10 Things You Didn't Know About Jason Voorhees
4. He Won A Lifetime Achievement Award
In the same year that Keanu Reeves won Most Desirable Male for Point Break and Edward Furlong won Breakthrough Performance for Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Jason received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1992 MTV Movie Awards – not bad considering he hadn’t been onscreen since 1988’s Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.
Introducing the award, host Dennis Miller reminded the audience that the category usually recognized such luminaries as Orson Welles, James Stewart and Kathryn Hepburn “people who have dedicated their lives to filmmaking and inspired generations to follow in their footsteps. Big Deal. The MTV Lifetime Achievement Award honours the unappreciated careers of people like this next performer, a gentleman who has had a tremendous impact on the cinematic art form.”
Following a montage of Jason’s greatest hits (set to “Nothing Compares 2U” and “My Way”), Jason took to the stage wearing, for the first time in his career, a tuxedo. “Hollywood, the future is ours,” he said, before being unmasked as actor Jon Lovitz.
That’s right – the guy who plays Artie Ziff in The Simpsons.