Jodie Foster to be presented with The Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globe Awards

LOS ANGELES — Jodie Foster is adding a new trophy to her collection – a lifetime-achievement honor at the Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday that Foster will receive the group's Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th annual Globes ceremony on Jan. 13. Foster, 49, is a two-time Globes and Academy Award winner. She was honored with leading actress trophies at both ceremonies for 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" and 1988's "The Accused," which she won in a three-way tie at the Globes with Sigourney Weaver for "Gorillas in the Mist" and Shirley MacLaine for "Madame Sousatzka." DeMille Award winners are chosen by the board of directors for the foreign press group. It includes about 90 reporters who cover Hollywood for overseas outlets. "Jodie is a multifaceted woman that has achieved immeasurable amounts of success and will continue to do so in her career," said HFPA president Aida Takla-O'Reilly. "Her ambition, exuberance and grace have helped pave the way for budding artists in this business. She's truly one of a kind." Foster has appeared in more than 40 films. She began her career at 3 years old, starring in a Coppertone commercial, and went on to act in such movies as "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Taxi Driver," "Nell," "The Brave One" and "Carnage." She also directed the films "Little Man Tate," "Home for the Holidays" and "The Beaver." Her next role is as a government official in director Neil Blomkamp's sci-fi saga "Elysium" with Matt Damon. The announcement was made Thursday by Takla-O'Reilly, "The Mentalist" star Simon Baker and Kristen Stewart, who appeared with Foster in 2002's "The Panic Room." The DeMille Award went to Morgan Freeman earlier this year. Past winners include Robert De Niro, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood. The Globes, Hollywood's second-biggest movie awards after the Oscars, will air live on NBC next year.

Lifetime achievement? Is she even 50 yet?
Anonymous
That is fucking ridiculous.
Chick-a-pea-nay-nay! Tay in deh mend!
Nell
She's not but neither was Heston when he receieved it. She's a few years away from a 50 year career.
She's 49, R1. Well she's a woman you know. Their expiration dates in Hollywood come sooner than the men.
Forgot to add, does this mean her career is officially over?
No, she has two directing projects coming out and she has a big blockbuster coming out this upcoming summer with Matt Damon and his butt.
For what!? This is ridiculous. Like Jodie, but this award is premature.
I thought Tom Hanks would get it this year. Sure, he's been in some crappy films recently, but he's still thought of highly in the Hollywood Community.
Mia
She is a favorite of the foreign press and has been working for 47 years! She will also lend some class to what is really just a drunken party.
Aren't Golden Globes for sale, basically?
I am happy for her, that is a great and continuing body of work, but boy, do I feel old!
10 years older than Jodie...
She's barely been in any good movies. And Taxi Driver is grossly overrated and juvenile, it's okay, but it's no work of art. Silence of the Lambs, a great 'Hollywood' movie, is still her best. She blew the clout she received after making that movie in order to make boring, mainstream, feminist movies. Her career has been a big, long disappoint with boring roles year after year. She's certainly a limited actress, but hit pay dirt with SOTL. Clarice fit her personality.
TAXI DRIVER is a beautifully crafted movie. And she's wonderful and completely realistic as the teen prostitute.
R14, I agree that Jodie was great, but I don't really care for the movie. Perhaps De Niro in particular. I've never liked De Niro. The role called for him to be troubled, incendiary, and haunted, he did none of those thing. De Niro is enormously overrated. There was nothing compelling about his performance to me.
R13
Jodie has been working since she was a child. Of course she deserves the award.
Yes, she's been working hard for a very long time, but how many are her movies are good? Not many.
She has a lot of good movies. Bugsey Malone, Freaky Friday, Taxi Driver, Alice doesn't live here anymore, Little Girl Down The lane, Contact, SOTL, The Accused etc. She's also been in some movies that may have not worked as a whole but SHE gave a good-to-great performance. Actors that last as long as she has do this. They can come up from the sub-par material At the risk of being made fun of, I give special mention to Foxes and Candleshoe. I loved those two growing up.
Since movies are subjective, I won't bother to argue with you R17, but you can say that about 98% of everyone working in Hollywood. Fun fact - Judy Garland got hers at 39!
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Jodie deserves it for Contact, Silence of the Lambs, The Accused, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, and Taxi Driver.
Maybe you are right based on her performances alone, but TLGWLDTL, The Accused, and Contact are all bad movies.
In spite of her reputation, she's one of the dumbest cunts in Hollywood. A lesbian who made the most homophobic blockbuster of all time. A woman who defends Mel Gibson. One wonders just what they did teach her at Yale. She makes Lindsay Lohan look like Marie Curie.
R18, When I was a little kid I thought Jodie's character in Candleshoe was a boy. Gender may have confused me a little, but it seemed like there was a spark between Jodie and the other lead girl. How people didn't realize she was a jr. dyke back then is astounding.
[quote]A lesbian who made the most homophobic blockbuster of all time. Which is?
I thought so too r23. There was some good tension between the older girl and Jodie, at least in my mind. Remember their fight in the lake? I do.
Jodie deserves the award for "Contact" alone.
"Maybe you are right based on her performances alone, but TLGWLDTL, The Accused, and Contact are all bad movies" You are wrong, R21.
Jodie is definitely talented, but she didn't utilize her capabilities correctly and didn't do stuff that could have showcased her specific skill set. No passion in her roles(accept for Silence). Her past life and issues make her trapped in certain mindsets where she feels she has do do certain thematic material. Her mom really screwed her up enormously, and this influences her work and more importantly her life to this day, although Jodie will never say a bad word about her mom. Jodie's mom tried to turn Jodie into the ultimate feminist crusader, and put her into inappropriate roles. She didn't get to be a kid, Jodie has even admitted she was leaned on heavily being the family support and bread winner at a very early age. Her mom is a monster, even if her relationship with Jodie is pleasant. I feel sorry for Jodie, her success and fortune came at a major cost. She's a mess, even if she seems very controlled and in charge. Actually, the controlling nature is part of her issues. Stage moms ARE monsters.
It's a horrible movie, R26.
[quote]It's a horrible movie, [R26]. That's your opinion, most of us love this film.
She better make a good speech and she better stand up for what is right. If she doesn't, she's through.
Stand up for what?
Its a Lifetime Achivement Award, she's not running for Congress.
Most of 'who' love Contact?
Jodie lost her looks, she looks too severe. She doesn't looks soft or pretty.
Contact was good up until the end. In any case, I know I've read somewhere that Jodie is not a huge fan of Contact.
R35 - She looks very good for 49. She does need to not get too skinny. R36 - Source?
[quote]"Jodie is a multifaceted woman [bold]that[/bold] has achieved immeasurable amounts of success and will continue to do so in her career," That's just wrong.
Her contributions to film include: Getting raped on a pinball machine Being the world's worst prostitute Slinking around in ugly pantsuits
W&W for R39!
I liked her that Denzel Washington film but I liked Denzel and Clive Owen better.
Didn't she graduate from Harvard with honors?
Is her mom still alive?
First at Yale r42
R42 - yale.
[quote]She makes Lindsay Lohan look like Marie Curie. Cuz we both got our glow on!
LoLo
Her mother is still alive. I find she is a humorless untalented actress.
For the most part I agree, R47. She's riding on the reputation from one movie for the past 20 plus years.
Jo should retire.
R13 knows nothing about good cinema. Taxi Driver is a near perfect film and DeNiro is incredible in it.
I can already hear the self-righteous and humorless speech and see the awkward shot of Spielberg when she thanks "Mel".
She made one film with Mel, why did she feel so attached to him? Susan Sarandan worked with him and said he was to the right of Atilla The Hun. I don't know how to spell Atilla The Hun.
"She's also been in some movies that may have not worked as a whole but SHE gave a good-to-great performance." Yes indeed. FIVE CORNERS is the prime example.
She's almost as bad as Whoopi Goldberg in defending her asshole celebrity friends. And that self indulgent essay on Kristen Stewart's cheating scandal just showed how out of touch and full of her own ego she is.
Taxi Driver is a great film, she and DeNiro are perfect- it is a devasting movie in my opinion. I love how people talk about a supremely successful film actress and director as if she is an idiot (whose career is far from finished). What would that make those posters if they are not Steve Jobs, or JD Rockefeller, or Churchill, or Queen Eliz I, or Plato or Jesus Christ? I wonder what film it is she made that is the most homophobic of all time as posted?
charlie
I kind of hope the audience will be sufficiently tanked by the time she gets on the stage and starts to wax endlessly and humorlessly about her great career.
People love Contact??? I couldn't wait for that movie to end. I almost walked about halfway through and I've NEVER walked out of a movie.
It's truly a sad day when a thread with the name JODIE FOSTER struggles to get to 100 posts in a single day. I recall the good old days when the mere mention of her name brought out the most crazed lesbian slash fiction ever to spill out onto a page.
Truly, her pussy has no power here anymore.
Contact was Jodie's best film. Why don't you go back and watch your Transformers?
[quote]I love how people talk about a supremely successful film actress and director as if she is an idiot (whose career is far from finished). What would that make those posters if they are not Steve Jobs, or JD Rockefeller, or Churchill, or Queen Eliz I, or Plato or Jesus Christ? Well this is DL, Charlie. Elswhere online the majority of people have positive things to say. Whether people like her or her movies, there's no denying she's an enduring name and is unlikely to go quietly into obscurity.
is she back with the longterm partner? wonder if she will thank her?
She was also good in The Hotel New Hampshire.
Jodie Foster's only good role in the past ten years was in The Brave One (though, the role was not much of a stretch for her). She miscast herself in The Beaver, which suffered from stiff and humorless direction (I would say she completely missed the tone of the material she was directing, which is not exactly a sign of good creative instincts or intelligence). Once actresses like Kidman and Blanchett and Lynney came onto the scene, Foster started to look like a relic who didn't know how to or didn't want to reinvent herself. She belongs to the Hollywood system. Sadly that's where her greatest limitation comes from.
Contact is rendered null and void by: A) Matthew Mccaughnahey suddenly shows up in D.C. Wearing large scarf and pontificating. B) crazed "movie villain" Jake Busey who looks ready to twirl his mustache and arch an eyebrow. C) the second transporter in Japan (and the audience groans) D) ending with daddy on beach - lame and trite
She's been working forever. She deserves it
I totally agree, r65.