Critically acclaimed actress Julia Roberts was surrounded by Hollywood’s greatest Friday as she accepted the 22nd Annual American Cinematheque Award at a benefit dinner in Beverly Hills.

The 39-year-old mother of three and Academy Award winning actress must have felt the love that came with her statuette as people she has worked with in her nearly 20 years of movie-making activity took the podium and praised her.

Actor Tom Hanks, who stars with Julia in the upcoming “Charlie Wilson's War,” was effusive: “Everybody loves Julia Roberts. Everybody, everybody, everybody,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, as he explained how working with the actress makes one a member of Q.U.A.K.E.

Q is for “Question,” since everybody always asks what it is like to work with Julia Roberts, Hanks said; U is for being “upstaged,” as everyone experiences when working with Julia.

“When you share the screen (with her), you might as well be a waffle iron in a tree,” Hollywood Reporter quoted Hanks as saying. “No one is ever looking at you.”

A is for “Asterisk,” the actor continued, which will follow you forever for having worked with her; K is for “Knowledge,” knowing that all of the afore-mentioned are true; and finally, E is for “Everybody.”

“Everybody loves Julia Roberts. Absolutely everybody,” Hanks concluded.

Julia Roberts received an Academy Award for best actress in 2000 for her portrayal of the compassionate, gutsy Erin Brokovich in Steven Soderbergh’s “Erin Brokovich.”

Julia’s co-star in “The Pelican Brief,” Denzel Washington, handed her the prestigious American Cinematheque Award. The actress said she was honored, but most proud for being a wife and a mother.

“I really am just a girl from a little town in Georgia, who had this giant, absurd dream,” she said, adding: “More than anything, I am just the most proud wife and mother of the three most amazing children and that is all I could ever ask for. And the widening of my life and my hips is really the true gift of my husband, Danny (Moder), who I would just be so lonely without.”

Julia Roberts married cameraman Danny Moder in 2002. They have three children, twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and little Henry, born this June.

Julia started her career in the late 1980s and is well known for films such as “Steel Magnolias,” “Mystic Pizza,” “Pretty Woman” and “Sleeping with the Enemy,” all created within her first decade of activity.

Other recent films have also been successful, such as “My Best Friend's Wedding,” “Notting Hill,” “Ocean's Eleven,” “Closer.”

Julia’s films have been rare and far in between in recent years, as she opted to focus on family life.

Among those speaking Friday were director Garry Marshall (“Pretty Woman”), Sally Field (co-star in “Steel Magnolias”), Bruce Willis, Marcia Gay Harden, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Portman, Dermot Mulroney and Mike Nichols.

Richard Gere, David Letterman, George Clooney and Brad Pitt provided video tributes.

Among previous actors and filmmaker to receive the American Cinematheque Award are Jodie Foster, Al Pacino, Sean Connery, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. AMC will air the Julia Roberts American Cinematheque Tribute on December 5.