Spider-Man: Brand New Day swept the film categories at the 2026 Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday, and BTS dominated the music prizes. Taylor Swift, the leading nominee with six nods, went home without a blimp. Host Alex Warren, a three-time nominee himself, ran the live show from Television City Studios in Los Angeles. Jamie Miller, JYT, Sofi Tukker and Ashe performed, and Miller took a face full of slime. Chris Pratt received the special King of Comedy honor.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day claimed favorite movie. Tom Holland won favorite movie actor, Zendaya took favorite movie actress, and Sadie Sink won favorite villain for playing Jean Grey. Sink also competed in the family TV categories for “Stranger Things,” which won favorite family TV show. Her co-star Joe Keery won favorite male TV star in that group.
Animation went two ways. Zootopia 2 won favorite animated movie, and Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman won favorite on-screen duo for voicing Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. KPop Demon Hunters collected the voice awards, with Arden Cho winning among women and Ahn Hyo-seop among men, and its song “Golden” won favorite song from a movie.
On the music side, BTS won favorite group, favorite song for “SWIM” and favorite album for “ARIRANG.” Rosé won favorite female artist and Bruno Mars won favorite male artist. KATSEYE and SOMBR took the breakout awards. Olivia Dean won favorite viral song with “Man I Need,” and Tame Impala and Jennie won favorite collaboration for “Dracula.” BINI won favorite global music star for Asia. Swift’s six nominations, which spanned artist, song, album, collaboration and global star, produced no wins. Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter, with five nominations each, also left empty-handed.
The creator and sports categories rewarded familiar names. MrBeast won favorite male creator, and Salish Matter won favorite female creator. She and Jordan Matter also won favorite creator family. Lionel Messi won favorite male sports star, Alysa Liu won among women, and Eileen Gu won clutch player of the year. Roblox took favorite video game, and “LOL Podcast” won favorite podcast.
Television honors also included “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” for kids’ TV show, “SpongeBob SquarePants” for cartoon and “America’s Got Talent” for reality competition. Jenna Ortega won favorite female family TV star for “Wednesday.” Kira Kosarin and Jack Griffo won the kids’ TV star prizes for “The Thundermans: Undercover.”
