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\u201cWhat happened was I was at the Oscars, I had lost, and then people kept coming over to me and kept [patting] me on the shoulder,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cClint Eastwood<\/a> came and rubbed my shoulder. And I was like, \u2018Oh, no, no, I\u2019m not gonna be this guy all night. Let\u2019s just leave.\u2019 I didn\u2019t storm out. I was like, \u2018I\u2019m not gonna be the sympathy guy all night.’\u201d<\/p>\n Other best supporting actor nominees that year included Mark Wahlberg<\/a> for \u201cThe Departed<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eddie Murphy famously left the 2007 Academy Awards after he lost the best supporting actor award for his role as James \u201cThunder\u201d Early in \u201cDreamgirls.\u201d However, the premature exit wasn\u2019t out of spite. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, the \u201cTrading Places\u201d star said it was because several of his fellow attendees felt bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2221154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2221153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Eddie-Murphy-Left-2007-Oscars-After-Losing-Best-Supporting-Actor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221155,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221153\/revisions\/2221155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}