The accolades keep coming for America Ferrera. The Emmy-winning star of “Ugly Betty” is now the Hispanic Woman of the Year, the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard announced Thursday.

The publications will honor Ferrera and the 25 most powerful Hispanic women in film, television and music at their inaugural Hispanic Women in Entertainment breakfast at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Tuesday.

Ferrera “is a leader for all women, but especially those in the Hispanic community,” publisher John Kilcullen said in a statement.
He said the 23-year-old actress is “dedicated to advancing the position of Hispanics in television and film.”

“It’s an honor to be in such esteemed company,” Ferrera said in a statement. “And it’s a thrill to see talented women recognized for their work behind the camera.”

Ferrera has won Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards for her portrayal of Betty Suarez on the ABC show.

Gone but not forgotten by voters, “The Sopranos” claimed its final Emmy as best dramatic series. Winners in other top categories were scattered across the prime time landscape like the bodies of the show’s fallen characters across New Jersey.

A stunned James Spader felt like he just “stole a pile of money from the mob” in winning best drama series actor as a devilish lawyer on “Boston Legal” at Sunday night’s ceremony. And Sally Field was her flustered self as winner of best actress in a drama for her matriarchal role in “Brothers & Sisters.”

Spader rubbed out three-time winner James Gandolfini of “The Sopranos” and last year’s upset victor, Kiefer Sutherland of “24.”
Field, fondly remembered for her years-ago TV stints as “Gidget” and “The Flying Nun,” bumped off Edie Falco of “The Sopranos.”
“Surely this belongs to all the mothers of the world,” Field said in a rambling acceptance speech that wound up with a swear word that had to be bleeped by Fox censors.

Field’s speech recalled her much-parodied 1985 acceptance of the best-actress Oscar for “Places in the Heart,” in which she said the famous line: “I can’t deny the fact that you like me. Right now, you really like me. Presenter Ray Romano also got attention from the evening’s word police.

Fox blacked out the show for a few seconds when Romano used a strong word in a joke about his former “Everybody Loves Raymond” wife, Patricia Heaton, sleeping with her new “Back to You” co-star Kelsey Grammer.

Supporting dramatic actress winner Katherine Heigl of “Grey’s Anatomy” mouthed another expletive, which Fox unsuccessfully tried to evade by switching camera angles.

“30 Rock” took top comedy series honors for its behind-the-scenes look at the craziness of a late-night sketch show.
Tina Fey, the show’s star and creator, acknowledged the show’s low ratings in its freshman year by thanking its “dozens and dozens of viewers.”

Ricky Gervais of “Extras” beat out Steve Carell of “The Office” for lead comedy series actor. Gervais originated the buffoonish boss role that Carell fills on the American version of the British sitcom.

The biggest laugh of the night was earned by presenters Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, after they announced that Gervais won.

“Ricky Gervais could not be here tonight. Instead we’re going to give this to our friend, Steve Carell,” Stewart said. Carell bounded on stage, sharing a group hug with Stewart and Colbert.

America Ferrera, TV’s breakout star as the dumpy fashion magazine assistant on “Ugly Betty,” was the lone acting front-runner to win. She added an Emmy as leading comedic actress to her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild victories this year.

“This is such an amazing, wonderful achievement,” Ferrera said. “The award is to be able to get up and go to work tomorrow.”
Regarded as one of television’s best-ever series, “The Sopranos” aired its final show this past June, leaving many viewers grumbling about its enigmatic, cut-to-black ending.

Yet the show got some final respect Sunday night with two standing ovations — first, when the cast was introduced, and again when the series received the night’s top honor.

“In essence, this is a story about a gangster,” show creator David Chase said. “And gangsters are out there taking their kids to college, and taking their kids to school, and putting food on their table.

“And, hell, let’s face it, if the world and this nation was run by gangsters” — Chase paused and shrugged, as the audience laughed — “maybe it is.”

Rookie host Ryan Seacrest of “American Idol” was seen sparingly after opening the three-hour telecast. Instead, he turned the Shrine Auditorium’s in-the-round stage over to the veteran comedy chops of Romano, Ellen DeGeneres and Lewis Black.

One of the night’s other standing ovations went to former vice president Al Gore, whose Current TV channel, which features viewer-created videos, was honored for achievement in interactive television.

“We are trying to open up the television medium so that viewers can help to make television, and join the conversation of democracy, and reclaim American democracy by talking about the choices we have to make,” said Gore, whose global-warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” received an Oscar earlier this year.

Queen Latifah helped salute the groundbreaking miniseries “Roots” on its 30th anniversary. The saga about a black American family’s history “brought great honor to the art form that we celebrate,” she said.

“Let us all work to ensure that we all honor the legacy of `Roots’ not just tonight but in everything we do,” added “Roots” star John Amos, reunited onstage with his castmates to yet another standing ovation.

Emmy Awards winners in details

Winners on Sunday’s 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:

Drama Series: “The Sopranos,” HBO.
Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” NBC.
Miniseries: “Broken Trail,” AMC.
Variety, Music or Comedy Series: “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” Comedy Central.
Variety, Music or Comedy Special: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” NBC.
Made-for-TV Movie: “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” HBO.
Reality-Competition Program: “The Amazing Race,” CBS.
Creative Achievement in Interactive TV: Current.
Actor, Drama Series: James Spader, “Boston Legal,” ABC.
Actor, Comedy Series: Ricky Gervais, “Extras,” HBO.
Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Robert Duvall, “Broken Trail,” AMC.
Actress, Drama Series: Sally Field, “Brothers & Sisters,” ABC.
Actress, Comedy Series: America Ferrera, “Ugly Betty,” ABC.
Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Helen Mirren, “Prime Suspect: The Final Act (Masterpiece Theatre),” PBS.
Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Terry O’Quinn, “Lost,” ABC.
Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Jeremy Piven, “Entourage,” HBO.
Supporting Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Thomas Haden Church, “Broken Trail,” AMC.
Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Katherine Heigl, “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC.
Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Jaime Pressly, “My Name Is Earl,” NBC.
Supporting Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Judy Davis, “The Starter Wife,” USA.
Individual Performance, Variety or Music Program: Tony Bennett, “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” NBC.
Directing, Drama Series: “The Sopranos: Kennedy and Heidi,” HBO.
Directing, Comedy Series: “Ugly Betty: Pilot,” ABC.
Directing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: “Prime Suspect: The Final Act (Masterpiece Theatre),” PBS.
Directing, Variety, Music or Comedy Program: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” NBC.
Writing for a Drama Series: “The Sopranos: Made in America,” HBO.
Writing, Comedy Series: “The Office: Gay Witch Hunt,” NBC.
Writing, Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: “Prime Suspect: The Final Act,” PBS.
Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” NBC.

The policy was taken out by Aquafresh White Trays, a teeth whitening product manufacturer which is working with the actress for a US charity that campaigns for free dental campaign for jobless women.

Ferrera, 23, plays Betty Suarez, an ugly duckling with train-track braces on her teeth and an idiosyncratic dress sense, who works at a snobby New York fashion magazine.

Lloyds has a record of providing unusual cover for celebrities. In the past, it has insured Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards’ fingers and screen siren Marlene Dietrich’s legs.

Bette Davis is reputed to have once sought cover against her waistline expanding and an underwriter was once approached to insure an unnamed celebritys chest hair, it added.