De Niro takes aim at Trump
The Hollywood awards season began on Sunday with A-list stars using the occasion to make political points ahead of the US presidential election. Robert de Niro urged viewers to vote for Hillary Clinton as he said the current political climate resembled a Marx Brothers film in which "lunatics rule the world".De Niro, who has previously called Republican candidate Donald Trump "totally nuts", picked up the Hollywood Comedy award for The Comedian, in which he plays an ageing comic.Tom Hanks won the Hollywood Actor award for Sully, in which he plays the airline pilot who made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in 2009.Natalie Portman took the Hollywood Actress award for her role as Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie.Nicole Kidman won the Hollywood Supporting Actress award for the drama Lion and Hugh Grant took the Supporting Actor prize for Florence Foster Jenkins.Eddie Murphy was presented with the Hollywood Career Achievement award."It makes you feel old because it's a career achievement and they're looking at all of your stuff," Murphy said. ..
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