Morgan Freeman Career Celebration
"It is easy to accept but it is very difficult to believe," said Freeman, who became the 39th person who received the prestigious award from the AFI's
United States veteran actor an Oscar award winning, Morgan Freeman, received a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute (AFI) in an event attended by many famous movie stars in Los Angeles.Clint Eastwood and veteran British actress Helen Mirren is among a number of filmmakers who give honors to the 74-year-old actor in a ceremony held in the Sony Studios building in Culver City, recently.
Freeman's career celebration held for three and a half hours, featuring various clips from Freeman successful films. Among these are the Glory, Driving Miss Daisy and Million Dollar Baby. Actors and actresses who played the movie with Freeman turns giving speeches contain praise and joke about Freeman.
Clint Eastwood called him "one of the easiest as a friend".
"In a world filled with stones sirkon, you are the original diamond," said the Pulp Fiction actor Samuel L Jackson, who is close to Freeman and had been Freeman substitute player in a theater performance in New York.
Actor Forest Whitaker, who played Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland referred to it as "an adviser, a lantern, a place to complain, protector and a friend".
Another veteran black actor, Sidney Poitier and companion actor Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption movie, Tim Robbins, also gives praise.
The other filmmakers who have received similar awards from the AFI include Poitier, Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, and director Steven Spielberg.
