PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) – Angelina Jolie has received a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the Southeast Asian country.

Jolie can use the passport when she visits the native land of her 4-year-old son Maddox, Stephan Bognar, executive director of the Maddox Jolie project, said Tuesday.

San Francisco-based WildAid manages the project, which promotes wildlife conservation and community development in a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia.

Bognar said Jolie was “ecstatic and thrilled” last month when he handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal decree giving her Cambodian citizenship.

“Maddox was there and she showed him” the passport, he said.

The 30-year-old actress adopted Maddox from Cambodia in 2002. She has a 9-month-old daughter, Zahara, who was adopted from Ethiopia earlier this year.

Oprah reaps Founders Award

NEW YORK (AP) – Oprah Winfrey has received the Founders Award for her international broadcast career and philanthropic initiatives from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presented the award to Winfrey, host of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” during Monday night’s International Emmy Awards gala.

“Her accomplishments as a television pioneer, actress, film producer, editorial director and philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected and admired public figures today,” the Academy said of the talk-show host in a statement on its Web site.

Winfrey, 51, recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of her syndicated show.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was founded in 1969 to recognize excellence in television programming produced outside the United States. It has 500 members from nearly 70 countries and over 350 companies.

Lionel: Nicole ‘under stress’

NEW YORK (AP) – Lionel Richie says the stress of his daughter’s expanding career is most likely the reason for her shrinking dress size.

“I know what’s happening with her right now, she’s a nervous wreck,” Richie says of Nicole, who was heavier when she co-starred with Paris Hilton on “The Simple Life.”

“She’s like her father, you can either blow up or you can shrink away,” the R&B crooner told “Access Hollywood” in an interview that aired Monday night. “And right now, she’s just feeling a little bit of the pressures of her new business. So in this case … she will be all right.”

“Dad is on the case,” he said.

The 24-year-old Richie has said she was always really thin, but went through a heavier stage during the first season of “The Simple Life.”

In October, Fox announced that feuding ex-friends Richie and Hilton would not return for a fourth season. The network said its midseason schedule didn’t have a time slot for the reality series.

Richie is engaged to Adam Goldstein, a professional club disc jockey who goes by DJ AM.

Her new novel, “The Truth About Diamonds,” is described by ReganBooks as a “no-holds-barred look at Hollywood’s new elite, behind the velvet ropes, inside star-studded premieres and parties.”