Gellar & Wood Honored as Movie 'Vets'

What's Tinseltown coming to when Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood are honored as veterans?

The pair won the "Hottest, Coolest Young Veteran Awards" at Sunday's Movieline Young Hollywood Awards.

"I guess now that I'm a veteran I'm too old to play opposite Sean Connery , so what am I going to do next?" joked Gellar, 25. Wood, 21, said, "The hottest and the coolest? I didn't even know I was cool. Thank you, Movieline ."

A true veteran, Kevin Spacey , took home the "role model" award. "If you have been successful in whatever profession, then it is your obligation to recognize that your only responsibility is to send the elevator back down," said Spacey, who brought his mother.

If there was an award for most bizarre acceptance speech, it would have gone to Breakthrough Performance winner Shannyn Sossamon (40 Days and 40 Nights ), who stood speechless at the microphone for several seconds before saying, "Hi. Ummm. I don't like microphones. I feel like they make my voice sound really ugly. It's like a really microphony, weird, psychological (expletive)."

A tense moment occurred when Thora Birch , accepting an award for her charitable work, asked the crowd, "Bored yet?" She then proceeded to speak in a monotone. Afterward, her presenter, Billy Zane, stepped to the microphone and said sarcastically, "The beautiful and charming Thora Birch."

Others honored: Christina Applegate for her work with breast cancer and PETA; Mandy Moore and Shane West (superstars of tomorrow); Colin Hanks, Mila Kunis, Evan Rachel Wood and Gregory Smith (ones to watch); Brittany Murphy and Jason Behr (standout performance); Selma Blair (next generation); Jake Gyllenhaal (breakthrough performance); and Legally Blonde director Robert Luketic (hottest young filmmaker). Afterward, the young celebs partied on the rooftop at a Sony PlayStation 2 bash. Murphy tore up the dance floor while Hanks and Ali Landry battled it out on video games.