Eddie Murphy was robbed
February 26, 2007At last night’s Academy Awards, Eddie Murphy got robbed. He should have won Best Supporting Actor for Dreamgirls, instead Alan Arkin won. Murphy probably has nobody to blame but himself though for the loss.
See the problem is Murphy released his dismal Norbit movie a few short weeks prior to the Oscars. Meaning anybody who was mailing their ballots in late had a chance to reconsider their vote for Murphy. If I were one of the voters I probably would have thought twice as well. I mean how can you give the Oscar to somebody who just released such a horribly-received movie?
That’s too bad because I thought his performance in Dreamgirls was so incredible. He handled the spectrum from the early exuberance his character felt at the beginning to the utter drug-fueled despair at the end.