Two decades, Four Weddings And A Funeral! Hugh Grant given gong by on-screen lover Andie MacDowell at Hollywood Film Awards
It is the career highlight he has arguably never matched.
So it seemed only appropriate Hugh Grant's Four Weddings And A Funeral lover Andie MacDowell was the person to hand his supporting actor gong at the Hollywood Film Awards on Sunday.
The Southern belle handed over the prize to the grinning Englishman for his turn opposite Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins, where he played the famed heiress and socialite's husband St. Clair Bayfield.
Hugh beauty: Grant posed up with Four Weddings co-star Andie MacDowell after she handed over his supporting actor gong at the Hollywood Film Awards on Sunday
The fading hunk was quick to compliment his on-screen lover as he drunk up the acclaim.
Self-effacing Hugh, 56, said: ' I'm just depressed at how much better preserved you are than I am after 22 years. Do you use any special creams or anything like that?
'It's amazing. You're still a southern peach and I am, according to Twitter, a scrotum.'
The performer, who was famously accused of being wooden by shock interviewer Dennis Pennis, also said he was astounded to actually get recognised for his acting, saying his award would receive pride of place in his spacious residence.
Southern peach: The actor lathered the well-preserved actress with praise after she handed over his supporting actor gong
Scrotum: In contrast self-effacing Hugh described himself in the least complimentary of ways
He's still got it: The jocular actor had Andie cackling with glee backstage
A star is born: Hugh became a worldwide sex symbol due to his turn as bumbling buffoon Charles opposite Andie in the 1994 hit
He said: 'I almost never get a prize and I'm so pleased with this one. It will not be in my loo or used as a doorstep.'
Hugh, whose ancestry has been described as a 'colourful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy' by genealogist Antony Adolph, has starred in an astounding 27 films since he shot to fame as bumbling Charles in Four Weddings in 1994.
And while he has starred in a mixture of hits and misses since then, by many he will forever be remembered for being punched out by his fiancee at the alter before finally pledging his love to Andie's character Carrie in the gentle Richard Curtis romantic comedy.
How depressing: Hugh joked he was jealous at how much better preserved Andie was
'Do you use any special creams': He even asked her for beauty tips during his hilarious speech
Drinking from the fountain of youth: The fine filly's face looked frozen in time on the red carpet
Hugh lucky boy: The ageing hunk had brought along his girlfriend Anna Eberstein
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