Steven Spielberg To Receive DeMille Award At Golden Globes Ceremony

Steven Spielberg is set to receive the Cecil B DeMille award for Lifetime Achievement at next year’s Golden Globes. The legendary director will be honoured at the star studded 65th annual Golden Globes in January.

The recipient of the award is voted for by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and is normally awarded to actors rather than directors. In fact Spielberg will be the first director to win it since Alfred Hitchcock in 1972.

Spielberg, now 60, has been nominated for eighteen and already won six Golden Globes through his illustrious career. The four films which won him these were Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Letters From Iwo Jima and ET.

This is just the latest in a long line of awards for the director, who has previously received lifetime achievement awards from the Directors Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Centre.

Globe nominations will be announced at 5am on December 13th, but the DeMille award has been announced early. Former winners include Warren Beatty, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas and Robin Williams.

The Golden Globes will take place on January 13th 2008.