Bill Murray is an American actor and comedian. Murray has received a BAFTA Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Independent Spirit Awards as well as nominations for a Academy Award and three Actor Awards. In 2016, he received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Murray started his career as a cast member and writer on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for which he earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1977. He transitioned to film where he gained stardom in comedy films and became known for his collaborations with filmmakers such as Harold Ramis, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, and Jim Jarmusch. He starred in the science-fiction comedy Ghostbusters (1984) for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture â Musical or Comedy. He made his first collaboration with director Wes Anderson in the coming-of-age film Rushmore (1998) for which he received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male as well as a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor â Motion Picture.
He starred in his first collaboration with Sofia Coppola playing an aging actor in the romantic dramedy Lost in Translation (2003) for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture â Musical or Comedy, in addition to nominations for the Academy Award, the Actor Award, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award, all for Best Actor. He received further Golden Globe-nominations for his performances as Franklin D. Roosevelt in the historical film Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), a retired war veteran in the comedy St. Vincent (2014), and a caring father in On the Rocks (2020).
On television, he starred in the HBO limited series Olive Kitteridge (2014) for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor â Series, Miniseries or Television Film. He starred in the Netflix special A Very Murray Christmas (2015) for which he was nominated as a producer for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.