The
Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary
Golden Globe Award bestowed by the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment". It was first presented on February 21, 1952 at the
9th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony and is named in honor of its first recipient, director
Cecil B. DeMille. Honorees are selected by the HFPA board of directors and are presented annually (except for 1976 and 2008). The first woman to receive the honor was
Judy Garland in 1962 who, at 39 years of age, was also the youngest honoree ever to receive the award, while
Samuel Goldwyn, at the age of 93, in 1973, was the oldest. The first African-American to receive the honor was
Sidney Poitier in 1982.