Gary Oldman placed his handprints and footprints in cement in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre Friday, honoring him for a career that has brought him three best actor Oscar nominations.

“I am all too aware of the hundreds of talented artists that have preceded me and their contribution to the world of cinema,” Oldman told the crowd. “Roughly 200 celebrities have had their hands and their feet and their signatures imprinted in the concrete forecourt of this beautiful picture palace since its first ceremony in 1927.

“Never in my wildest dreams as a young boy growing up in south London could I have imagined standing here one day as an honoree.”

Born on March 21, 1958, in London, Oldman began his career in 1979 in a production of the 1927 farce “Thark” at the York Theatre Royal in Y

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