Photo: Bill Murray tries to figure out a way to carry his Tortuga Verde lifetime achievement award. (AP /The Florida Times-Union)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Bill Murray, who won a Golden Globe earlier this year for his role in Lost in Translation, received a lifetime achievement award at the Jacksonville Film Festival. Murray, 53, kissed the award -- a glass-and-wood turtle -- then made a face. "It smells like the ocean," Murray said at the ceremony Saturday night. "It's the only award I have that does." 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 such as Caddyshack and Meatballs. Lost in Translation, about two lonely Americans who find friendship in a Tokyo hotel, earned Murray an Oscar nomination. He told a packed auditorium at the Florida Theatre that his latest honour proves "that I'm not in it just for the awards." "It's just an accident I'm receiving this," Murray said. "I happen to know Patrick Swayze left unexpectedly, and I happened to be here." Murray's latest film, Coffee and Cigarettes, is a compilation of 11 vignettes featuring actors and musicians playing versions of themselves as they sit down for coffee, cigarettes and banter. The film opened Friday in select theatres.

Photo:Joel Grey, a cast member from Wicked. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wicked was chosen best musical of the New York theatre season, and I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright was named best play in awards given Sunday by the Drama Desk, an organization of theatre journalists and critics. Wicked, based on Gregory Maguire's cult novel about the witches in Oz before Dorothy arrives on the Yellow Brick Road, took six Drama Desk honours. Assassins, a revival of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical, about presidential killers picked up four prizes, including the award for musical revival. The Lincoln Center Theater production of Henry IV received three awards, including a top acting honour for its star, Kevin Kline, who played Falstaff. The Shakespeare drama also won for play-revival and for director-play, Jack O'Brien. Phylicia Rashad, who portrays the determined matriarch in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and Viola Davis, a lonely seamstress in off-Broadway's Intimate Apparel, tied in the leading actress-play category. Hugh Jackman, whose portrayal of flamboyant entertainer Peter Allen galvanizes The Boy From Oz, was named best actor in a musical. Donna Murphy, the wry, older sister in the revival of Wonderful Town, was named best actress-musical. Featured-acting prizes in the play categories went to Ned Beatty, Big Daddy in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Audra McDonald, the patient, hardworking wife in A Raisin in the Sun. Winners in the featured-acting musical categories were Isabel Keating, who plays Judy Garland in The Boy From Oz, and Raul Esparza, the extravagant narrator in the Boy George musical Taboo. Jefferson Mays, who portrays a German transvestite who survives both the Nazis and the communists in I Am My Own Wife, won the solo performance award. Besides best musical, Wicked received prizes for its direction, Joe Mantello; lyrics, Stephen Schwartz; book, Winnie Holzman; sets, Eugene Lee (a tie with John Lee Beatty for Twentieth Century), and costumes, Susan Hilferty. The prize for best music went to Jeanine Tesori for her eclectic melodies in the Tony Kushner musical Caroline, or Change. Kathleen Marshall won the choreography award for her work on Wonderful Town. Assassins also picked up prizes for orchestrations, Michael Starobin; lighting, Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, and sound design, Dan Moses Schreier. The awards show was held in the concert hall at F.H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts. The Drama Desk, which was founded in 1949, honours both Broadway and off-Broadway productions. -Michael Kuchwara.