10 Best Ways Actors Ever Received Awards
9. Ving Rhames Gives His Golden Globe To Fellow Nominee Jack Lemmon
In 1998, Ving Rhames won the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Miniseries or TV film) for his performance in Don King: Only in America, and did perhaps the classiest thing that anybody has ever done at the Golden Globes - which, admittedly, is a pretty low bar.
When a visibly moved Rhames took to the stage, he soon enough asked his fellow nominee, Jack Lemmon, to join him, at which point he gave his Golden Globe to Lemmon, implying that he believed he was the rightful winner of the award.
Lemmon attempted to give the award back to Rhames but he refused, and so Lemmon, clearly overcome with emotion, called the gesture "one of the nicest, sweetest moments I've ever known in my life."
In light of this, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had a second award made for Rhames, ensuring he still received a statuette of his own.
We always knew Ving Rhames was cool, but with this impossibly generous gesture he went straight into the stratosphere.