A slush and a pull and the Nick award is ours

MANILA, Philippines - Mega-stars including Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, The Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus, Jennette McCurdy, Eddie Murphy and Shaquille O’Neal reigned as this year’s favorites, winning top honors at the recent Nickelodeon’s 2011 Kids’ Choice Awards.

Hosted by actor/comedian Jack Black and broadcast from the Galen Center at USC in Los Angeles, kids’ top choices in television, movies, music and sports were revealed via slime slushie, cheerleader and a bear on a unicycle. Black proved that nothing was going to get in the way of his arriving at the venue — especially not a long limo line — by making a grand entrance in the Kids’ Choice monster truck. With the help of a dancing flash mob along the orange carpet, he kicked off the slime-fest with a rockin’ rendition of The Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling.

In a special honor, Justin Timberlake accepted Nickelodeon’s The Big Help Award for his ongoing charitable work. The award recognizes individuals who take actions to better the world and whose significant impact on their community has inspired kids to do the same.

Kids paid tribute to their favorites by casting a record-breaking 200 million votes from March 7 to April 2 in 20 categories.

Armed and dangerous: Josh Duhamel is immortalized into the Arm Fart Hall of Fame.

Orange blimps were presented to Johnny Depp for Favorite Movie Actor; Miley Cyrus for Favorite Movie Actress; The Karate Kid for Favorite Movie and Despicable Me for Favorite Animated Movie. Jackie Chan won top honors for Favorite Butt-kicker and Eddie Murphy took home the blimp for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie for his role of Donkey in Shrek Forever After. In the television categories, Favorite TV Show went to iCarly; Favorite Reality Show to American Idol; Favorite Cartoon to SpongeBob SquarePants; Favorite TV Actor to Dylan Sprouse; Favorite TV Actress to Selena Gomez and Funniest TV Sidekick to Jennette McCurdy. In music, top honors went to for Katy Perry for Favorite Female Singer; The Black Eyed Peas for Favorite Music Group and Justin Bieber for Favorite Male Singer while his track “Baby,” featuring Ludacris, won for Favorite Song. Most valuable players Shaquille O’Neal and Lindsey Vonn won for Favorite Male Athlete and Favorite Female Athlete, respectively. The Diary of Wimpy Kid series garnered Favorite Book and Just Dance 2 won Favorite Videogame. In a new special category this year, Josh Duhamel was immortalized into the Arm Fart Hall of Fame as voted by viewers during the live telecast.

The star-studded telecast featured additional celebrity participants, including: Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, Taylor Momsen, Steven Tyler, Joe Jonas, Russell Brand, Jaden Smith, Sofia Vergara, Jane Lynch, Nick Cannon, Miranda Cosgrove, Victoria Justice, Rosario Dawson, Rico Rodriguez, Cory Monteith, Keke Palmer, Shaun White, Randy Jackson and many others.