Hugh
Jackman with his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Photo: Getty Images
The Sydney Morning Herald reports
There's a good chance Hollywood will soon be renamed Hughwood.
Hugh Jackman, on the same day he was nominated for a Golden Globe
for his tour de force performance in Les
Miserables, also cemented his place in motion picture history with
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A day earlier, Jackman was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild
Award for Les Miserables
and earlier in the week the 44-year-old Sydney-born actor was feted at a
special tribute in New York by a long line of A-Listers.
In a couple of weeks Jackman, a Tony Award-winner, former
titleholder of Sexiest Man Alive and host of a recent Academy Awards, will
almost certainly be honoured with his first Oscar nomination for Les Miserables and is a
great chance of going on to win the gold statuette.
"I'm a very lucky man," Jackman said, smiling as he
looked down at his star on Hollywood Boulevard.
"It's been a huge day."
Some celebrities get their stars in dodgy parts of the Hollywood
Boulevard strip, but Jackman, the new king of Hollywood, had his star cemented
on prime real estate outside the new Madame Tussaud's wax museum, located
alongside Grauman's Chinese Theatre and a few steps from the theatre where the
Oscars ceremony is held each year.
It is expected Les
Miserables will be nominated for an Oscar for best picture and many
other categories, including Jackman for best actor, Anne Hathaway for
supporting actress and Tom Hooper for direction.
Jackman will pretty much have to walk over his star to enter the
Academy Awards ceremony.
"I'm excited," said Jackman, whose fan base stretches
from teenagers cheering for his X-Men
character Wolverine to theatre lovers.
"The star is right here outside where I got to host the
Oscars."
Jackman's wife Deborra-Lee Furness and his Les Miserables co-stars
Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried were in the audience to watch Jackman receive his
star.
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