VIDEO: Watch Ellen DeGeneres inspiring speech at the Teen Choice Awards

The Teen Choice Awards ran last night, with 25 million American teens voting for their favourite actors, bands, kisses, movies, TV shows and a whole lot more across a staggering number of categories.

And the Teen Choice comedian of the year was hotly contested with a quartet of dudes included - George Lopez, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Kevin Hart.

But the real battle was definitely between the ladies on the list which included veteran player Ellen DeGeneres and new kid on the block (relatively speaking) Amy Schumer. And Ellen took the grand prize, taking to the stage to pick up her celebratory surfboard.