Lifetime award for Morgan Freeman

United States veteran actor has ever won the Oscar, Morgan Freeman, received a Lifetime Service Award from the American Film Institute (AFI) in an event attended by many famous movie stars in Los Angeles.

Clint Eastwood and veteran British actress Helen Mirren is among a number of filmmakers who give homage to the 74-year-old actor said in a ceremony held in the building the Sony Studios in Culver City, recently.

"It is easy to accept but it is very difficult to believe," said Freeman, who became the 39th person who received the prestigious award from the AFI's. "In my hometown in Mississippi, they call it happiness that do not measure," he added.

Freeman ceremonial career that lasted for three and a half hours of it showing various clips from the films successful Freeman. Among these are the Glory, Driving Miss Daisy and Million Dollar Baby. Actors and actresses who played the movie with Freeman turns giving speeches contain praise and joke about Freeman.

Clint Eastwood called him "one of the easiest as a friend".

"In a world filled with stones sirkon, you are the original diamond," said the Pulp Fiction actor Samuel L Jackson, who is close to Freeman and Freeman had been a substitute player in a theater performance in New York.

Actor Forest Whitaker, who played Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland referred to it as "an adviser, a lantern, a place to complain, protector and a friend".

Another veteran black actor, Sidney Poitier and companion actor Freeman in the movie The Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins, also gives praise.

The other filmmakers who have received similar awards from the AFI include Poitier, Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, and director Steven Spielberg.