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'Star Trek' wins Hollywood Movie Award

J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" walked off with the Hollywood Movie Award at the 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival's awards ceremony, which took place Monday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The prize was determined by online voting at the Yahoo! Movies Web site, where more than 160,000 votes were cast.

The ceremony's World Award, chosen by a panel of judges, went to Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon."

At a separate ceremony Sunday night at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, the fest handed out its Discovery Awards.

Kim Tae-kyun's "Crossing" was named best feature film, while Mai Iskander's "Garbage Dreams" was singled out as best documentary. Other winners were: Todd Berger's "Scenesters," comedy; Andrew Zimbelman's "Stories from the Perch," animation; Stephen Huff's Lambs," short subject; and Brian Thompson "As I Lay Daying -- The Sound of Truth," music video.

At the Monday awards gala, the fest doled out honors to Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank, Christoph Waltz, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Melanie Lynskey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Schneider, and Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe for acting, Bradley Cooper for comedy, Kathryn Bigelow and Lee Daniels for directing; Ryan Kavanaugh for producing; Nora Ephron, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for screenwriting; "Up," directed by Pete Docter, for animation; Alexandre Desplat for film composing; Roger Deakins for cinematography; Dana Glauberman for editing; Scott Farrar ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen") for visual effects; Rick Carter for production design; and Colleen Atwood for costume design.


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The Hollywood Humanitarian Award was presented to Father Rick Frechette for his devotion to the medical needs of children in the Caribbean and around the world.

'Star Trek' wins Hollywood Movie Award

Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore pick up acting prizes

By Gregg Kilday

Oct 27, 2009, 04:22 PM ET

J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" walked off with the Hollywood Movie Award at the 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival's awards ceremony, which took place Monday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The prize was determined by online voting at the Yahoo! Movies Web site, where more than 160,000 votes were cast.

The ceremony's World Award, chosen by a panel of judges, went to Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon."

At a separate ceremony Sunday night at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, the fest handed out its Discovery Awards.

Kim Tae-kyun's "Crossing" was named best feature film, while Mai Iskander's "Garbage Dreams" was singled out as best documentary. Other winners were: Todd Berger's "Scenesters," comedy; Andrew Zimbelman's "Stories from the Perch," animation; Stephen Huff's Lambs," short subject; and Brian Thompson "As I Lay Daying -- The Sound of Truth," music video.

At the Monday awards gala, the fest doled out honors to Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank, Christoph Waltz, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Melanie Lynskey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Schneider, and Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe for acting, Bradley Cooper for comedy, Kathryn Bigelow and Lee Daniels for directing; Ryan Kavanaugh for producing; Nora Ephron, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for screenwriting; "Up," directed by Pete Docter, for animation; Alexandre Desplat for film composing; Roger Deakins for cinematography; Dana Glauberman for editing; Scott Farrar ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen") for visual effects; Rick Carter for production design; and Colleen Atwood for costume design.


The Hollywood Humanitarian Award was presented to Father Rick Frechette for his devotion to the medical needs of children in the Caribbean and around the world.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3icf13d4806aba58de0e159c7b286cadd7

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