'Star Wars' Nominated for Six Kids Choice Awards

By: Dominic Jones

The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards are coming up in a little over a month and Star Wars has the chance to pick up some hardware.  Star Wars projects from 2016 were nominated in six categories, with the majority of the nominations going to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which was the highest grossing film domestically in 2016.  Also nominated was the video game Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  The awards ceremony will take place on March 11th and will be hosted by John Cena.  The categories Star Wars was nominated in (as well as their competition) are listed below,

Favorite Movie

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Captain America: Civil War

Ghostbusters

Pete’s Dragon

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Favorite Movie Actress

Felicity Jones (Jyn, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)
Amy Adams (Lois, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice)

Megan Fox (April, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows)

Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow, Captain America: Civil War)

Melissa McCarthy (Abby, Ghostbusters)

Kristen Wiig (Erin, Ghostbusters)

Favorite Villain
Spencer Wilding (Darth Vader, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story)

Helena Bonham Carter (The Red Queen, Alice Through the Looking Glass)

Idris Elba (Krall, Star Trek Beyond)

Will Ferrell (Mugatu, Zoolander 2)

Kevin Hart (Snowball, The Secret Life of Pets)

Charlize Theron (Ravenna, The Huntsman: Winter’s War)

Favorite Butt-Kicker

Felicity Jones (Jyn, Rouge One: A Star Wars Story)
Ben Affleck (Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice)

Henry Cavill (Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice)

Chris Evans (Captain America, Captain America: Civil War)

Chris Hemsworth (The Huntsman, The Huntsman: Winter’s War)

Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow, Captain America: Civil War)

Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique, X-Men: Apocalypse)

Zoe Saldana (Lieutenant Uhura, Star Trek Beyond)

#Squad

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Felicity Jones, Forest Whitaker, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen
Captain America: Civil War – Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman

Finding Dory – Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Kaitlin Olson, Hayden Rolence, Willem Dafoe, Ed O’Neill, Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy

Ghostbusters – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows – Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson

X-Men: Apocalypse – James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan, Ben Hardy, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Sophie Turner, Alexandra Shipp, Olivia Munn

Favorite Video Game

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Just Dance 2017

Lego Marvel’s Avengers

Minecraft: Story Mode

Paper Mario: Color Splash

Pokémon Moon

Best of luck to all the Star Wars nominees!  Last year Star Wars was nominated for five awards, and The Force Awakens won for favourite movie.

You can vote in the Kids Choice Awards Here!

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