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The 2011 Teen Choice Awards hosted by Kaley Cuoco^[1] aired live on August 7, 2011 at 8/7c on Fox. This was the first time that the ceremonies were aired live since the 2007 show.

Ratings[link]

The show was viewed by an estimated 3.17 million Americans with a 1.1/3 18-49 rating/share.^[2]

Performers[link]

• will.i.am (DJ Host)
• Selena Gomez & the Scene - "Love You Like a Love Song"
• Jason Derülo - "Don't Wanna Go Home"
• OneRepublic - "Good Life"

Presenters[link]

• Charice
• Tyra Banks
• Taylor Swift
• Jason Bateman
• Cat Deeley
• Demi Lovato
• Taylor Lautner
• Kellan Lutz
• Nikki Reed
• Kristen Bell
• Joel McHale
• The Black Eyed Peas
• Justin Bieber
• Cameron Diaz
• Kim Kardashian
• Kourtney Kardashian
• Khloé Kardashian
• Victoria Justice
• Ed Helms
• Shaun White
• Lucy Hale
• Tom Felton
• Rupert Grint
• Rachel Bilson
• Paul Wesley
• Kat Graham
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse
• Shane West
• John Cena
• The Miz
• Tyler Posey
• Avril Lavigne
• Joe Jonas
• Rebecca Black
• Nina Dobrev
• Ian Somerhalder
• Vanessa Marano
• Katie Leclerc
• Ashley Greene
• Blake Lively
• Emma Stone
• Daniel Radcliffe (special tribute)

[edit] Awards^[3]

Choice Movie[link]

Choice Music[link]

Choice TV[link]

Summer[link]

Choice Other[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official TCA Website

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Teen Choice Awards
2012 Teen Choice Awards
Presented by	Fox
Country	United States
Reward	Authentic surfboards
First awarded	August 1, 1999
Official website	Website
Television coverage
Network	Fox
Runtime	Approx. 90-120 min. including commercials

The Teen Choice Awards is an annual awards show that air on the Fox Network. The awards honor the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with the graphics of that year's show.

History[link]

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As the executive producers, Bob Bain and Michael Burg came together to create an award show geared toward a teen demographic, somewhat older than that of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, but similar to that of MTV. Greg Sills has been the supervising producer and Paul Flattery has been the producer for all of the shows since its inception in 1999.

The format of the show has remained the same, awarding the achievements of those in the entertainment and athletic industries with non-traditional categories fixed into the ceremony. The show was held at the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport for its first two shows in 1999 and 2000. However, since 2001, it has been held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA. Some years it airs live, but usually it airs on a one day delay.Global promotion provided by Kroszover Entertainment

Ballots were once used in teen-oriented magazines, where readers were to purchase and tear out their ballot. Votes could also be cast online through Fox.com. In 2008, Fox and the show's producers created Teenchoiceawards.com as the official website for the Teen Choice Awards. That year, over 32 million votes were cast.^{[citation needed]} In 2009, the number of votes cast was in excess of 83 million. That same year "teenchoicegirl" appeared on Twitter. She is actually a teenage girl working on the show as an intern and keeps fans informed of news and gossip. In just a few weeks she had over 28,000 followers.

Since the ceremony's inception, the show has given out genuine custom-made surfboards to individual winners (they cost over $800 each to manufacture). They create a new original design every year. The surfboard was chosen as the award because it represents the freedom of the summer vacation for teens, whether they surf or not. Some celebrities have used them to surf (Jennifer Love Hewitt); Marlon Wayans famously said "Brothers don't surf" and in 2009, Hugh Jackman, upon winning his first one, said he was no longer the only Australian without a surfboard.

With 20 nominations and 12 Teen Choice Awards won, Miley Cyrus is to date, the most nominated and the most awarded individual artist in the Teen Choice Awards history.

Award categories[link]

Movies[link]

TV[link]

Music[link]

Summer's categories[link]

• Choice Summer: Movie — Action Adventure
• Choice Summer: Movie — Comedy
• Choice Summer: Movie — Drama
• Choice Summer: Movie — Romance
• Choice Summer: Movie Actor
• Choice Summer: Movie Actress
• Choice Summer: TV Show
• Choice Summer: TV Actor
• Choice Summer: TV Actress
• Choice Summer: Hissy Fit
• Choice Summer: Song

Non-traditional categories[link]

• Choice Hottie (male)
• Choice Hottie (female)
• Choice Red Carpet Icon (female)
• Choice Red Carpet Icon (male)
• Choice Web Star
• Choice Twit award
• Choice Vampire

Do Something[link]

In 2008, Dosomething.org sponsored The Do Something Award—which recognized amazing young people. Nine nominees—who saw a problem in the world and then tackled it—each won $10,000 for their cause. One lucky winner received the $100,000 grand prize. The Do Something Award (formerly the BR!CK Awards) is a program of Do Something, a New York-based non-profit that reaches about 11.5 million young people annually. The award is not being presented in 2009. It was replaced with "Choice Celebrity Activist" which was won by Hayden Panettiere.

Special awards[link]

Extraordinary Achievement

• 2000: Serena & Venus Williams
• 2001: Sarah Michelle Gellar
• 2002: Reese Witherspoon

Courage Award

• 2004: Bethany Hamilton

Visionary Award

• 2005: Gwen Stefani

Ultimate Choice Award

• 2003: Mike Myers
• 2007: Justin Timberlake
• 2009: Britney Spears
• 2011: Taylor Swift

Acuvue Inspire Award

• 2011: Demi Lovato

Note: Special Awards are not given every year.

Summary[link]

Controversy[link]

Parents Television Council has been a prominent critic of the Teen Choice Awards, claiming that they glorify celebrities who promote immoral messages to teenagers. PTC founder L. Brent Bozell criticized the 2000,^[1] 2005,^[2] and 2006^[3] awards ceremonies for awarding R rated films and other entertainers allegedly not appropriate for teenagers, claiming it showed "how successfully Hollywood has marketed adult fare to the young."^[1] Bozell also attacked Nelly Furtado's and Timbaland's performance of their hit song "Promiscuous" in the 2006 awards ceremony for "promoting a message to teens about sex by performing their song," which contains lyrics about sex, and then telling the audience to perform safe sex with condoms. The PTC also named the 2005^[4] and 2006^[5] awards ceremonies the "Worst Family TV Show of the Week" after their initial broadcasts on Fox.

See also[link]

• Kids' Choice Awards

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} L. Brent Bozell. Teens' Bad Choices: Who's to Blame? Parents Television Council. August 30, 2000. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
2. ^ L. Brent Bozell. "Terrifying 'Teen Choice' Champions". Parents Television Council. August 18, 2005. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
3. ^ L. Brent Bozell. Growing the Teens Too Fast. Parents Television Council. August 31, 2006. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
4. ^ Teen Choice Awards on Fox - Worst Family TV Shows of the Week. Parents Television Council. August 22, 2005. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
5. ^ Worst Family TV Show of the Week - Teen Choice Awards on Fox. Parents Television Council August 24, 2006. Retrieved April 15, 2007

External links[link]

• Official website

The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards (WCCA) are annual awards in which online cartoonists nominate and select outstanding webcomics. The awards have been held since 2001, were featured in a The New York Times column on webcomics in 2005,^[1] and have been mentioned as a tool for librarians.^[2]

The WCCA represent a form of peer recognition, with voting rights granted only to creators working on online webcomics.^[3] Winners of awards receive an individualized web banner for their site,^[1] although MegaCon announced in 2007 that a live presentation would be made for the first time.^[4] In 2003, 2005 and 2006 the awards were presented in an online ceremony depicted in comic strip form and involving a number of creators.^[3]

The WCCA were started by Scott Maddix and Mark Mekkes in 2000,^[3] with the first awards made in 2001. Mekkes noted his motivation as being to "create a webcomic award process that would do the most to help the webcomic community and encourage creators to strive toward greatness."^[3] Mekkes set up a committee to run the awards, initially known as the Cartoonists' Choice Awards, assuming the position of chairman, a role he was still holding in 2007.^[3] A press release on The Dreamland Chronicles' nomination described the committee as "an independent organization dedicated to the promotion and recognition of online comics and their creators."^[5] However, committee member Lewis Powell^[6] has criticised the awards as being "horribly mismanaged, they are not well organized and they don't do what they are supposed to" and that "Problems with the WCCAs [include] making people aware of them, getting people to care about them."^[7]

Other problems have included the award ceremony being delayed due to "technical difficulties". In 2006 it was not ready until five days after the winners had been announced.^[8][9]

Eric Monster Millikin romance comics controversy[link]

In 2006, voters chose Eric Millikin's horror/romance comic Eric Monster Millikin (then called Fetus-X) as one of the top five finalists for the "Outstanding Romance Comic" award; however, it was disqualified by the awards' executive committee. The WCCA committee wrote that "Foetus-X's [sic] nomination for "Outstanding Romance Comic" does not comply with the Outstanding Romance Comic category's genre criteria"^[10] of "addressing issues of love and romance in their stories, settings and characters."^[11] Fetus-X was disqualified despite the awards committee's position that "We never want to limit the voters choices in any way. ... It's been very important that we not 'water down' these awards by controlling the results ..."^[12]

This move was roundly criticized, with Comixtalk publisher Xaviar Xerexes saying "throwing out the Fetus X nomination a few years ago was a mistake, the WCCAs by definition are supposed to be based on votes and there should not have been any kind of 'veto' like the executive committee enacted."^[13] Websnark blogger Eric Burns complained that "if you're going to ask Webcartoonists to nominate who they think is the best in given categories, and then you drop their nominations because you don't agree with them ... then what exactly's the point?"^[14]

In 2007, Millikin's comic was again nominated for "Outstanding Romantic Comic," but was not disqualified by the executive committee. ^[15] In 2008, the executive committee went to the lengths of removing the romance comics award and all other genre award categories in an attempt to avoid further controversy.^[16]

Top award winners[link]

The awards have numerous categories. The comic strip to have achieved the most awards is the now-finished Mac Hall with 9, followed by Chopping Block and The Perry Bible Fellowship which have received 8 awards, and Penny Arcade and Count Your Sheep which have won 7 awards.

References[link]