The 2026 Kids’ Choice Awards winners have been revealed following a slime-filled ceremony at Television City Studios in Los Angeles, hosted by Alex Warren.
The event, held on Saturday evening, celebrated favourites from film, television, music, gaming, sport and online entertainment. Performances came from Jamie Miller, JYT, Sofi Tukker and Ashe.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day won favourite movie, while Zendaya and Tom Holland took the prizes for favourite movie actress and favourite movie actor respectively.
Among the film awards, Zootopia 2 was named favourite animated movie. Arden Cho won favourite female animated voice from a movie for KPop Demon Hunters, while Ahn Hyo-seop took the male equivalent for the same film.
Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires won the new Watch Party: Kids’ Choice category, while Sadie Sink was named favourite villain for her role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
2026 Kids’ Choice Awards winners
Percy Jackson and the Olympians won favourite kids TV show, with Stranger Things taking favourite family TV show. America’s Got Talent was named favourite TV show reality competition.
SpongeBob SquarePants won favourite cartoon, while Kira Kosarin and Jack Griffo were named favourite female and male TV stars in the kids category.
Jenna Ortega won favourite female TV star in the family category for Wednesday, and Joe Keery took the male award for Stranger Things.
The prize for favourite on-screen duo or trio went to Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman for their roles in Zootopia 2.
In the music categories, ROSÉ was named favourite female artist and Bruno Mars won favourite male artist. BTS took favourite music group or duo, while KATSEYE and SOMBR won the female and male breakout artist or group awards.
BTS also won favourite song for “SWIM” and favourite album for ARIRANG. “Golden”, performed by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami for KPop Demon Hunters, was named favourite song from a movie.
Olivia Dean won favourite viral song for “Man I Need”, while Tame Impala and JENNIE took favourite music collaboration for “Dracula”.
The global music star honours went to BINI for Asia. Tyla won for Africa, Tame Impala for Australia, Zara Larsson for Europe, Karol G for Latin America, Taylor Swift for North America and Olivia Dean for the UK.
Salish Matter was named favourite female creator and MrBeast won favourite male creator. Jordan and Salish Matter took favourite creator family.
In sport, Alysa Liu won favourite female sports star and Lionel Messi was named favourite male sports star. Eileen Gu took the new favourite clutch player of the year award.
Roblox won favourite video game, while LOL Podcast was named favourite podcast.
Chris Pratt was also set to receive the special King of Comedy honour during the ceremony.
Taylor Swift led this year’s nominations with six, followed by Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter with five each.
