They HSM3 star looked surprised and grateful for the award. She came to the show with her new boyfriend Scott Speer, so I guess things are going well. More pictures below (and hopefully a video clip later!).

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Zac’s movie award moment was kind of weird! Bruno was flying through the air and landed in Eminem’s lap. Strange! The HSM3 star also presented the Generation award to Zac Efron.

On the red carpet, Zac talked about Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s kiss in “Twilight”. He and co-star Vanessa Hudgens were nominated in the same category. You can see what he thought of the kiss scene in the video clip here.

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Here are the categories that the movies/actors/songs were nominated in and who they are up against:

Best Movie
The Dark Night
High School Musical 3
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Twilight

Best Male Performance
Christian Bale
Robert Downey Jr.
Shia LaBeouf
Vin Diesel
Zac Efron

Breakthrough Performance Female
Amanda Seyfried
Ashley Tisdale
Freida Pinto
Kat Dennings
Miley Cyrus
Vanessa Hudgens

Best Kiss
Angelina Jolie & James McAvoy
Freida Pinto & Dev Patel
James Franco & Sean Penn
Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson
Paul Rudd & Thomas Lennon
Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron

Best Song from a Movie (New Category)

“Jai Ho” – AR Raham, Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight)
“The Wrestler” – Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight)

“The Climb” – Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie (Walt Disney Pictures) “Decode” – Paramore, Twilight (Summit Entertainment)

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Hayleigh and William Hittle of Nora Springs, Iowa are the grand prize winners of the Sara Lee Soft & Smooth and Disney’s “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” Sweepstakes.  Kids all over the country entered the sweepstakes at www.thejoyofeating.com for their chance to win $5,000 worth of lunchtime groceries, a screening of HSM3, lunch served by Corbin, AND the tile of “Honorary Wildcat” for the day.

Before Bleu helped serve lunch (made with Sara Lee Soft & Smooth Bread) he talked with everyone about how important it is to eat whole grains.  During the event, the Hittle family was given their check for $5,000 to keep making healthy lunches.

More photos below.

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(Although the HUGE battle is between “Twilight” and “Slumdog Millionaire” for Best Movie!)

Here are the categories that the movies/actors/songs were nominated in and who they are up against:

Best Movie
The Dark Night
High School Musical 3
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Twilight

Best Male Performance
Christian Bale
Robert Downey Jr.
Shia LaBeouf
Vin Diesel
Zac Efron

Breakthrough Performance Female
Amanda Seyfried
Ashley Tisdale
Freida Pinto
Kat Dennings
Miley Cyrus
Vanessa Hudgens

Best Kiss
Angelina Jolie & James McAvoy
Freida Pinto & Dev Patel
James Franco & Sean Penn
Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson
Paul Rudd & Thomas Lennon
Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron

Best Song from a Movie (New Category)

“Jai Ho” – AR Raham, Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight)
“The Wrestler” – Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight)

“The Climb” – Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana: The Movie (Walt Disney Pictures) “Decode” – Paramore, Twilight (Summit Entertainment

Source: MTV

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Vanessa has received an MTV Movie Awards nomination for her role in “High School Musical 3”. Where can we see Vanessa next? In an entirely different role in the teen musical comedy “Bandslam”.

The HSM star chatted with MTV about her new role.

"I didn’t think it would be this much music when I came here," she told MTV News on the set of "Bandslam" in Austin, Texas, last year. "And they are like, ‘We are going to have two weeks of music rehearsals,’ and I was like, ‘What?’ But it was really cool. It’s definitely not the kind of music I do normally.

"It’s more rock and actually I play guitar in it, and I had to learn and I was really nervous because I didn’t want to look stupid," she said about having to learn to play an instrument for the film. "But I think I pulled it off — I’m keeping my fingers crossed."

You can catch Vanessa Hudgens in “Bandslam” on August 14, 2009. More photos of Vanessa at LAX below.

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Best Movie: Hannah Montana: The Movie, High School Musical 3 and Wall-E

Best Female Performance: Miley Cyrus

Best Male Performance: Zac Efron

Breakthrough Performance Female: Miley Cyrus, Vanessa Hudgens

You can see all of the nomination here. Who do you hope will win?

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“High School Musical 3″ wins Favorite Movie at the 2009 Kids’ Choice Awards! Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu were there to accept the award.

They all thanked various people who had a hand in the movie, including director/choreographer Kenny Ortega. Zac also gave a shout out to Monique Coleman and Lucas Grabeel who couldn’t be there. At the end, Corbin said this was the last chance for him to do this and he chanted “What team?” and the crowd answered “Wild Cats!”.

Congratulation to High School Musical 3! Arrival pictures below.

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On Sunday, March 1st, Zac Efron tried going under cover in Hollywood, CA by driving around in a Toyota minivan. Unfortunately, just about nothing gets passed the paparazzi these days. They spotted him and snapped his picture. My question is, who’s minivan is that?

In other Zac Efron news, the “High School Musical” star has recognized by movie goers as the Breakthrough Performer of the Year. This is a new award from ShoWest and they gave it to Zac. Sweet!

If you watched any of the HSM3 extras on the DVD, then you probably saw the clip where Zac is trying his hand at being behind the camera. After messing with it for a few seconds, he gets called to the set and says, “I think I’ll stick with acting”. Well, we would like you too!

What’s up next for Zac? Find out below!

What’s up next for Zac Efron? He has a new movie that’s coming out in the U.S. on April 17th called “17 Again”. He’s getting ready to head to Sydney, Australia to premiere the film there on March 11th.

Other movies that Zac has in his future are the remake of “Footloose” and he’s rumored to be starring in “Johnny Quest”. Looks like we’ll be seeing a lot of Mr. Efron!

Check out some more photos of Zac trying to be incognito.

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My friend Nikki at Celeb Look, had the opportunity to talk to Caroline B. Marx, who was the costume designer for “High School Musical 3”. She shared with Nikki her concepts behind the designs and also gave her some tips on what’s hot for spring and promo season.

On whether it was easier to expand on the existing characters or design for the new ones: “The thing is that you want to make every single person different. It’s interesting. Normally when I go into a film they don’t exist. I’m the one who comes up with the idea. I do research and kind of look into their character, their personality, where they came from. With the new characters it was definitely like that. In Jimmy, to me, the youngest, hippest kids out have the Emo vibe with the skater mixed in. I chose really cool, up and coming designers like Fyasko and Space Craft with Draven and Vans shoes. That’s what the younger, skater/surfer kids are wearing! With Jemma, I kind of gave her an English school girl look. Really cute and conservative jumpers and blazers. We used a lot of Rugby and Ralph Lauren, American Eagle, argyle sweaters, stuff like that. At the end, in the extended version, you’ll see her in a full blown English riding costume.”

This was a great interview and if you loved the costumes in HSM3 and want to know more about what all went in to create them, then read the rest of the interview:

Part 1

Part 2

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