Eddie Murphy is being celebrated with a life achievement award from the American Movie Institute, AFI’s board of trustees stated Friday. The award can be handed out at a gala tribute in Los Angeles, on the Dolby Theatre, on April 18.
“Eddie Murphy is an American icon,” stated Kathleen Kennedy, who chairs the institute’s board of trustees. “A trailblazing power within the artwork types of movie, tv and stand-up comedy, his versatility is aware of no bounds.”
Murphy, 64, has been a power in leisure for practically 50 years, as a teenage stand-up phenomenon, on tv as part of the “Saturday Evening Stay” solid, and in movie the place he’s dominated the field workplace in a number of many years, with hits like “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Coming to America,” “The Nutty Professor” and the “Shrek” motion pictures. In 2007, he was nominated for a greatest supporting actor Oscar for “Dreamgirls,” which had already earned him a Display Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe, however he didn’t win the Academy Award.
In a brand new documentary about his life and profession, “Being Eddie,” which is at the moment streaming on Netflix, Murphy mirrored that he was extra aggravated about having to placed on a tux and go to the occasion than he was about shedding.
“It’s all the time fantastic to win stuff, but when I don’t win, I don’t give a ,” he stated. “I’m nonetheless Eddie within the morning.”
In 2023, Murphy acquired the Cecil B. DeMille Award on the Golden Globes, the place he stored his remarks to a speedy two minutes. He informed The Related Press in 2021 that he has a special perspective on issues than he did through the top of his fame.
“You are taking all the things without any consideration whenever you’re younger, how profitable I used to be,” Murphy stated. “Now I take nothing without any consideration and admire all the things.”
AFI’s gala tributes are sometimes starry affairs. Final 12 months at Francis Ford Coppola’s dinner, Steven Spielberg, Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford have been amongst those that turned out to toast Coppola.
Murphy is the 51st recipient of the AFI life achievement award, which was first handed out in 1973 to John Ford. Different latest honorees embrace Nicole Kidman, Julie Andrews and Denzel Washington.
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