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Creamy-voiced movie star Morgan Freeman<\/a> may not be a fan of the Oscars, once saying that he\u2019d be fine with the golden statues being scrapped altogether, but there\u2019s one bit of bling that he\u2019s perfectly fine with, and that\u2019s his earrings.<\/p>\n Quite famous for rocking a pair of gold hoops on his lugholes, he wears them these days as a nod to an old seafaring tradition, which went along the lines of making sure that a sailor could afford a proper coffin if he died while away from home and without his savings. <\/p>\n Not that Freeman is likely not to be able to afford that, given he earns something like $5-10million per movie, and has done so since he really cemented his fame in the mighty prisonbreak drama The Shawshank Redemption<\/a>, the Stephen King adaptation that regularly goes down as one of, if not the highest-rated film in history. <\/p>\n Now 88 years young, Freeman has been acting since the mid-1960s, and was actually twice Oscar-nominated many years before his role as Red alongside Tim Robbins, for 1987\u2019s Street Smart and Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. The latter won the Oscar for \u2018Best Picture\u2019 the following year, and Freeman excelled in his performance as Jessica Tandy\u2019s chauffeur. <\/p>\n After Shawshank, the actor followed up in the most spectacular way possible by starring in another of the greatest films ever made; David Fincher\u2019s bloody serial killer smash Seven with Brad Pitt before he made use of his sizable reputation in order to land parts in two blockbusters, namely Steven Spieberg\u2019s slave ship epic Amistad, the worryingly prescient virus thriller Outbreak and the sci-fi disaster movie Deep Impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although the latter suffered from being released alongside the markedly better Armageddon, Freeman remained one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, especially thanks to that distinctive voice of his, which was so relaxing and in demand that it made him the de facto voiceover artist in Hollywood for many years to come, especially where roaming penguins were concerned. <\/p>\n