan Reynolds
People's Music Icon
2021: Christina Aguilera
2022: Shania Twain
Ceremonies
See also
People's Choice Awards Australia
People's Choice Awards India
People's Choice Podcast Awards
References
External links
"People's Choice Awards: You showed up? Here's a trophy!" from Entertainment Weekly
A 35th Anniversary article from The Hollywood Reporter
American annual television specials
American film awards
American music awards
American television awards
Awards established in 1975
Procter & Gamble
E!
1975 establishments in the United States