Post by Administrator on May 17, 2004 11:15:05 GMT -5
Bill Murray, who won a Golden Globe earlier this year for his role in Lost in Translation, received a lifetime-achievement award at the Jacksonville Film Festival on Saturday night. Murray, 53, kissed the award -- a glass-and-wood turtle -- then made a face.
"It smells like the ocean," he said at the ceremony. "It's the only award I have that does."
The Golden Globe was the first major acting prize for Murray, who gained fame in the 1970s as a goofball on TV's Saturday Night Live and continued that shtick in movies such as Caddyshack and Meatballs.
Lost in Translation, about two lonely Americans who find friendship in a Tokyo hotel, earned Murray an Oscar nomination.
He told a packed auditorium at the Florida Theatre that his latest honour proves "that I'm not in it just for the awards."
"It's just an accident I'm receiving this," Murray said. "I happen to know Patrick Swayze left unexpectedly, and I happened to be here."
"It smells like the ocean," he said at the ceremony. "It's the only award I have that does."
The Golden Globe was the first major acting prize for Murray, who gained fame in the 1970s as a goofball on TV's Saturday Night Live and continued that shtick in movies such as Caddyshack and Meatballs.
Lost in Translation, about two lonely Americans who find friendship in a Tokyo hotel, earned Murray an Oscar nomination.
He told a packed auditorium at the Florida Theatre that his latest honour proves "that I'm not in it just for the awards."
"It's just an accident I'm receiving this," Murray said. "I happen to know Patrick Swayze left unexpectedly, and I happened to be here."