Overview
- The clarification comes in a new Entertainment Weekly interview tied to his Netflix documentary Being Eddie.
- Murphy says he departed after Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor, praising Arkin’s performance and recalling he predicted its awards impact after an early screening.
- He rejects reports that he stormed out, saying he wanted to skip an evening of condolences rather than leave in anger.
- He describes Oscar outcomes as shaped by intangibles such as campaigning, past work and industry relationships rather than any fixed formula.
- In the documentary he calls losing a “mindf—” given the effort of attending, and he had already left before Jennifer Hudson’s win and the Dreamgirls performances.