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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Two-time Academy Award-winner Ben Affleck is to receive the third annual People's Choice Award for Favorite Humanitarian Wednesday night. The People's Choice Awards ceremony is to take place at the Nokia Theater L.A. Live and will air on CBS. Mom co-stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney are to serve as hosts of the event.
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"We are so pleased to honor Ben with the 2015 People's Choice Humanitarian Award," executive producer Mark Burnett said in a statement Tuesday. "This award has become an important part of our show. It highlights a different side of a celebrity and helps bring awareness to a cause that our audience can support."
The Gone Girl star and Argo director was chosen as this year's recipient in recognition of his work with Eastern Congo Initiative, a grant-making and advocacy-based organization he founded in 2010.
