Hollywood’s Most Elite Honored For Noble Work with Charity – First Time Event Sunday

Noble Awards Announces Five New Nominees – Eva Longoria and Morgan Freeman confirmed as attending star-studded event

Eva Longoria is receiving a
Noble Award for her work
with Padres Contra El Cancer.

Eva Longoria Parker (Padres Contra El Cancer)  is among Celebs who will receive awards on behalf of the charities being honored include Laila Ali (Women’s Sports Foundation), Bush (Lollipop Theater
Network), Kenny
Edmonds
(Stand Up to Cancer),
Teri Hatcher (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles), Norman Lear (Playing for Change), Joel Madden (The Art of Elysium),
Annalynne McCord
(The Blind Project),
Access Hollywood’s
Nancy O’Dell (Best Buddies) and Brett Ratner (DoSomething.org).

The five new award honorees released today for the inaugural Noble Awards this Sunday (10-18-09), at theBeverly Hilton Hotel include: The Blind Project, The Lollipop Theater Network, Padres Contra El Cancer and Playing for Change. They’ll be honored along with six other charities announced earlier.

Additionally, Academy Award-winning Actor, Morgan Freeman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his involvement in more than dozen charies.

The two-hour event, hosted byAccess Hollywood’s very own Billy Bush, will honor up to a dozen charities and celebrities who actively support them annually, boosting awareness of these organizations and the work they do.During the ceremony, each will be presented with an award sculpture, designed by Antonio Banderas, with personal touches added by children who participated in The Art of Elysium workshop at the Shriner’s Hospital for Children. Brian McKnight and Julio Iglesias, Jr., along with Emily Bear and Timothy Mitchum will provide live musical performances throughout the evening. “We are delighted to present these eleven distinguished charities and their celebrity supporters with the inaugural Noble Award,” said TV Celebrity Anchor Janeen Mansour, creator and executive producer of the Noble Awards.“With the presentation of the Noble Awards, our goal is to turn the spotlight back onto these celebrities and charities to provide recognition, to educate, to inspire, and to encourage even more support from theHollywood community and the public at large,” explained Mansour. Morgan Freeman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his tireless work and dedication to over a dozen non-profits.

SPONSORS:Official partners for the 2009 Noble Awards include 7-Eleven which will launch their Cup with a Cause program at the event featuring celebrity designed coffee cups at 7-Eleven retail locations nationwide. Rumblefish Jewelry will design a jewelry line based on The Noble Awards and Be a Noble, where a percentage of sales will be donated to Noble charities.Look to the Stars which will work year round with the Noble Awards to promote philanthropy inHollywood.

Additional partners include: EIF/iParticipate, The Hollywood Reporter, Audi, Participant Media and Takepart.com, One Hope Wine, The Beverly Hilton, Mobile Cause, Rosenthal and GoodSearch. The film industry has the Oscars, television has the Emmys and the music industry has the Grammy Awards. Now, the charity community and its most dedicatedHollywoodsupporters have The Noble Awards. More information is at www.thenobleawards.org.

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