At the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala on April 18, 2026, in Hollywood, a lineup of presenters that included Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence, Spike Lee and Mike Myers took turns telling the room what Eddie Murphy had meant to them. The American Film Institute had given him its 51st Life Achievement Award, the most distinguished honor in American cinema. Murphy sat in the audience listening to testimony from the peers who had studied …
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