Meryl Streep to be presented with Cecil B. DeMille Award at Golden Globes on January 8

The great Meryl Streep has won eight Golden Globe Awards and is certain to be a winner again when the Globes are handed out on January 8. It’s just been announced that Miss Streep will be the recipient of the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. The prize has in the past gone to such people as Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack NIcholson, Doris Day, Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg and last year’s recipient Denzel Washington. The award is given to a talented individual for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment. Denzel Washington was honored last year. Miss Streep is only the third female recipient of the award since 2000, when Streisand won it. Jodie Foster was honored in 2013.

Streep has earned 29 Golden Globe nominations and could get a 30th this year if she receives a nod for Florence Foster Jenkins. She last won in 2011 for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.