Jane Fonda will receive Cecil B. DeMille Award at this year's Golden Globes

If there were a queen of Hollywood, there is no doubt that it should, could and would be one Jane Fonda – actress, activist, environmentalist, former model and iconic aerobics instructor.

It seems the Golden Globe Awards have also finally recognized this truth, having announced Tuesday that Fonda will be receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award (and really, the only Golden Globe worth having) at this year's ceremony. With seven Oscar nominations (two of which she won), 15 Golden Globe nominations (seven of which she won), an Emmy Award, an honorary Palme d'Or, an AFI Life Achievement Award and having been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, it's likely this is a mere drop in the bucket for the 83-year-old. But why not make a little room on the shelf?

In a statement, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Ali Sar said, “The Hollywood Foreign Press Association takes great pride in bestowing the 2021 Cecil B. DeMille Award to Jane Fonda. For more than five decades, Jane’s breadth of work has been anchored in her unrelenting activism, using her platform to address some of the most important social issues of our time. Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition, and while her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained. We are honoured to celebrate her achievements at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards.”

Same!

By the way, Fonda won her first Golden Globe all the way back in 1962 for Most Promising Newcomer, a category that no longer exists, but a win that makes her latest achievement every bit full circle. 

The previous recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award was fellow perfect human Tom Hanks, who was preceded by the similarly beloved Jeff Bridges, Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep and, years before, Walt Disney, Judy Garland and none other than the late Henry Fonda, Jane's father, in 1980 – to name a few. 

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The timing for Fonda's award feels especially right, too, with the past year having seen such political and social turmoil. In fact, true to the time and her nature, Fonda herself was proudly arrested for the fifth time in late 2019 while participating in a climate-change protest at Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Hill.

At the time, she wrote on her website, "I will be on the Capitol every Friday, rain or shine, inspired and emboldened by the incredible movement our youth have created." And in 2020, she released a book – What Can I Do?: My Path From Climate Despair to Action – chronicling her decades-long work as an activist.

As renowned for her films – Klute, Coming Home, On Golden Pond, The China Syndrome, 9 to 5, the list really does go on – as her activism, Fonda has achieved legend status for a number of things, but it's her efforts to see change and the haircuts and mugshot that defined it that have kept her at the top. One wonders just how powerful her acceptance speech will be come Globes night.  

Fonda currently stars in Netflix's Grace and Frankie, though you'll likely see her next at a protest near you. Well, that, or this year’s Golden Globes, which will air on February 28, and will be hosted by the incomparable duo that is Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. 

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