The festival and awards, co-chaired by Paul Haggis and presented by

Starz, announced this year's winner of the "Hollywood Movie of the

Year Award" -- Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" -- which was

chosen by the public voting online at the Yahoo! Movies website. The

voting site received 20 million unique visitors and over 125,000 votes

were cast. The nominees for the "Hollywood Movie of the Year Award"

were: "The Dark Knight," "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!," "Hancock,"

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," "Iron Man,"

"Kung Fu Panda," "Sex and the City," "Tropic Thunder," "Wall-E," and

"Wanted."

The winners of the festival's film competition were announced Sunday

night at the "Hollywood Discovery Awards® Awards Presentation Ceremony

at ArcLight Cinemas. This year's winners are: "COOK COUNTY" by David

Pomes -- Best Feature Film, "THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN" by Dilip Mehta --

Best Documentary, "THE MAGISTICAL" by Danny Oakley and John M. Cernak

-- Best Animation, "JANEY MARY" by Paul Brady -- Best Short Subject,

"DON'T CRY (THE BLACK GHOSTS)" by Jack Pettibone -- Hollywood Mobile

Award.

Special honors went to Dustin Hoffman for career achievement, Ben

Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" for comedy, Josh Brolin, Kirstin Scott

Thomas, Marisa Tomei, James Franco, Sally Hawkins and Robert Pattinson

for acting; Clint Eastwood and John Patrick Shanley for directing;

Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas for producing; John

Patrick Shanley and Dustin Lance Black for screenwriting; "Wall-E,"

directed by Andrew Stanton, for animation; Danny Elfman for film

composing; Mandy Walker for cinematography; Daniel P. Hanley and Mike

Hill for editing; John Nelson and Ben Snow ("Iron Man") for visual

effects; and Sarah Greenwood for production design; and Deborah Hopper

for costume design.

In addition "Variety" announced and introduced this year's "10 Actors

to Watch" award recipients: Viola Davis, Kat Dennings, Rebecca Hall,

Armie Hammer, Taraji Henson, Michael Kelly, Melissa Leo, Chris Pine,

Michael Shannon and Mia Wasikowska.

The festival also honored the Screen Actors Guild on its 75th

anniversary.