Avatar, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey Jr, James Cameron, Matt Damon, and Penelope Cruz were the top winners at the Green Planet Movie Awards, which are supposed to acknowledge the "power of movies to inspire environmental and humanitarian efforts."
The awards are sponsored by the Southern California-based Academia Foundation and Anaheim University. Viewers from around the world select the winners. Hosted by Tamlyn Tomita, the awards ceremony took place Tuesday night at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Sandra Bullock won Best Actress for The Blind Side; Robert Downey Jr. was the Best Actor for Sherlock Holmes, James Cameron won Best Director for Avatar, Matt Damon won Best Supporting Actor for Invictus, and Penelope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for Nine.
In addition to its Best Picture win, Avatar was voted Best Science Fiction film and Best Action film.
Other winners include An Inconvenient Truth as the Best Environmental Film of the Decade, Earth as the Best International Environmental Film of the Decade, Hotel Rwanda as the Best Humanitarian Film of the Decade, and Slumdog Millionaire as the Best Foreign Cultural Film of the Decade.
Also, a special tribute was held in honor of Carrie Hamilton, who died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 38. Her mother, Carol Burnett, was present at the ceremony.
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Photo: Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox)