Bill Murray Honored at 2nd Annual Film Festival

JACKSONVILLE, FL (AP) -- Golden Globe-winning actor Bill Murray lent some star power to the second annual Jacksonville Film Festival, receiving the group's lifetime achievement award in return. Murray was honored Saturday night at the Florida Theatre and left with the festival's Tortuga Verde Award, a hand-blown glass and wood turtle. Murray kissed the sculpture, then made a face. "It smells like the ocean," Murray said. "It's the only award I have that does." Murray, 53, won a Golden Globe earlier this year for his work in "Lost in Translation," the story of two lonely Americans who find friendship in a Tokyo hotel. He also earned an Academy Award BestActor nomination for the film. The Golden Globe was the first major acting prize for Murray, who gained fame in the 1970s as a goofball on TV's "Saturday Night Live" and continued that schtick in movies like "Caddyshack" and "Meatballs." Murray, an avid golfer, played in his annual charity golf tournament in St. Augustine on Thursday and Friday, raising money for the St. Vincent's Foundation -- a group that brings free medical services to the poor and needy. "Raising thousands of dollars for the St. Vincent's trucks is really the only thing I'm proud of that I've done in Florida," he said, pausing briefly before delivering the punch line. "And, of course, Caddyshack." Murray currently appears in the film "Coffee and Cigarettes," a compilation of 11 vignettes featuring actors and musicians playing versions of themselves as they sit down together forcoffee, cigarettes and seemingly insignificant banter. The film opened Friday in select theaters. His deadpan comic style drew rave reviews from festival-goers, even when he told the filled auditorium that his latest honor proves "that I'm not in it just for the awards." "It's just an accident I'm receiving this," he said. "I happen to know Patrick Swayze left unexpectedly, and I happened to be here."