Eddie Murphy to get Critics' Choice Lifetime Achievement award

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.

He’s making waffles — and winning awards! Eddie Murphy took home the 2020 Critics Choice Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award and reflected on his three decades in the industry.

Joaquin Phoenix got sentimental after he won the 2020 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actor for his acclaimed performance in  during Sunday’s ceremony hosted by Taye Diggs.

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.

Eddie Murphy is set to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.