Meryl Streep to get Cecil B DeMille Award at the Golden Globes

MERYL Streep has a trophy cabinet filled with awards but it has been announced that she will receive perhaps her most prestigious award yet.

Meryl Streep will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment. Picture: AP

EIGHT-TIME Golden Globe winner Meryl Streep will add one more award at this year’s Globes: the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that Streep will receive its prestigious honour for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.”

The 67-year-old actress has long been a mainstay at the ceremony.

She’s been nominated 29 times.

She was first nominated in 1978 for The Deer Hunter and won the following year for Kramer vs. Kramer.

Meryl Streep holds her Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Iron Lady. Picture: AFP

Meryl Streep poses with her Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama award for The Iron Lady. Picture: AFP

Her last Golden Globe win was for The Iron Lady but was also nominated for Hope Springs, August: Osage County and Into the Woods.

Streep is also in the running this year.

Her performance in Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a good bet to land a nomination for best actress in a comedy or musical.

The 64-year-old tribute was given last year to Denzel Washington.

Other recent honorees include Martin Scorsese, George Clooney, Jodie Foster and Morgan Freeman.

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