The Anti-Defamation League awarded Steven Spielberg its highest honor, the America’s Democratic Legacy Award, at a gala Wednesday at the Beverly Hilton.
Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan, Walter Annenberg, Henry Kissinger and John F. Kennedy also have received the award.
“We picked him a long time ago, and waited with patience,” said ADL’s national director Abraham Foxman of Spielberg, at the cocktail reception. Guests included dinner Co-Chairmen Sid Sheinberg, Bruce Ramer, Harold Brown and Jeffrey Katzenberg; DreamWorks partner Stacey Snider and President Jeff Small; ADL national Chairman Robert Sugarman, and ADL’s regional board Chairwoman Nicole Mutchnik, director Amanda Susskind and Vice-Chairman Steven Nichols; plus Richard Dreyfuss, Noa Dori and Adam Lambert.
Above, producer Jeffrey Katzenberg greets Spielberg as they arrive at the gala. (Danny Moloshok / Associated Press)
L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, left, actor Richard Dreyfuss and producer Sid Sheinberg. (Michael Kovac / WireImage.com)
DreamWorks President Jeff Small, left, and DreamWorks partner Stacey Snider. (An earlier version of this caption misidentified Small as DreamWorks’ chief operating officer, and Snider as the company’s animation chief executive.) (Michael Kovac / WireImage.com)
Singer/songwriter Noa Dori, left, and singer Adam Lambert. (Michael Kovac / WireImage.com)
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Singer Adam Lambert performs at the dinner. (Michael Kovac / WireImage.com)
Actress Drew Barrymore embraces director Steven Spielberg at the dinner. (Michael Kovac / WireImage.com)
Power players in Hollywood were on the agenda when guests gathered for the Hollywood Reporter’s recent Power 100 Women in Entertainment breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
And in keeping with the title of the event, Halle Berry received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, Hilary Swank gave the keynote address, Eva Longoria Parker spoke about philanthropy, and the magazine introduced its new mentorship program with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.
Above, actresses Parker, left, Swank and Berry pose together at the breakfast. (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)
