Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson was the star of the 2007 Lupus Foundation of America's (LFA) 4th Annual Awards Gala held in Washington, D.C. last night. The actress/singer was on hand to perform three songs for the event in which actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Theo Huxtable from "The Cosby Show") served as Master of Ceremonies.

Honorees for this years event were U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, (D-IL), the Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Foundation, Lisa Price, founder of the Carol's Daughter Cosmetics, and H. Thomas Watkins, President & CEO of Human Genome Sciences on behalf of LFA for their efforts to bring national attention and resources to the fight against lupus.

(WENN)

More photos from the event are after the jump.

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