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People's Choice Awards
Current: 49th People's Choice Awards
Sponsored by	Procter & Gamble (1982–2017) E! (2018–present)
Country	United States
First awarded	March 3, 1975; 49 years ago (1975-03-03)
Website	https://www.votepca.com/
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBS (1975–2017) E! (2018–present) NBC (2021–present) Peacock (2024–present)

The People's Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the fans and general public. The show has been held annually since 1975, with the winners originally determined using Gallup Polls until a switch to online voting in 2005.

The awards were created by Bob Stivers, who produced the first show in 1975. The first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the year's Favorite Film Actress, and John Wayne as its Favorite Film Actor. So far, Ellen DeGeneres and Taylor Swift are the most awarded people, with a total of 20 awards each.

In 1982, Stivers sold the People's Choice Awards to Procter & Gamble Productions (P&G); under P&G, the ceremony was broadcast by CBS, and Procter & Gamble's brands held exclusive national advertising time across the entire telecast.

In April 2017, the E! network announced that they had acquired the People's Choice Awards. The ceremony was initially shifted from a January scheduling to November to reduce its proximity to the busier months of awards season, but this was reverted for 2024 with a move to February. Since 2021, the ceremony has aired on E!'s sister broadcast network NBC. In September 2023, NBC also began to host the People's Choice Country Awards as a spin-off.

Categories

The award categories have varied over the years. For example, the 16th People's Choice Awards had categories including Favorite All-Around Movie (Batman), and both a Favorite Movie Actor (Tom Cruise) and a World Favorite Movie Actor (Dustin Hoffman). At the 23rd People's Choice Awards, Rob Reiner was named the People's Choice Awards Honoree. The 32nd People's Choice Awards (broadcast in January 2006) included categories such as Favorite On-Screen Match-Up (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers), Favorite Leading Lady (Reese Witherspoon), Favorite Tour (U2), and an award named after a Procter & Gamble brand: Nice 'n Easy Fans Favorite Hair (Faith Hill). In 2008, the People's Choice Awards introduced a new category: Favorite Sci-Fi Show. The nominees were Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, and Doctor Who. Stargate Atlantis was the first recipient of the award.

Poll-based awards

In the 20th century, the awards were based on results from Gallup polls. Each year, Gallup took a survey of different categories for favorite actor, actress, movie, artist, television program or group. The scope was unlimited—the public could choose whomever or whatever it liked. The results of the annual survey were announced in the form of the People's Choice Awards. Since polls have margins of error, many years' awards have had ties in at least one category, when Gallup declared that the voting was so close that a single winner could not be chosen. For instance, in 2003, both Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring were recognized as Favorite Motion Picture.

Switch to online voting

The winners of the 31st People's Choice Awards (on January 9, 2005) were decided by online voting rather than Gallup polls. The nominees submitted for Internet voting were selected using an unpublished process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly, the show's production team and a panel of pop culture fans.

The nominees for the 32nd People's Choice Awards were determined by the web research company Knowledge Networks, which took a nationally representative sample of men and women ages 18 to 54, with and without Internet access, to come up with the nominees. After being presented with a list of candidates determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses and album sales, they had the option to write in their favorites. Knowledge Networks recruits its panel by using a RDD phone recruitment method and provides a web TV and Internet access to households without Internet access enabling them to infer back to the entire population.

The nominees for the 2010 People's Choice Awards were determined by the media research company Visible Measures, which specializes in measuring Internet video audience behavior. The announcement of this partnership stated,

"For the first time ever, the People's Choice Awards has incorporated Internet video viewing data into the initial nominee selection process, depending on Visible Measures True Reach metrics to objectively measure online video popularity. Visible Measures worked with the People's Choice Awards to determine each potential nominees' popularity on a True Reach basis, a unique measure of the total audience that has been exposed to an online video campaign – regardless of how widely the campaign spreads or where it appears. To measure True Reach, Visible Measures deploys a robust and patented set of technologies with the goal of capturing the universe of Internet video viewership data in near real-time."

Former categories

These are some of the past categories for the People's Choice Awards:

Current categories

The first ceremony in 1975 had 14 categories. In 2016, 74 categories were established.

As of 2018, these are the current categories:

Special awards

Ceremonies

People's Choice Country Awards

On March 9, 2023, NBC announced the People's Choice Country Awards, a spin-off focusing on country music. The inaugural ceremony was held on September 28, 2023, at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by Little Big Town. As of 2024, Zach Bryan is the most nominated act of the ceremony with 24 nominations, while Beyoncé is the most nominated female act of the award show with 17.

Ceremonies

Special awards

Country Icon Award

• Toby Keith (2023)
• Miranda Lambert (2024)

Country Champion Award

• Wynonna Judd (2023)
• Kane Brown (2024)

See also

• People's Choice Awards Australia
• People's Choice Awards India
• People's Choice Podcast Awards

References

1. Stillman, Josh (October 9, 2012). "Kaley Cuoco to host People's Choice Awards". CNN. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
2. Lee, Chris (December 19, 2007). "People's Choice Awards: Strike Leaves Little Choice". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
3. "Bob Stivers; Producer of Celebrity Specials for TV". Los Angeles Times. February 20, 1988. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
4. "Bob Stivers, 66, Dies; Produced TV Specials". The New York Times. February 20, 1988. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
5. "Past Nominees & Winners: 1975". People's Choice. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
6. "People's Choice Awards 2017: Complete Winners List". Us Weekly. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
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9. Ramos, Dino-Ray (December 14, 2017). "People's Choice Awards Sets Premiere Date For Inaugural Telecast On E!". Deadline. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
10. Andreeva, Nellie (April 6, 2017). "People's Choice Awards Moves From CBS To E!". Deadline. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
11. Haring, Bruce (September 24, 2018). "E! People's Choice Awards Finalists Set – Voting Open Through Oct. 19". Deadline. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
12. Denise Petski (June 14, 2023). "People's Choice Awards Sets 2024 Date; Will Air Live On NBC, E!, & For The First Time, On Peacock". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
13. White, Peter (July 28, 2021). "'People's Choice Awards' To Air On NBC In December". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
14. "Visible Measures Selected as Internet Video Measurement Partner for People's Choice Awards 2010". Shoot. October 29, 2009. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
15. Motaski, Lauren (November 3, 2015). "People's Choice Awards 2016 Nominees Are Out". CBS. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
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17. "People's Choice Awards Past Nominees & Winners: 2009". People's Choice Awards. Sycamore Productions Inc. Archived from the original on December 28, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
18. Lewis, Hilary (November 15, 2016). "People's Choice Awards: 'Captain America: Civil War,' Kevin Hart Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
19. Ramos, Dino-Ray (September 5, 2018). "FILM BREAKING NEWS E! People's Choice Awards Unveils New Categories; Opens Nomination Voting". Deadline. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
20. Macke, Johnni (September 5, 2018). "2018 People's Choice Awards: Complete List of Nominations". E! Online. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
21. Willman, Chris (March 9, 2023). "NBC, 'People's Choice Awards' Create Separate Country Music Show". Variety. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
22. Grein, Paul (March 9, 2023). "First-Ever People's Choice Country Awards Coming to NBC & Peacock This Year". Billabard. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
23. Campione, Katie (July 30, 2023). "Little Big Town To Host Inaugural People's Choice Country Awards". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
24. Porter, Rick (March 9, 2023). "People's Choice Adds Country Music Awards Show". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 18, 2024.

External links

• Official website
• "People's Choice Awards: You showed up? Here's a trophy!" from Entertainment Weekly
• A 35th Anniversary article from The Hollywood Reporter

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