Kids’ Choice Awards: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ Zendaya, Tom Holland, BTS Among 2026 Winners

Spider-Man leads film honors

Spider-Man: Brand New Day was named favorite movie at Saturday night’s ceremony. Zendaya won favorite movie actress, while Tom Holland took favorite movie actor. The film was one of eight nominees in its category. Other contenders included Avatar: Fire and Ash, Lilo & Stitch and Superman.

BTS claims three awards

BTS received three orange blimp statuettes: favorite music group or duo, favorite song for “Swim” and favorite album for Arirang. The awards recognized the group across three categories. Chris Pratt also received the King of Comedy Award.

A first for the broadcast

Alex Warren hosted the show, officially called CBS Presents Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. It aired live Nov. 14 from Television City in Los Angeles, running from 8 to 9:30 p.m. ET and 5 to 6:30 p.m. PT.

New categories join the ballot

Fans voted for favorites across film, television, music, gaming, sports and other fields. Producers added three categories this year: watch party: kids’ choice, favorite onscreen duo/trio and favorite clutch player of the year.

The 2026 ceremony was produced by Done + Dusted. Among the other winners listed were Zootopia 2 for favorite animated movie and Arden Cho for favorite voice from an animated movie.