Robert De Niro, Carey Mulligan and Will Smith were among the big winners at the first major ceremony of the film awards season. De Niro was presented with the Hollywood Career Achievement Award at the 19th annual Hollywood Film Awards in Beverly Hills.
Mulligan was given the Hollywood Actress Award for her role in Suffragette and Smith took home the Hollywood Actor Award for his portrayal of a doctor in new film Concussion, about the discovery of brain trauma in a professional American football player.
The ceremony marks the start of a long run of awards shows in Los Angeles leading up to the Oscars on February 28, 2016, including the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Alicia Vikander was presented with the Hollywood Breakout Actress Film for her role in The Danish Girl and Trainwreck's Amy Schumer took home the Hollywood Comedy Award for the film she wrote and starred in. There were also gongs for the cast of Furious 7, which was named Hollywood Blockbuster, the actors in Straight Outta Compton, who were given the Hollywood Breakout Ensemble Award, and the stars of Quentin Tarantino's highly anticipated new film The Hateful Eight, which won The Hollywood Ensemble Award.
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