The Screen Actors’ Guild will honour Morgan Freeman with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Variety reports that Freeman will be the 54th recipient of the award, for keeping up the “finest ideals of the acting profession.”
SAG-AFTRA’s president, Gabrielle Carteris said, “I am thrilled to announce Morgan Freeman as this year’s recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award. Some actors spend their entire careers waiting for the perfect role. Morgan showed us that true perfection is what a performer brings to the part. He is innovative, fearless and completely unbound by expectations. As a chauffeur, convicted murderer, boxing gym attendant, pimp or president, Morgan fully realized every character, baring their souls and showcasing their humanity. It has been a privilege to see his genius at work.”
Freeman will be given the award at the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, to be held on January 21 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Morgan Freeman had earlier won a SAG award for Million Dollar Baby, for which he also won an Academy Award. He got Oscar nominations for his roles in Shawshank Redemption, Driving Miss Daisy and Invictus.
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Freeman has acted in over 100 films, starting out with the children’s TV show The Electric Company, to films such as The Dark Knight, Bruce Almighty, Night at the Museum, among others. He is also the presenter of Nattional Geography documentary series, The Story of God, with Morgan Freeman.
The SAG also noted that Freeman co-founded the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop, in 1973, to support and nurture promising African-American playwrights, and support Artists for a New South Africa and the Campaign for Female Education.
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