Eddie Murphy Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 Critics’ Choice Awards

Among the artist’s who will be achieving Grammy gold the night of Jan. 26, Iggy Pop will receive the high honor of lifetime achievement from the Recording Academy! The 71-year-old rocker, known as the “Godfather of Punk,” curated a storied career since he first started out in the 1970s. Before the “Real Wild Child” walks the Grammy Awards stage to accept his achievement, here are five things you need to know about him.

Stanley Nelson, whose films Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution chronicle the African American experience, will receive the 2020 outstanding achievement award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.Nelson will be in Toronto to take part in a keynote conversation and a partial retrospective of his films during Hot Docs' April 30 to May 10 run."His (Nelson's) contribution to documentary is unprecedented, with his powerful films

Photograph by Juergen Teller; Creative Partner to Juergen Teller: Dovile Drizyte; Styled by Sara Moonves. Hair by Stacey Morris at Criterion Group; Skin by Vera Steimberg at Criterion Group; Manicure by Michelle Saunders.

Oh, what a night! Robert De Niro walked away with a high honor on Sunday, January 19, as this year’s Lifetime Achievement recipient at the 2020 SAG Awards.

Yeah, we're talkin' to you.

From early in his career, writer-producer Ryan Murphy has always made it a point to use his platform to speak openly about pressing LGBTQ issues. Now, the Pose creator is being recognized for his contributions.

There is something sweet and surreal about seeing Eddie Murphy assume a more reverential role as of late. But that's what happens when an artist succeeds in show business for 40 years.

Twas the night before Oscar nominations and all through the ballroom, the Barker Hanger was buzzing as critics mixed and mingled with A-listers inside the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night. Big winners Life Achievement winner Eddie Murphy, #SeeHer honoree Kristen Bell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bong Joon Ho played to the audience in the room and at home with top-notch speeches but Variety was inside the ballroom bringing you everything you didn’t see on television.

In case you weren’t already aware, Eddie Murphy has 10 children between the ages of one and 30.

Eddie Murphy looked back at his nearly 40 years of being an actor while accepting the lifetime achievement award at the 2020 Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday night."Being able to make a living as an actor is a privilege and a blessing. And to make a living making people laugh, there's no higher — you're the luckiest person on Earth to be able to do that," Murphy said.

By Geoff Boucher

Eddie Murphy is going home a winner!

Eddie Murphy's groundbreaking and triumphant career received the recognition it has long deserved at this year's Critics' Choice Awards, where he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The 2020 Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday is set to be a star-studded event.

The worst thing you could do is not give the studio a lot of options,” says unit photographer Frank Masi, whose stills have helped show off more than 70 films, from 1995’s “Gordy” to Disney’s upcoming “Jungle Cruise.” Masi has shot photos of stars Will Smith, Bruce Willis, Will Ferrell, Cameron Diaz, Dwayne Johnson and Hugh Jackman, to name just a few, over a 25-year career.

For Stacey Morris, Carla Farmer and Vera Steimberg — the hair and makeup team behind “Dolemite Is My Name” — the biggest challenge was to create the likeness of the real-life characters being portrayed on-screen in the Netflix film.