Hollywood Film Awards honor Quvenzhane Wallis, Apatow and others

The 16th annual Hollywood Film Awards, which take place Oct. 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, have announced that “Knocked Up” writer/director/producer Judd Apatow will be the recipient this year of the Hollywood Comedy Award.

Indie actor John Hawkes, who earned an Oscar nomination for 2010’s “Winter’s Bone” and has received acclaim for the upcoming “The Sessions,” is the winner of the Hollywood Breakout Performance Award. Nine-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis of “Beasts of the Southern Wild” has been tapped to receive the New Hollywood Award. Director Christopher Nolan’s cinematographer, Wally Pfister, is the winner of the Hollywood Cinematographer Award while VFX supervisors Janek Sirrs and Jeff White will receive the Hollywood Visual Effects Award for “The Avengers.”

“We are very proud to be on the first stop of the awards season,” said Carlos de Abreu, founder and executive director of the Hollywood Film Awards. (The Los Angeles Times is the presenting sponsor of the event). “In the last nine years, a total of 85 Oscar nominations and 32 Oscars were given to the honorees of the Hollywood Film Awards.

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