Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 45-year-old won a host of awards for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. Whitaker started acting in 1982's teen hit Fast Times at Ridgemont High after an injury ended his sporting career, reports BBC.
Best Picture Babel The Departed Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen
Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio [Blood Diamond] Ryan Gosling [Half Nelson] Peter O'Toole [Venus] Will Smith [The Pursuit of Happyness] Forest Whitaker [The Last King of Scotland]
Best Actress Penelope Cruz [Volver] Judi Dench [Notes on a Scandal] Helen Mirren [The Queen] Meryl Streep [The Devil Wears Prada] Kate Winslet [Little Children]
Best Supporting Actor Alan Arkin [Little Miss Sunshine] Jackie Earle Haley [Little Children] Djimon Hounsou [Blood Diamond] Eddie Murphy [Dreamgirls] Mark Wahlberg [The Departed]
Best Supporting Actress Adriana Barraza [Babel] Cate Blanchett [Notes on a Scandal] Abigail Breslin [Little Miss Sunshine] Jennifer Hudson [Dreamgirls] Rinko Kikuchi [Babel]
Best Directing Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu [Babel] Martin Scorsese [The Departed] Clint Eastwood [Letters From Iwo Jima] Stephen Frears [The Queen] Paul Greengrass [United 93]
Best Foreign Language Film After the Wedding [Denmark] Days of Glory (Indigenes) [Algeria] The Lives of Others [Germany] Pan's Labyrinth [Mexico] Water [Canada]
Best Adapted Screenplay Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips [Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan] Alfonso Cuaron and Timothy J Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby [Children of Men] William Monahan [The Departed] Todd Field and Tom Perrotta [Little Children] Patrick Marber [Notes on a Scanda]
Best Original Screenplay Guillermo Arriaga [Babel] Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis [Letters From Iwo Jima] Michael Arndt [Little Miss Sunshine] Guillermo del Toro [Pan's Labyrinth] Peter Morgan [The Queen]
Best Animated Feature Film Cars Happy Feet Monster House
BEST TV DRAMA SERIES 24 BEST ACTRESS IN A TV DRAMA Kyra Sedgwick [The Closer] BEST ACTOR IN A TV DRAMA Hugh Laurie [House] BEST TV COMEDY Ugly Betty BEST ACTRESS IN A TV COMEDY America Ferrera [Ugly Betty] BEST ACTOR IN A TV COMEDY Alec Baldwin [30 Rock] BEST TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE Elizabeth I BEST ACTRESS IN A TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE Helen Mirren [Elizabeth I] BEST ACTOR IN A TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE Bill Nighy [Gideon's Daughter] BEST MOTION PICTURE — DRAMA Babel America Ferrera
