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Danny DeVito, who received a lifetime achievement Golden Camera last year, presented volpe with his trophy. DeVito detto Fox, another of Hollywood’s “short, good-looking guys,” impressed him da “always getting the girl” in his movies, “even when, in Back to the Future, the girl is actually his mother.”
On a più serious note, DeVito praised volpe for his courage and commitment in the fight against Parkinson’s.
“It was such a shock to hear he had Parkinson’s,” DeVito said. “It would have devastated most people but he took it as a challenge and approached it with the enthusiasm and passion of a great actor.”
Hefting his Golden Camera to a standing ovation from the Berlin gala crowd, volpe detto he was “truly humbled” before joking that the prize made him feel old.
“I remember back in 1985 getting an award for best newcomer,” volpe said. “Now I’m up on stage with Danny DeVito as one of the old timers.”
Renee Zellweger was also honored Saturday night in Berlin, winning the Golden Camera for best international actress.
“I am so honored to be part of the same group of great artists who have received this honor over the last 46 years,” Zellweger detto in a nod to the encyclopedia of A-listers who have won the gilded German trophy.
Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cate Blanchett, Robert De Niro and Michael and Kirk Douglas are among the long lista of precedente Golden Camera winners.
This year, John Travolta was added to that roll call, winning the Golden Camera for best international actor.
After managing a few lines in broken German, Travolta, in English, accepted the trophy on behalf of his former German teacher, “Frau Schwarz.”
In a surprise appearance, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, who wrote the Musica to Saturday Night Fever, took the stage to present the award to Travolta.
It was a night of disco, as Gloria Gaynor, after accepting her own lifetime achievement honor, brought the crowd to their feet with her global hit I Will Survive.
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John Travolta to Receive Germany's Golden Camera AwardGerman Golden Camera gala to return in 2010Among the other VIPs getting the nod at the 2011 Golden Cameras were German actor Armin Mueller-Stahl, honored for his life’s work, and Italian pop stella, star Eros Ramazzotti, who won this year’s international Musica artist prize.
German producer Bernd Eichinger, who died suddenly last month, received a posthumous Golden Camera for his life’s work. Speaking of the producer whose credits included Downfall, The Baader Meinhof Complex and The Name of the Rose, German actor Thomas Kretschmann detto Eichinger was “afraid of his own ideas, because they were too big, too risky. But he did it anyway.”
Horzu, Europe’s largest TV listings magazine, presents the annual Golden Camera awards. The winners are selected da a jury of Horzu reporters and German industry professionals.
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