Viola Davis will rep the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in January. She would perchance be honored within the course of the community’s 2025 gala hosted by Nikki Glaser on Friday, January 3, at the Beverly Hilton.
Davis obtained a Supporting Actress Oscar and a Golden Globe for 2016’s Fences and has three other profession nominations: Very best Actress for Ma Rainey’s Dark Bottom (2020) and The Serve (2011) and Supporting Actress for Doubt (2009). She also has six other Golden Globe noms, most no longer too prolonged within the past for 2022’s The Lady King.
Davis’ prolonged list of enormous-display credit also include The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Air, The Suicide Squad, Widows, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby motion photos and Solaris. She also has performed a great deal of TV work including the lead in Systems to Acquire Away with Abolish in conjunction with Are residing in Front of a Studio Viewers, The First Lady, Peacemaker, United States of Tara and a series-traditional stint on CBS’ Metropolis of Angels
“Viola Davis is a luminary whose profound abilities has consistently shifted the lens whereby we see and perceive film,” Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne acknowledged. “Presenting her with the 2025 Cecil B. DeMille Award is no longer handiest an honor nonetheless a reflection of our admiration for her relentless dedication to her craft and her huge influence on the industry. Viola’s braveness in portraying advanced, remarkable characters has broken obstacles and paved contemporary paths, making her an emblem of excellence and an absolute best recipient of this prestigious award.”
The Cecil B. DeMille Award used to be created in 1952 to honor the eponymous director and has been introduced to 69 Hollywood’s greats starting from Walt Disney and Jack Warner to Sidney Poitier and Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand to Oprah Winfrey. The prize used to be no longer awarded in 2024.
