AFI Life Achievement Award
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Colleagues in the film industry pay tribute to actor and comedian Eddie Murphy, during AFI’s Life Achievement Award ceremony. Awarded since 1973, previous honorees include Denzel Washington, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Fred Astaire, and Orson Welles.
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From his Saturday Night Live breakthrough to movie stardom, Eddie Murphy has always left them laughing. As one of the few comedians and only the fourth person of color to receive the prestigious American Film Institute accolade in its half-century, Murphy forgoes humor for emotion when accepting the honor from Spike Lee. “I’m going to get backstage and cry,” he says. An understandable response when paid tribute by the likes of contemporaries Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Arsenio Hall, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence, Kenan Thompson, Mike Myers (in a Shrek mask), Robert Townsend, Tracy Morgan, Jennifer Hudson (performing from Dreamgirls), and special surprise guest Stevie Wonder, who Murphy famously portrayed in his SNL days. The special was filmed in April at L.A.’s Dolby Theatre.
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