Viola Davis to receive Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Viola Davis became one of Hollywood’s astir revered actors done an array of almighty roles, from “ Fences ” to “ The Woman King,” and present her decorated vocation has earned her 1 of the Golden Globes’ highest honors.

Davis volition person the Cecil B. DeMille Award astatine the 82nd yearly awards ceremonial connected Jan 5, the Golden Globes announced Wednesday morning. The histrion has won praise for a drawstring of compelling characters successful films specified arsenic “The Help,” “ Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ” and “Doubt,” portion captivating TV audiences done the ineligible thriller play “How to Get Away with Murder.”

Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne called Davis a “luminary,” and expressed admiration for the actor’s dedication to her trade and interaction connected the industry.

“Viola’s courageousness successful portraying complex, almighty characters has breached barriers and paved caller paths, making her an emblem of excellence and an perfect recipient of this prestigious award,” Hoehne said.

The DeMille Award has been bestowed to 69 of Hollywood’s top talents. Past recipients see Tom Hanks, Jeff Bridges, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand and Sidney Poitier.

Nominations for the upcoming Globes amusement are scheduled to beryllium announced Dec. 9.

Davis, 59, has 2 Tonys, astir precocious for “Fences” successful 2010, she won an Emmy successful 2015 for “How to Get Away with Murder,” and an Oscar and Golden Globe successful 2016 for the movie mentation of “Fences.” She achieved EGOT status aft winning a Grammy past twelvemonth for champion audio book, narration, and storytelling signaling for her memoir “Finding Me.”

In 2022, Davis was honored with the Public Counsel’s William O Douglas Award for her committedness to societal justness causes. She has partnered with aggregate programs to eradicate puerility hunger successful the United States.

Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, founded a accumulation company, JuVee Productions, which develops and produces autarkic films, theater, tv and integer content. Earlier this year, the institution filmed an enactment thriller for Amazon Studios successful Cape Town and reportedly plans to instrumentality to South Africa to movie the existent communicative of a young African refugee’s travel to the U.S.

Davis and the 2025 Carol Burnett Award winner, honoring tv achievements, volition beryllium praised astatine a gala meal Jan. 3 astatine the Beverly Hilton Hotel. For the archetypal time, the Globes volition big a abstracted lawsuit dedicated to some awards.

Davis volition beryllium recognized during the awards ceremonial broadcast.