Meryl Streep, regarded as the finest actor of her generation, will get the Golden Globes lifetime achievement award at the annual ceremony in January, organisers announced on Thursday.
Streep, a three-time Oscar winner, will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille award in recognition of her 40 years in the industry.
“She has always taken roles with strong female leads, creating art by showing vulnerability and portraying truth on the big screen. Simply put, she is a trailblazer, having paved the way for women in television, film and stage,” Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) President Lorenzo Sofia said in a statement.
“For shattering gender and age barriers, all with finesse and grace, the HFPA is humbled to bestow this honour upon her,” Sofia added.
The HFPA organises the Golden Globes awards for film and television, one of the biggest ceremonies in Hollywood’s long awards season. The 2017 ceremony will take place in Beverly Hills on January 8.
Streep’s most recent film was the 2016 comedy, Florence Foster Jenkins, in which she plays a rich, elderly American with no talent for singing but big ambitions.
The 67-year-old actor won Oscars for her performances in The Iron Lady, Sophie’s Choice and Kramer vs. Kramer. She has received a record-setting 19 Oscar nominations during her career.
Streep joins Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Woody Allen and Jodie Foster as recipients of the Cecil B. DeMille award.
Golden Globe Awards 2017
The 74th annual Golden Globe Awards nominations were revealed on Monday morning (Dec. 12) with past winners Don Cheadle and Laura Dern and nominee Anna Kendrick doing the honors from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Among the early leaders on TV were The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, which had five nominations, and The Night Manager with four. In the movie field, movie musical La La Land leads all film nominees with seven nods, edging out the acclaimed drama Moonlight, which had six.
Golden Globe Awards 2017
The awards, voted on by the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will be handed out live on NBC on Jan. 8, 2017, led by The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon. Twenty-nine-time nominee and eight-time winner Meryl Streep, who is nominated for her role in Florence Foster Jenkins (which seized a total of four nominations), will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Golden Globe Awards 2017
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Great performance Ms Streep, as always. (I love her as an actress). Happy to hear her shaky at the beginning voice came back to normal during Golden Globe speech yesterday.
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