It was recently announced that Oprah Winfrey is the recipient of the 2018 Cecil B. deMille Award of the 75th Golden Globes. Chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association‘s Board of Directors (The Golden Globe Awards), the Cecil B. deMille Award is given annually to a talented individual for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.
The multi-talented Winfrey known as an actress, producer, television star and entrepreneur, was previously nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in The Color Purple but is best known as TV Host for her television show, The Oprah Winfrey Show which was at the top of the day-time TV charts for 25 years. She earned critical acclaim in Director Lee Daniels’ The Butler and produced and acted in the Golden Globe-winning Selma. More recently, Winfrey has agreed to portray the character of “Mrs. Which” in Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time.
Chairman and CEO of her successful cable network, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), “O” (The Oprah Magazine) and Harpo Films, Winfrey manages to keep herself quite busy during, as she would call it, this – “Next Chapter” of her life.
Oprah Winfrey recently reflected on her long career and where she is now.
“I don’t know anything that is not fun. Well actually, it’s a very simple life except lived on a very large scale. Now, it’s about enjoying the view from this space and finding joy and great pleasure in this career that you have built. And just now choosing what you want to do, what fits in this particular moment, what feels like this is how I truly want to express myself now. And I do believe that every human being here is here on Earth to live up to the altruistic expression of themselves as a human being.”
The 75th Annual Golden Globe® Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, will take place on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, and air live coast-to-coast on NBC from 5-8 p.m. PT / 8-11 p.m. ET from The Beverly Hilton.