Anthony Hopkins To Receive HFPA's Cecil B. DeMille Award At 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards to be Telecast Live on NBC on Jan. 16.

HOLLYWOOD -- Anthony Hopkins will be honored at next January's Golden Globe Awards telecast with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. The award, voted by the board of directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was announced today at a morning press conference by Geena Davis.

The DeMille Award will be presented to Hopkins at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held Monday, January 16, 2006, and telecast live on NBC (8-11 p.m. EST).

Hopkins received six Golden Globe nominations; including four as Best Actor (Drama) for "Nixon" (1995), "The Remains of the Day" (1993), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), and "Magic" (1978). He received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for "Amistad" (1997) and a nomination as Best Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made-for-Television for "The Tenth Man" (1988).

He received an Academy Award(R) for his performance in "The Silence of the Lambs" and was subsequently nominated in the same category for his performances in "The Remains of the Day" and "Nixon." He was also given the Best Actor Award by the British Academy of Film & Television Arts for "The Remains of the Day." In 1993, he starred in Richard Attenborough's "Shadowlands" with Debra Winger, winning numerous critics awards in the U.S. and Britain. In 1998, he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award(R) for his performance in "Amistad."

In 2001, Hopkins starred in the sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs," "Hannibal," in which he starred with Julianne Moore. Directed by Ridley Scott, the blockbuster film grossed over $100 million domestically. He also recorded the narration for the 2000 holiday season's hit film Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas."

In 1998, he starred in "Meet Joe Black," directed by Martin Brest and "Instinct," directed by Jon Turletaub, and in "Titus," Julie Taymor's film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" with Jessica Lange.

In 1992 he appeared in "Howard's End" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula" before starring in "Legends of the Fall" and "The Road to Wellville." He made his directorial debut in 1995 with "August," an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya for which he composed the musical score and also played Vanya. He starred in the title role in "Surviving Picasso" and with Alec Baldwin in "The Edge," a dramatic adventure written by David Mamet and directed by Lee Tamahori. "The Mask of Zorro," directed by Martin Campbell and co-starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, was released in July 1998, and "Amistad," directed by Stephen Spielberg, was released in December 1997.

Earlier films include "84 Charing Cross Road," "The Elephant Man," "Magic," and "A Bridge Too Far." "The Bounty" and "Desperate Hours" were his first two collaborations with Dino De Laurentis Company. In American television, he received two Emmy Awards for "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case" (1976) in which he portrayed Bruno Hauptmann and "The Bunker" (1981) in which he portrayed Adolph Hitler.

Born December 31, 1937, in Margum near Port Talbot Wales, he is the only child of Muriel and Richard Hopkins. His father was a banker. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School. At 17, he wandered into a YMCA amateur theater production and knew immediately that he was in the right place. With newfound enthusiasm, combined with proficiency at the piano, he won a scholarship to the Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff where he studied for two years (1955-1957).

He entered the British Army in 1958 for mandatory training, spending most of the two-year tour of duty clerking the Royal Artillery unit at Bulford.

In 1960, he was invited to audition for Sir Laurence Olivier, then director of the National Theater at the Old Vic. Two years later, Hopkins was Olivier's understudy in Strindberg's "Dance of Death." Hopkins made his film debut in 1967, playing Richard the Lionheart in "The Lion in the Winter," starring Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn. He received a British Academy Award nomination.

American television viewers discovered Hopkins in the 1973 ABC production of Leon Uris' "QB VII," the first American mini-series, in which he played the knighted Polish-born British physician Adam Kleno who is ultimately destroyed by his wartime past. The following year, he starred on Broadway in the National Theatre production of "Equus" and later mounted another production of the play in Los Angeles where he lived for 10 years, working extensively in American films and television.

After starring as Captain Bligh in "The Bounty" (1984), he returned to England and the National Theater in David Hare's "Pravada," for which he received the British Theater Association's Best Actor Award and The Observer Award for Outstanding achievement at the 1985 Laurence Oliver Awards. During this time at the National he starred in "Antony and Cleopatra" and "King Lear."

Hopkins also appeared in the feature adaptation of Stephen King's "Hearts In Atlantis" for director Scott Hicks, the action comedy "Bad Company," co-starring Chris Rock, and the box-office hit prequel to "The Silence of the Lambs," "Red Dragon," co-starring Ed Norton, Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watkins.

Hopkins was recently seen in "The Human Stain" opposite Nicole Kidman, "Alexander" opposite Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie, directed by Oliver Stone; and "Proof" co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, directed by John Madden. Hopkins will next be seen in "The World's Fastest Indian," directed by Roger Donaldson and "All the King's Men" with Jude Law, Sean Penn and Kate Winslet, directed by Steven Zaillian.

Recent Cecil B. DeMille winners include Robin Williams (2005), Michael Douglas (2004), Gene Hackman (2003), Harrison Ford (2002), Al Pacino (2001), Barbra Streisand (2000), and Jack Nicholson (1999).

The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place Monday, January 16, 2006, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with a live telecast airing on NBC at 8 p.m. (EST) and produced by dick clark productions in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Philip Berk is President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Allen Shapiro and Barry Adelman are executive producers. Chris Donovan is director. Al Schwartz is consulting producer. Ken Shapiro is producer. Ron Weed is co-producer.