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Denzel Washington scores the top position as America's Favorite Movie Star for the second year in a row on The Harris Poll's annual Favorite Movie Stars list.

• Jan 16, 2008

AceShowbiz - The Harris Poll's annual lists of America's Favorite Movie Stars and America's Favorite TV Personalities are out and Denzel Washington and Ellen DeGeneres are the two big winners.

Is a two-time Academy Award- winning actor, Denzel is the first pick on the Favorite Movie Stars list, making it his second year in a row to score the first spot on the poll. As of Ellen, her being picked as the number one Favorite TV Personality marks her first time ever to dethrone the chat-show icon Oprah Winfrey who always tops the popularity chart in the past years.

Below is the recap of Harris' 2008 Favorite TV Personalities and Movie Stars polls, which was conducted between December 4 to December 12 and based on a sample of 1,114 U.S. adults:

America's Favorite Movie Stars

1. Denzel Washington
2. Tom Hanks
3. Johnny Depp
4. Julia Roberts
5. Will Smith
6. John Wayne
7. (tie) Matt Damon
8. (tie) Sean Connery
9. Sandra Bullock
10. Bruce Willis

1. Ellen DeGeneres
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. Jay Leno
4. Hugh Laurie
5. Jon Stewart
6. (tie) David Letterman
7. (tie) Stephen Colbert
8. Bill O'Reilly
9. (tie) Ray Romano
10. (tie) Homer Simpson