Globes To Honor Spielberg With DeMille Award

Legendary filmmaker Stephen Spielberg has been tapped as this year's recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award by the organizers of the Golden Globes.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday that the Oscar-winning director and producer is being honored for the DeMille Award for "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field" at the 65th annual Golden Globes ceremony Jan 13.

Spielberg has won six Golden Globes, for Best Director for "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan"; for Best Motion Picture (Drama) for "E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial," "Schindler's List," and "Saving Private Ryan"; and for Best Foreign Language Film For "Letters From Iwo Jima."

He's been nominated an additional 12 times, including Best Director nods for "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "E.T., the Extra Terrestrial," "The Color Purple," "Amistad" and "Munich."

Steven Spielberg also co-founded DreamWorks Studios in 1994 with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. His philanthropic efforts include the establishment of the Righteous Persons Foundation, funded by all his profits from "Schindler's List." In addition, Spielberg founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, where more than 52,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies have been recorded.

Recent Cecil B. DeMille winners include Warren Beatty (2007), Anthony Hopkins (2006), Robin Williams (2005), Michael Douglas (2004), Gene Hackman (2003), Harrison Ford (2002), Al Pacino (2001) and Barbra Streisand (2000).

Spielberg, 60, is currently working on the long-anticipated fourth Indiana Jones adventure "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," with longtime friend and collaborator George Lucas. The film, which stars Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone and Shia LaBeouf, will be released next May.

Nominations for the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards are Dec. 13. The awards will be presented Jan. 13 in Los Angeles.