'The Help' Cast to Receive Ensemble Acting Award

Viola Davis and the cast of "The Help" are set to receive a Hollywood Film Award.

ESSENCE.COM Sep, 20, 2011

Award Season is just beginning, and actress Viola Davis is already off to a great start.

The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards announced that it has selected “The Help,” to receive this year’s Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award.

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To date, “The Help” has earned more than $150 million in theaters worldwide and topped box-office charts for the first three weekends of its release.

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Davis will accept the award with co-stars Octavia Spencer, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O’Reilly, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen and Mike Vogel.