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'High School Musical 3' Named Kids' Choice

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 29, 2009

"High School Music 3: Senior Year" graduated with honors Saturday at the Kids' Choice Awards.

The Disney musical was selected as the favorite movie by audience votes at the 22nd annual slime-filled Nickelodeon spectacle held inside UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. "High School Musical" star Vanessa Hudgens was also selected as the favorite movie actress.

"Lately, a lot of people have been taking credit for bringing back the musical," Zac Efron said while accepting the movie's trophy. "The truth is we've known who's been responsible for bringing back the musical all along. It was you guys!"

The show's hijinks kicked off with host and "Race to Witch Mountain" star Dwayne Johnson zip-lining over the audience of screaming teens and tweens into a "slime temple." Johnson proceeded to spray the first row with gooey green slime.

Winners included "iCarly" for TV show, "American Idol" for reality show, Jonas Brothers for music group and "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" for animated movie. Jack Black arrived in motorcycle sidecar to pick up his award for favorite voice from an animated film for "Kung Fu Panda."

Miley Cyrus was brought to tears when she was announced as favorite female singer.

"I really thought I was gonna lose, so thank you, guys," Cyrus said.

Johnson said more than 90 million viewer votes were cast at Nick's Web site. Instead of envelopes, blimp recipients were revealed from inside spylike steel briefcases.

The green theme took on a different meaning when Cameron Diaz presented Leonardo DiCaprio with the first Big Green Help Award. The actor was selected to receive the green blimp trophy because of his contribution and promotion of environmental issues.

"Right now, our mother - our mother - all of our mothers, Mother Earth is hurting," DiCaprio said. "And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. You can help us win the battle to clean up our air, our water, our land, to protect our forests, our oceans and our wildlife."

Other winners were "Wizards of Waverly Place" star Selena Gomez for TV actress, "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" star Dylan Sprouse for TV actor, "SpongeBob SquarePants" for cartoon, Jesse McCartney for male singer, Beyonce's "Single Ladies" for song, Will Smith for movie actor, "Guitar Hero World Tour" for video game, Candace Parker for female athlete and Peyton Manning for male athlete.

Today's Birthdays

Actor Christopher Lambert is 52. Comedian-actress Amy Sedaris is 48. Model Elle Macpherson is 46. Actress Lucy Lawless is 41. Tennis player Jennifer Capriati is 33.

Source: The Associated Press

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