Whitaker's place on Walk of Fame

Just months after scooping his first Oscar, Forest Whitaker has been rewarded with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.The actor's stellar plaque is directly in front of the Kodak Theatre where he won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.Whitaker said: "All I can think is who knows maybe there is going to be a little kid either where I come from or from abroad or I don't know."He looks down at the stars like I did at the Walk of Fame and he feels the magic and he dreams... that maybe those dreams are possible because [of] this being here under the Kodak theatre sign."Friends of the actor who attended the ceremony included Angela Bassett who he directed in Waiting to Exhale, and his Phone Booth co-star Kiefer Sutherland."Forest has a lot more dignity as a actor and as a person really then anyone else that I know," said Sutherland after the ceremony.The 24 star continued: "I am in awe not only of his talent again what I talked about today that everything comes from his heart and his heart is in a really good place."2007 is shaping up to be a year to remember for Whitaker - in addition to the Oscar, the star also received the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards and has many high-profile films in the pipeline.The actor has just finished work on a movie entitled Winged Creatures in which fellow Oscar-winner, Jennifer Hudson, plays Whitaker's daughter.Dakota Fanning, Kate Beckinsale, and Guy Pearce also appear in the film that has no music and is already being billed as a very powerful movie.© Independent Television News Limited 2007. All rights reserved.

ITN | April 17, 2007

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