On Dec.4, The Hollywood Reporter's 18th annual Women in Entertainment will present Oscar winner Halle Berry with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award.

Presented by Lifetime, the presentation will take place at a breakfast conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel in which Hilary Swank and Eva Longoria Parker also will participate.

The event is held in conjunction with the publication of THR's "Power 100: Women in Entertainment" special issue, which highlights the top 100 women in the motion picture and television industries.

Halle BerryBerry joins past recipients Barbara Walters, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and Glenn Close in receiving the Lansing award. The 'Monster's Ball' actress will be honored for her trailblazing within the industry and for her generosity in giving back to the community at large.

"The complex role that Halle Berry plays in life as a successful, versatile entertainment professional who is committed to furthering the well-being of others, especially minorities, is as inspiring as are her film roles," Hollywood Reporter editor Elizabeth Guider said. "The recognition is also wonderfully fitting in a year in which diversity has been embraced and rewarded at the highest levels of our government and culture."

Lansing is former CEO of Paramount Pictures, and when president of production at 20th Century Fox was the first woman to head a Hollywood studio. In 1996 she became the first woman named Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of the Motion Picture Pioneers, and the first woman studio head to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.