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Awards shows love to polish people into statues. But Hugh Grant does the opposite—he makes Richard Curtis feel humanfirst, then makes the honor land harder. He rewinds to 1992, when he was “floundering” and got the script for Four Weddings and a Funeral… only to learn the writer “did everything in his power to stop me getting the part.” Then comes the turn: Curtis didn’t just write love stories—he spent decades trying to “save the whole bloody world,” dragging an entire industry into fundraising with relentless, absurd asks. Grant jokes, complains, admits he loves him, and finally hands over the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award—because the punchline is Curtis’ goodness.

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