Tag: Cecil B. DeMille Award

  • Michael Douglas to get honourary Golden Globe

    Michael Douglas to get honourary Golden Globe

    LOS ANGELES: With December fast approaching the movie awards season is all set to kick off. One of the first winners is actor Michael Douglas Wall Street.

    He will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for career achievement at the 61st edition of the Golden Globes. In India the show will air live on Star World on 26 January in the morning

    Previous recepeints of this award include Harrison Ford and Barbara Streisand. The Golden Globes Awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Nominations will be announced next month. It is considered an important barometer as to what the Academy Awards will nominate.

    The nominated film line up for the Golden Globes should include Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River, the Sean Penn drama 21 Grams, Fox’s sea faring adventure Master And Commander as well as the period piece Sea Biscuit. which is set during the depression era.

  • Gene Hackman to be honoured at 60th Golden Globe Awards

    Gene Hackman to be honoured at 60th Golden Globe Awards

    HOLLYWOOD: Veteran actor Gene Hackman The French Connection has been selected as the recipient of the 2003 Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field,”

    The award, voted by the board of directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be presented to Hackman at the 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held on 19 January. In the US it will telecast live on NBC (8-11 pm EST). In India it will probably air on one of the Star channels live in the morning on 20 January. The event will take place in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Golden Globe nominations in the film and television categories will be announced on 19 December.

    An official release informs that Hackman won a Golden Globe last year in the comedy category for The Royal Tennenbaums. Last year Harrison Ford was the recepient of the Cecil B. DeMille award.