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Oprah Winfrey voted world's highest paid celebrity

LOS ANGELES: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has been voted the world's highest paid celebrity after banking $165 million in the past year. She has left behind directors Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg in a survey by Forbes magazine. The news comes just days after she was listed as the 11th most powerful woman in the world in another survey by the same publication. Winfrey's annual earnings from May 2011 to May 2012 edged out filmmaker Bay, who scored second place with $160 million. Spielberg was at third with $130 million, while Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer was at fourth slot with $115 million and rap mogul Dr. Dre rounded up the top five with an earning of $110 million. Other big earners included director Tyler Perry and reality TV guru Simon Cowell, while the only other woman in the top 20 was Britney Spears, placed at 20th slot. Political spoof "The Campaign," starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, remained in fourth place, with box office receipts of $7.5 million. "The Dark Knight Rises," the latest Batman film, climbed back up to fifth place, earning $7.2 million. The final installment in the trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan has so far raked in more than $422 million. Quirky fantasy-comedy "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" climbed to sixth place a week after its debut, bringing in $7.1 million. "2016: Obama's America," a documentary by conservative writer and commentator Dinesh D'Souza, shot to seventh place from a distant 13th last week, bringing in $6.5 million. "Premium Rush," an action film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger being pursued by a corrupt cop, debuted in eighth at just over $6 million. Rounding out the top 10 were Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones's romantic comedy "Hope Springs," with $5.7 million in ticket sales, and action chase film "Hit and Run," which made $4.5 million in its opening weekend.