Morgan Freeman paid tribute with a version of Nicole Kidman’s AMC ads as she received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nicole Kidman wasn’t going to receive the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award without there being some reference to her ubiquitous AMC commercials that run before every AMC Screening, and as it turned out, it was fellow Oscar winner Morgan Freeman who recreated one of those ads to honor her.
As the ceremony began at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Kidman and the rest of the attendees were treated to the “Shawshank Redemption” star tweaking the lines heard by millions of moviegoers over the past two years — not in praise of a theater chain, but of an actress who makes movies better.
“She takes us somewhere we’ve never been before. Not just entertained, but somehow reborn,” Freeman intoned. “Somehow, she makes heartbreak feel good in a place like this.”
Freeman later took to the stage and praised Kidman’s long filmography, most notably “Moulin Rouge,” which he called his favorite — and even sang a little bit from that 2001 musical.
