Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson was awarded the Best Actress in a Supporting Role plum at the 2007 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, bringing the total number of awards to more than 20! Hudson adds this prestigious award to her Golden Globe and her Screen Actors Guild award.

Hudson has won Best Supporting Actress nods from the Satellite Awards; New York Film Critics Circle; New York Film Critics Circle Online (tied with Catherine O’Hara); the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards; the Washington, DC Film Critics Association; the African-American Film Critics Association; the Las Vegas Film Critics Association; the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Awards; the Broadcast Film Critics Awards; and the Ohio Film Critics Awards.

Hudson, an unabashed Christian, who has been vocal in her thanksgiving to Jesus Christ and God for bringing her to where she is today, has also been acknowledged as Female Star of Tomorrow by Sho West, Best Female Breakthrough Performance from the National Board of Review (tied with Babel’s Rinko Kikuchi); the Breakthrough Performer award from the New York Film Critics Circle Online; the Breakthrough of the Year from the Hollywood Life Awards; the Breakthrough Performance Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival; the Pauline Kael Breakout Award from the Florida Film Critics Circle; the Breakout Performance Award from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle; and the Breakout Artist award from the Austin Film Critics Association.

She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards and the National Society of Film Critics awards, but did not win. She also has standing nominations at the Academy Awards and the the NAACP Image Awards.

Looking for Jennifer Hudson’s Oscar acceptance speech? Here it is.

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