Morgan Freeman to get Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at Golden Globes

Chris Pizzello/AP Photo The Hollywood Foreign Press Association introduced Wednesday that actor Morgan Freeman will get the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the 69th annual Golden Globe Honours on Sunday, The month of january 15. Actress Can Be (The Muppets) and author/director Pedro Almodovar (Your Skin My Home Is) revelaed this news throughout a press conference.our editor recommendsMorgan Freeman's AFI Tribute: Betty Whitened, Helen Mirren and Clint Eastwood Recognition the ActorMorgan Freeman Sparks Outcry After Calling Tea Party RacistMorgan Freeman Ponders Aliens and also the Afterlife for 'Through the Wormhole' PHOTOS: Morgan Freeman in 'Deep Impact' and 21 Other Movie Presidents The 74-year-old, whose flourishing voice continues to be compared to God's, made his film debut in 1964. Within the years since, he's given memorable performances in a large number of significantly and/or in a commercial sense effective films. One of the better known: Jerry Schatzberg's Street Wise (1987), Bruce Beresford's Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Edward Zwick's Glory (1989), Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992), Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994), David Fincher's Se7en (1995), Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997), Eastwood's Billion Dollar Baby (2004), Film Clip's Gone Baby Gone (2007), Christopher Nolan's The Dark Dark night (2008), and Eastwood's Invictus (2009). PHOTOS: Box Office Politics: The Films and Stars Dems versus. GOPers Love (And Like to Hate) Freeman has gotten five Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe nominations, winning the very best supporting actor Oscar for Billion Dollar Baby and also the best actor (musical or comedy) Globe for Driving Miss Daisy. Previous readers from the recognition, which is dependent upon the HFPA's board of company directors, include Alfred Hitchcock, Lucille Ball, Sidney Poitier, Sophia Loren, Sean Connery, Barbra Streisand, Martin Scorsese, and, at this past year's ceremony, Robert P Niro.