LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20, 2000 — Break out the milk and cookies. Young Hollywood got to stay out late on a school night and celebrate the 5th Annual Hollywood Reporter YoungStar Awards. Haley Joel Osment (“The Sixth Sense”), Natalie Portman (“Where the Heart Is”) and Thora Birch received some of the evening’s highest honors, handed out at CBS Television City in Los Angeles.
“It’s fun to be at an awards show with actors my age. — I don’t film a movie for an award, but it’s a great honor whenever I get one,” said Osment.
Even teen diva Christina Aguilera was thrown in the mix, receiving the YoungStar Starlight Award for outstanding humanitarian contribution.
The awards honor young artists ages 6 to 18. Nominees were selected by members of the Casting Society of America from a list of more than 400 submissions. Winners were determined by a poll of 3,500 entertainment industry insiders who read The Hollywood Reporter.
The evening featured special performances by No Authority, Rachael Lampa, Youth Asylum and Alecia Elliot. Celebrity presenters included Amanda Bynes (“The Amanda Show”), Jane Kaczmarek and Bryan Cranston (“Malcolm in the Middle”) and Michelle Trachtenberg. The YoungStar awards, hosted by Mo’Nique (‘The Parkers”), also benefited the Starlight Children Foundation.
