Jennifer Aniston Accepts the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at THR's Power 100 Women Event

Jennifer Aniston poses with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award during The Hollywood Reporter 2021 Power 100 Women in Entertainment event, presented by Lifetime, held at the Fairmont Century Plaza on Wednesday (December 8) in Los Angeles.

The Friends star called the award the “honor of the highest magnitude” in her speech to the star-studded crowd.

Click inside to read what she shared…

“If I went back in time to my 19-year-old self, waitressing tables in New York and auditioning for every off, off, off, off, not-even-close-to-Broadway show and someone came up to me and said, ‘One day, you’ll be receiving The Sherry Lansing Leadership Award,’ I would’ve looked at them like they were crazy and said, ‘Who’s Sherry Lansing?’” she said.

“Sherry Lansing, people like to throw around the word ‘trailblazer,’ but in your case, you have blazed a trail for the rest of us to follow,” she continued. “The first woman to run a studio, with strings and strings of box office hits and Academy Award-winning films to your name. You truly paved the way for us women to have the voices and the platforms that we have today. And somehow, you remained one of the kindest and most generous people.”