Hugh Laurie honoured with an OBE

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Hugh was honored with the Valley Community Clinic Visionary Award on Oct 10th, 2007

From LA Comfidential:

"I really am incredibly moved by this. Of course I feel a complete fool standing here before you," Laurie told the crowd at the Sheraton Universal Hotel. "I pretend to be a doctor to pretend patients with pretend illnesses. Here I am being honored by doctors. That seems to me to be ... backward. This feeling of fakeness is all the more acute because I am the son of a doctor."

Laurie, who is British, talked about Britain's national healthcare system, which he said is far from perfect, but he added, "When you are at your weakest, there is someone there to take care of you. It is something. This whole business of healthcare from cradle to grave is so embedded in my bones."

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September 16, 2007. Emmy Awards

avi file of Hugh's E! red carpet interview.

avi file of Hugh with Ellen DeGeneres during the ceremony

marykir has many clips up to, during and after the ceremony

youtube interview clips

Screencaps from the Fox Red Carpet interview

Screencaps from the ceremony

Screencaps from E! Red Carpet Interview

Hugh performing with Band From TV at the TV Guide afterparty:

TV Guide's Emmy after-party
Bash brings Versailles to Hollywood - From Variety

Greg Grunberg's All-Star 'Band From TV': Rock N' Roll Heroes Perform on Emmy Night - From Hollywood.com

And the Award for Best Emmy Party Goes To.. E! Online

Oct 1st issue of TV Guide:

Emmys. Nonhires:

Hires

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July 30, 2007 - Photoshoot for Variety's - Emmy Contenders. Non hires

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13th Annual Screen Actor's Guild Awards. Hugh win for Best Actor in a Drama Series. January 28, 2007.

After party at Ago Restaurant (Non hi-res, tags)

Click for photo gallery of the show, pressroom and backstage. More hires photos to be added. Vid clips on Video page

Screen Actor's Guild gallery photos (hires)

Hires:

Hugh's acceptance speech and photo from the Screen Actor's Guild official website.

From the Hollywood Reporter:

Medical drama also proved to be a winning prescription for Laurie, who was nominated last year as best actor in a TV drama series for his quirky doctor in "House." This year, he won the SAG Award in the same category on his second try. He couldn't resist responding to Murphy after taking the stage, saying, "I'm British, which accounts for why I'm so smooth." But he also added, "It seems to be that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work -- it's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work."

From the LA Times - excerpt regarding the SAG award trophy:

Rainn Wilson of NBC's "The Office" said he had a closer relationship to the trophy. "I actually modeled for this a few years ago. I was the buttocks model." Laurie, who isn't a doctor but plays one on TV, said he worried that in photos his thumb would appear to be giving his trophy an exam of some sort.

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Hugh was a presenter at the Producer's Guild Awards Saturday night. Grey's Anatomy won the episodic television award.

From the LA Times:

"Elizabeth II" was awarded the David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long Form Television. Suzan Harrison, George Faber, Charles Pattinson and Barney Reisz were presented the award by Hugh Laurie and Calista Flockhart."

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Non - hires

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64th Golden Globes, January 15, 2007. Hugh wins his second consecutive award for Best Actor in a Television Drama!

Check out google news for many news items on the awards

"I know everyone says they have a wonderful crew and certainly that can't be the case. We can't all be wonderful. Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves. But it's not me." -- Drama actor winner Hugh Laurie for TV's "House

From the Hollywood Reporter:

"I am speechless. I am literally without a speech," Laurie said in accepting his second consecutive Globe statuette for his role on the Fox medical drama. He hugged Greg Grunberg of NBC's "Heroes," one of the award's presenters and his bandmate in the Band From TV.

To prevent that from happening in the future, Laurie suggested that along with "free shoes and free cuff links and free colonic irrigations," companies should offer award nominees free acceptance speeches, too. "I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana,"cq he said.

Laurie went on to thank "the two people to whom I owe absolutely everything, the two cleverest and funniest and kindest and frankly best bosses that a man can hope to have, ("House" creator) David Shore and (executive producer) Katie Jacobs."

Entertainment Weekly has deemed Hugh the "Wittiest Winner"

Wittiest Winner
Hugh Laurie

"Maybe the Globes honored so many British stars because they can be counted on to give funny speeches. Cleverest was Hugh Laurie's speech accepting his Best Actor in a Drama Series trophy. The House star first quipped that he wished designers would donate speeches to the stars the way they do formalwear. Then he upended the cliché about thanking the crew, saying, ''I know everyone says they have a wonderful crew and logically that can't be the case and they can't all be wonderful. Somebody, somewhere, is working with a crew of drunken thieves.'' No one could have donated that bit; it was pure Laurie."

Press room conference vid clip and interview at TVguide.com (to the right, scroll). There is also a TVGuide.com post Globe interview with Hugh as well.

Msn coverage and videos

Clip from Good Day LA showing part of Hugh's acceptance speech.

Red carpet, Golden Globe show, post show, and infotainment clips and screencaps can be found on the Media Page

Stephen Fry and Hugh head to the limo. (Thanks Scott. Non-hires)

HBO Pre - Golden Golden Globes Party, January 13, 2007 (with Bill Paxton)

Hugh's nomination reaction from the Hollywood Reporter:

Hugh Laurie, who was nominated for best actor in a drama series for his role in Fox's "House," said he was "thrilled to bits" about his nomination. "Couldn't be more delighted. I am already planning to arouse comment, perhaps even scandal, with my choice of bow-tie," the British actor joked. He indicated that he was a bit speechless but might look to fellow nominee Kiefer Sutherland, up for his role in Fox's "24," for inspiration. "Oh heck, I don't know. What's a chap supposed to say? Let's find out what Keifer says and try and say it just before him."

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Golden Satellite Award - Winner - Best Actor in a Television Drama

Lawrence Kaplow accepted the award for House and Dan Sackheim accepted the award for Hugh, who was in London and unable to attend. Dec. 17, 2006

Official website

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58th Annual Emmy Awards

August 27, 2006.

Hugh and Helen Mirren presented the award for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Movie to Andre Braugher House was nominated for Outstanding Drama, won by 24. Hugh was inexplicibly left off the list of nominees this year (along with several other shocking omissions), causing many leading pundits and critics, as well as The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to re-evaluate the revamped nominations process. Read what some people had to say about Hugh.

TV Guide Party - with BANDFROMTV (Official myspace)

Also Suzy from the Daily Blabber at ivillage sent this link to a video clip of Hugh on the keyboards at the TV Guide Emmy Party. Thanks Suzy!

Awards show and press room - copyright to Getty, Dailyceleb and Wireimage

Copyright to the Associated Press,Reuters, Wireimage and Getty

Photos from Emmy rehearsal. Copyright to Matthew Imaging

Entertainment Weekly's 4th Annual Pre-Emmy Party - Copyright to Gamma, Getty Images Entertainment/ Kevin Winter and Wireimage/John Shearer, Dailyceleb

Hugh was announced as a presenter at the Emmys

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Television Critics Awards, July 23, 2006 - Hugh Laurie wins for Individual Acheivement in Drama

Hugh Laurie attends the cocktail reception for the 2006 Summer TCA Awards held at The Ritz-Carlton on July 23, 2006 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

''I never believed for one moment that my respect and admiration for television critics could grow ever greater. It has. This is partly because I'm not from these parts. I am from England, as you can probably tell, from the fact that I've just told you. ... The relationship between artist and critic (in England) is very different. Over there, the artist is, if you like, the mouse. And the critic is the vicious sociopath who shatters dreams. It strikes me as a very different setup here and for that, I and everyone else on the show ''House'' is extremely grateful....

''As for this award, a couple of weeks ago I had the good fortune to attend the U.S. Grand Prix in Indianapolis, won, as usual, by Michael Schumacher ... He has been world racing champion, Formula One, for the last seven years. But even his most ardent admirers would have to admit that it's got something to do with the fact that he has the fastest car. Elizabeth Taylor could probably get a podium place. ... People compete with unequal equipment. If, for example, it's a running race and Michael Schumacher began the race with running spikes and the man next to him had lace-up Oxfords, and the man next to him was running in stilettos and the man on the outside lane was wearing a pair of West Highland Terriers. ... But so it is with the business of acting. ... I feel very much in the position of the man who has got a very, very fast car. ... I am, every day that I go to work, deeply sensible of the honor I have to sit at the wheel and drive this wonderful character called House.''

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The 2006 British Academy Television Awards, May 7, 2006

London's Grosvenor House hotel. Hugh presented the Best Actress award to Anna Maxwell Martin for her work in Bleak House. Read more about the event from the BBC. Images copyright to Getty Images, Wireimage and Retna

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"For most of my career, I have held the belief that television critics are some of the wisest, kindest people,'' he said, getting big laughs. ''I suppose with this you are showing the wisdom of Solomon. Although I know a lot of you thought Solomon was rather two-dimensional. A little generic, you know.

"I should tell you that the last time I won an award for acting, my parents were in the audience. ... I saw their faces as my name was read out and they smiled at each other, a smile of pride, and that stayed with me. To be honest, I didn't give my parents a lot of reasons to be proud, but this was one of them.

''I was 9 years old. And I thought it would be amusing to actually dig out my speech that I delivered on that occasion. I read through it. It turns out to be a lot of rambling about my publicist. Who was also my geography teacher.''