Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Viola Davis will be honored with the Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille award, joining the ranks of icons Walt Disney, Robert Redford and Oprah Winfrey.

The Golden Globes have chosen actress Viola Davis as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Viola Davis became one of Hollywood's most revered actors through an array of powerful roles, from “ Fences ” to “ The Woman King,” and now her decorated career has earned her one of the Golden Globes' highest honors. Davis will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 82nd annual awards ceremony on Jan 5, the Golden Globes announced Wednesday morning. The actor has won praise for a string of compelling characters in films such as “The Help,” “ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ” and “Doubt,” while captivating TV audiences through the legal thriller drama “How to Get Away with Murder.”Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne called Davis a “luminary,

Viola Davis will be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in 2025.