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- January 11, 2023
Golden Globes 2023 recap: Big wins and more
The 80th Golden Globes were held Tuesday night in Beverly Hills, California.
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Murphy then spoke about how receiving the Carol Burnett Award has allowed him to \"reflect on what a lifetime of achievement really is.\" He said that the key to getting there is by \"being fearless.\"
Continuing to acknowledge figures whom he described as his \"heroes,\" Murphy addressed Porter's impact, describing him as \"one of the most iconic actors of his generation.\"
Murphy also praised Niecy Nash, who he said \"chose love, not fear\" when she married Jessica Betts. He said Nash was told \"she couldn't, shouldn't do that\" and that she \"might never work again, her community and her industry would abandon her.\"
He called actor Matt Bomer an \"action hero in life\" who has \"defied the ridiculous rules that have been in place for almost a century\" and said actor Jeremy Pope was told to \"deny who he was -- but Jeremy refused to hide.\" Murphy called Pope \"the future.\"
Murphy said he was dedicating his speech to the names he mentioned \"to make a point of hope and progress.\"
\"When I was a young person at home in the '70s watching 'The Carol Burnett Show,' I never ever saw a person like me getting an award -- or even being a character on a TV show,\" he said. \"It's hard being an LGBTQ kid in America, in fact, all over the world, then and now.\"
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He continued, \"You are often told you will never become anything, you have to hide your light to survive. But for those kids watching, tonight I offer up MJ, and Billy, and Niecy, and Matt, and Jeremy as examples of possibility. There is a way forward -- use them as your north stars.\"
Murphy is the fourth recipient of the HFPA's Carol Burnett Award. Previous recipients include Carol Burnett, Ellen DeGeneres and Norman Lear.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also addressed the audience at the awards show.
Actor Sean Penn introduced a video message from Zelenskyy.
\"The war in Ukraine is not over yet, but the tide is turning,\" Zelenskyy said. \"And it is already clear who will win.\"
Zelenskyy thanked \"the free people of the free world, those who united around the support of the free Ukrainian people.\" He also said \"there will be no third World War. It is not a trilogy.\"
Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
Penn visited Ukraine in November 2022 and presented Zelenskyy with one of his two Academy Awards statuettes, calling it a \"symbolic silly thing\" and telling the president to return it to him in Malibu after Ukraine wins against Russia.
Zelenskyy called the gesture \"a symbol of faith in the victor of our country\" and presented Penn with a special award called \"the Order of Merit of the III degree.\"
This isn't the first time Zelenskyy has addressed the audience of an awards show. In April 2022, just weeks after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Zelenskyy spoke about the war in a video message at the 2022 Grammys.
Eddie Murphy took the stage during the show to accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his outstanding contributions to entertainment.
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The six-time Golden Globe nominee, who is known for his roles in \"The Nutty Professor,\" \"Coming to America,\" \"Dreamgirls\" -- for which he won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a motion picture in 2007 -- and many others, thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and his family.
\"I've been in show business for 46 years and I've been in the movie business for 41 years,\" Murphy said. \"So this has been a long time in the making and it's greatly appreciated.\"
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