Mo’nique, Precious, Elba lead 2010 BET movie award winners
Mon, Jun 28, 2010
While music dominated the stage at the 10th Anniversary special presentation of the BET Awards, Hollywood picked up a few honors Sunday.
Leading the pack after garnering Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations is ‘Precious: Based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire’.
Winning the first ever BET Award for Best Movie, ‘Precious’ topped nominated films including Avatar. The film’s Academy Award winning actress, Mo’Nique, also won Best Actress.
Following Mo’Nique, ‘Takers’ and ‘Obsessed’ actor Idris Elba won Best Actor, an award he faced off with Denzel Washington to claim.
Mo’Nique and Elba follows previous BET Award movie/film related winners Taraji P. Henson, Jennifer Hudson and Halle Berry as well as Will Smith, Forest Whitaker and Jamie Foxx.
As previously reported, the 2010 BET Awards were hosted by Queen Latifah (‘Just Wright,’ ‘Chicago’) and aired LIVE from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA Sunday, June 27, 2010.
Source: Examiner
Tags: BET Awards, movie, precious
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