# | Date | Venue | Host(s) |
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1st | March 28 – April 18, 1987 | Rated K: For Kids by Kids studio |
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2nd | April 18, 1988[1] | Universal Studios Hollywood | |
3rd | June 25, 1989[2] | ||
4th | April 23, 1990[4] | ||
5th | April 22, 1991[6] | N/A | Corin Nemec |
6th | November 14, 1992[7] | Universal Studios Hollywood | |
7th | May 7, 1994 | Pantages Theatre[9] |
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Universal Studios Florida | Marc Weiner | ||
8th | May 20, 1995 | Barker Hangar[10] | Whitney Houston |
9th | May 11, 1996 | Universal Studios Hollywood[11] | |
New York Harbor cruise | Rosie O'Donnell | ||
10th | April 19, 1997 | Grand Olympic Auditorium | |
11th | April 4, 1998 | Pauley Pavilion | |
12th | May 1, 1999 | ||
13th | April 15, 2000 | Hollywood Bowl |
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14th | April 21, 2001 | Barker Hangar | Rosie O'Donnell |
15th | April 20, 2002 | ||
16th | April 12, 2003 | ||
17th | April 3, 2004 | Pauley Pavilion | |
18th | April 2, 2005 | Ben Stiller | |
19th | April 1, 2006 | Jack Black | |
20th | March 31, 2007 | Justin Timberlake | |
21st | March 29, 2008 | Jack Black | |
22nd | March 28, 2009 | Dwayne Johnson | |
23rd | March 27, 2010 | Kevin James | |
24th | April 2, 2011 | Galen Center | Jack Black |
25th | March 31, 2012 | Will Smith | |
26th | March 23, 2013 | Josh Duhamel | |
27th | March 29, 2014 | Mark Wahlberg | |
28th | March 28, 2015 | The Forum | Nick Jonas |
29th | March 12, 2016 | Blake Shelton | |
30th | March 11, 2017 | Galen Center | John Cena |
31st | March 24, 2018 | The Forum | |
32nd | March 23, 2019 | Galen Center | DJ Khaled |
33rd | May 2, 2020 | Virtual show[a] | Victoria Justice[b] |
34th | March 13, 2021 | Barker Hangar[c] | Kenan Thompson |
35th | April 9, 2022 |
Notes
The Kids' Choice Awards are typically held in and around Southern California. Past ceremonies have been held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, the Hollywood Bowl, the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, and Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, but mostly at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. After renovations to Pauley beginning in 2011, the show was moved to the Galen Center at USC;[13] it was expected to be a temporary home, but the network retained Galen for the 2012–14 ceremonies due to the construction of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference and Guest Center, making it difficult to have the "Orange Carpet"; the smaller Kids' Choice Sports had its first ceremony in 2014 at Pauley. For the 2015 and 2016 shows, the ceremony occurred at the remodeled Forum in Inglewood, California. Between the 2017 and 2019 shows, the venue alternated between the Galen Center and The Forum.[14]
The 2020 awards, previously scheduled for March 22, were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; a spokesperson said that Nickelodeon "will have further information about a new date in the future."[15] The ceremony was later moved to May 2 to be held virtually.[16][17] The 2020 show was originally planned to serve as a tie-in with Nickelodeon's Slimefest event.[18]
The ceremony has been hosted multiple times by four individuals, with Candace Cameron hosting in 1990 and 1994, Whitney Houston consecutively in 1995 and 1996, then Rosie O'Donnell (who co-hosted with Houston in 1996) alone from 1997 until 2003 (with four other hosts in 2000). This was followed by Jack Black in 2006, 2008 and 2011, and then John Cena, who hosted consecutively for 2017 and 2018.