Golden Globe honour for Robert De Niro

MUMBAI: Next year’s Golden Globe Awards will see veteran Robert De Niro being honoured with the Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. The actor will receive the honour at the ceremony on 16 January.

The veteran has been earlier nominated for eight Golden Globe Awards in both the comedy and drama categories. He won once for Raging Bull besides winning two Academy Awards (for Raging Bull and The Godfather: Part II) and also the Kennedy Center Honor.

De Niro is also being hailed for his contributions as a director, a producer through his Tribeca Productions and also as a co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, created to help revitalise lower Manhattan in New York after the September 11 2001 World Trade Center attacks.

Previous DeMille winners include Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, Steven Spielberg and last year‘s recipient, De Niro‘s longstanding friend and director Martin Scorsese. Ricky Gervais is to return as the ceremony‘s host.