Overview
- Being Eddie is now streaming on Netflix, presenting Murphy's retrospective on his career and his experiences with awards.
- He says he rarely attends ceremonies and felt annoyed in 2007 because he dressed up and went to the Oscars only to leave empty-handed.
- Despite winning the Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award for Dreamgirls, he lost the supporting-actor Oscar to Alan Arkin.
- Murphy revisits his 1988 Oscars remarks about Hollywood racism and suggests the episode may have affected his standing with the Academy, a claim not independently verified in the coverage.
- In recent comments, he reiterates that accolades are not his motivation and jokes he might someday receive an honorary Oscar.