At the yearly grant show, Murphy—the creator down deed shows such arsenic Glee and American Horror History—was honoredwith the Carol Burnett Award for his contributions to tv and successful designation of his riveting storytelling.
He began by asking for a lasting ovation for Rodriguez, who became the archetypal trans histrion to triumph a Golden Globe successful 2022, though the historical infinitesimal was not televised. "Let's springiness her the ovation she deserves," helium told the assemblage to applause.
Murphy next shouted retired Porter, "one of the astir iconic actors of his generation."
"Billy Porter has changed our perceptions by changing fashion. He did this," Murphy said, adding that the Pose prima "whipped up this fuchsia replica" of his Oscars gown for the occasion.
As for Nash-Betts, helium praised her coming retired travel and for uncovering her woman Jessica Betts. "Niecy Nash chose emotion not fear," helium said. And now, "she's had the biggest twelvemonth of her full career."
He went connected to bespeak connected his ain experience. "When I was a young idiosyncratic astatine location successful the 70s," Murphy recalled, "I ne'er ever saw a idiosyncratic similar maine getting an award... It's hard being an LGBTQ kid successful America."
For the kids watching tonight, helium said, "there is simply a mode forward," advising them to use his five friends arsenic their "North stars."
"Ryan Murphy not lone continues to enthrall audiences with his enactment connected immoderate of the astir thrilling and breathtaking bid of the period but besides continues to animate each with his enactment disconnected the screen," Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Helen Hoehne antecedently said. "His enactment and storytelling quality passim antithetic movie and tv genres person led to highly acclaimed achievements and awards."
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At the Jan. 10 show, Murphy was besides nominated for Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series oregon Motion Picture Made for Television for his thriller Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Going into the night, Murphy had 1 triumph for The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story and 4 different nominations. This year, helium was up against Black Bird, Pam and Tommy, The Dropout and The White Lotus: Sicily.
Though he's received unthinkable designation for his work, getting present was not casual feat.
"Those aboriginal years were very, very, precise hard," helium told the New York Times successful October, "because I would privation to constitute cheery characters oregon women, different marginalized groups, and consecutive men wearing Dockers successful powerfulness would say, ‘No, radical don't privation to spot that.'"
As Murphy has persisted connected with creating greater practice successful television, his extremity has been to "take the radical that successful different person's enactment would person been the sidekicks, the misfits, the marginalized radical you laughter at, and to halfway the communicative astir them."
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