Eddie Murphy’s Oscar Tantrum Unconvincingly Explained
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February 28th, 2007 at 15:30 by Stuart Heritage
Globally-televised awards ceremonies like The Oscars require everyone involved to constantly be on their best behaviour throughout - unless you're Eddie Murphy, in which case you can wig out and go home the instant you don't win an award.
According to several reports, Eddie Murphy - who was hot favourite to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as a James Brown-alike in Dreamgirls - stormed out the Kodak Theatre and immediately went home without attending any post-Oscar parties as soon as Alan Arkin won the Oscar instead of him. But don't blow Eddie Murphy's girly Oscar night strop out of proportion, Eddie's slaves are saying - because Eddie Murphy would have lost his shit and bitterly flounced out of the Academy Awards even if he'd won the Oscar. Apparently.
Not such a long time ago, Dreamgirls was the film to beat when it came to the Oscars. We were told that Beyonce was going to win an Oscar, Jennifer Hudson was going to win an Oscar, Eddie Murphy was going to win an Oscar, that song everyone's sick of was going to win an Oscar and the whole thing was going to win so many Oscars that everyone else needn't bother turning up. But that didn't really happen - all through awards season Dreamgirls was continually cut out in favour of movies starring Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker.
This was reflected in the conspicuously Dreamgirls-light Oscar nominations, but Dreamgirls did have two tricks up its sleeve. One was Jennifer Hudson, an American Idol runner-up whose portrayal of a fat singer won her several Best Supporting Actress awards, and the other was Eddie Murphy. Everything seemed perfectly aligned for Eddie Murphy to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar - he'd already won a Golden Globe for it, James Brown died a few months ago meaning that he'd probably pick up a lot of tribute votes - but instead the Oscar went to Alan Arkin from Little Miss Sunshine.
All the other Oscar favourites like Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker and Martin Scorsese won awards on Sunday night, but not Eddie Murphy - who may have lost out thanks to the incredibly badly-timed release of his 'Eddie Murphy in a fatsuit as a lady' comedy Norbit. On hearing that he'd lost the Oscar, Eddie Murphy did the only thing he could and reportedly threw a tantrum and stormed out of the Oscars halfway through, shunning all post-Oscar parties and going home in a terrifying - not to mention embarrassing - rage. Oddly enough some people are saying that this means Eddie Murphy is a bit of a sore loser, but that's not the case says Eddie Murphy slave Arnold Robinson:
"Eddie had always planned on leaving after his category was announced to spend the rest of the evening with his family. He did the same thing following the Golden Globe Awards."
Of course! Why didn't we think of that? It's obvious - who doesn't love spoiling the atmosphere of the world's most-watched awards ceremony by getting their knickers in a twist and running away when they win? In fact, we're going to take a leaf out of Eddie Murphy's award ceremony handbook here - at the forthcoming Ask/Metro Brit Blog awards (ahemvoteahem), we promise to swear loudly and march out in a godawful tizzy regardless of if we win or not. And then we'll knock Scary Spice up and quickly leave her too, because from now on the Eddie Murphy way is the hecklerspray way.
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February 28th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
It’s hard to feel sorry for Eddie Murphy. Really, Dreamgirls shouldn’t have won any Oscars at all. Alan Arkin’s performance was touching and hilarious in equal measure - a real stand-out performance. Eddie Murphy, on the other hand, is the fool in a fatsuit and not a lot else
March 6th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Dummy Ro-Ler… he was up for Dream Girls not Norbit…. If you can show me where in Dream Girls that he wore a fat suit I’ll stop calling you dummy.
March 12th, 2007 at 11:22 am
I think that the people that voted for the Oscars made the right decision in not given the award to Eddie Murphy - because seriously, anyone that can make a film like Norbit needs a lobotomy.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
[...] Not exactly known for his gracious ways, Eddie is not only requesting a paternity test, but he also is reportedly demanding a recount of this year’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar votes. [...]
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Myyyy
are you idiots
the author of this article first
Don’t you have lives to attend to ? What does it bring you, judging people stupidly ?
Start by living in your own shoes
June 9th, 2007 at 7:12 am
[...] Certainly Murphy was amazing in Dreamgirls. He should have won the best supporting actor Oscar. [...]
June 11th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
The only thing worse than Eddie in Dreamgirl is Jamie Foxx. Murphy was void of any expression at all, and Foxx was just a gurning moron. Nobody in that movie deserved anything.