Cecil B. DeMille goes to Morgan Freeman

With so much Oscar news to report, It's kind of hard to take the time to comment on this little tidbit. But what the hell! If the Golden Globes are a mess outside of Ricky Gervais' repeated hosting gig, we can usually trust them to make good, if predictable, choices for who they hand out their honorary lifetime achievement award. This year, the Cecil B. DeMille award is heading out to Morgan Freeman, who is quite a good choice. The man is a unique actor, surely, though he has a reputation for getting his hands into some so-so projects across the years. Nevertheless, it took way too long for them to hand him an Oscar, and for the wrong project no less. The man is still wonderful, so how can you not be happy about this?

Robert De Niro To Recieve Cecil B. DeMille Award!

I have a very unhealthy relationship with the Golden Globes. While I like that they have a tendency to award the more mainstream films, I hate that they don't instead award better films. I think Robert Downey Jr. is great in Sherlock Holmes, but I don't think that any one can contest with the fact that Joseph Gordon Levitt should've won last year for (500) Days of Summer. Still, their choices for who to award the Cecil B. DeMille Award are nearly always deserving, but I sometimes worry that they are running out of old people. For the record, Morgan Freeman still has yet to receive the honor, but his time will come. For now, the honor belongs to one Robert De Niro, star of such films as The Godfather: Part II, Ranging Bull, and Machete. Alright, his work recently hasn't really been up to the epic quality of his past, but he's still got something left in him. I think he just needs to reteam with a legendary director and a great script, and he could surely reenter the arena. In any case, he's deserving of the award.