HOLLYWOOD - Will Smith, Mariah Carey, Green Day, Madagascar and Harry Potter are leading the nominations at this year's Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, with two nods each.
Rapper/actor Smith is up for Favorite Movie Actor for Hitch and Favorite Male Singer. Carey is up for Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Song for “We Belong Together” and punk trio Green Day is up for Favorite Music Group and Favorite Song for “Wake Me Up When September Ends.”
Meanwhile, J.K. Rowling's wizard creation is up in both literary and film categories: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will fight Are We There Yet?, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Herbie: Fully Loaded for Favorite Movie, as well the series of novels being up for Best Book.
The annual children's ceremony will be hosted by King Kong star Jack Black on April 1 at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion.
Black enthuses, "I'm super excited to be hosting Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards because when you're doing a show for the kids, you can get extra crazy and loony. I have a lot of secret plans for when I host the awards, but I can tell you I'm going to bring the super-duper, freaky-deaky, ultra-clowny super dance! But that's all I'll say."
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