by Nathaniel R
For those craving their dose of La Streep this awards season, rest easy: even if she isn't Oscar nominated for Florence Foster Jenkins in an already highly competitive Best Actress race, she'll at least grace the Golden Globes. She's a shoo-in for a Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical category for her off-key diva and she'll also be this year's Cecil B DeMille Honoree. Remember that every year at some point during the broadcast they stop handing out awards and celebrate a whole career with clips and speeches. On Sunday January 8th, 2017, that section of the night belongs to Meryl...
Naysayers might point out that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been celebrating Meryl Streep every year so this is a tad redundant.
She is the Golden Globe Queen with 29 nominations and 8 wins (3 wins for the 1980s, 4 for the Aughts and 1 this decade for The Iron Lady) across her 39 year film career. The only actor who comes anywhere close to challenging her for HFPA love is the late Jack Lemmon (23 nominations, 5 wins, plus a Cecil B DeMille)
Fun History Aside: The Golden Globes have honored more actresses with the Cecil B DeMille Award (14) over the years than the Academy has given Honorary Oscars to the same group (just 11)
ACTRESSES HONORED WITH THE GLOBES "CECIL B DEMILLE"
remember we use film years to denote ceremonies, not calendar dates
Judy Garland talking to Olivia de Havilland at the 1961 Golden Globes
Judy Garland (1961)
Joan Crawford (1969)
Bette Davis (1973)
Lucille Ball (1978)
Elizabeth Taylor (1984)
Barbara Stanwyck (1985)
Doris Day (1988)
Audrey Hepburn (1989)
Remember when Jodie Foster broke the internet with her Cecil B Demille speech?
Lauren Bacall (1992)
Sophia Loren (1994)
Shirley Maclaine (1997)
Barbra Streisand (1999)
Jodie Foster (2012)
Meryl Streep (2016)
ACTRESSES HONORED WITH HONORARY OSCAR
Excluding the "Jean Hersholt" which is for charity work
Lillian Gish got her Honorary Oscar on a night dominated by men. Patton was the big winner and the best actress winner (Glenda Jackson) wasn't presentGreta Garbo (1954)
Lillian Gish (1970)
Mary Pickford (1975)
Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
Sophia Loren (1990)
Myrna Loy (1990)
Deborah Kerr (1993)
Lauren Bacall (2009)
Angela Lansbury (2013)
Maureen O'Hara (2014)
Gena Rowlands (2015)
Actresses who've received the Jean Hersholt Huminatarian Award:
Technically these count as "honorary Oscars" but it's a different sort of honor since it's not actually for your acting or contributions to cinema but for your offscreen charitable efforts
Martha Raye
Rosalind Russell
Audrey Hepburn
Elizabeth Taylor
Oprah Winfrey
Angelina Jolie
and
Debbie Reynolds