Ted Danson, 13-time nominee and three-time winner of Golden Globes, has been named the Carol Burnett Award honoree for 2025.
Created in 2019 and initially awarded to its namesake, the Carol Burnett Award is offered to an individual who has made excellent contributions to tv on or off display screen. The recipient is chosen primarily based on their physique of labor and the lasting influence of their tv profession achievements on each the business and audiences. Previous recipients embody Norman Lear, Ryan Murphy and Ellen DeGeneres.
Danson, together with 2025 Cecil B. DeMille Award winner, Viola Davis, might be honored at a gala dinner on Friday, January 3, 2025, on the Beverly Hilton Resort. This may mark the primary time that the Golden Globes will host a particular night devoted to those two awards. Danson and Davis may also be acknowledged on the 82nd Annual Golden Globes broadcast on Jan. 5.
“Ted Danson has entertained audiences for many years together with his performances that can perpetually be ingrained in tv historical past,” stated Helen Hoehne, president of the Golden Globes. “His profession is a testomony to his outstanding expertise and flexibility as an actor and bears resemblance to the award’s namesake. It’s an honor to current him with the 2025 Carol Burnett Award to have a good time the great influence he has made and continues to make in tv.”
Danson earned Golden Globes for the 1984 telefilm One thing About Amelia (efficiency by an actor in a restricted collection, anthology collection, or movement image made for tv) and for the NBC sitcom Cheers for 1989 and 1990 (efficiency by an actor in a tv collection — musical or comedy).
Danson is thought for an array of remarkable performances, and his function of Boston bartender Sam Malone on “Cheers,” which ran for 11 seasons. Extra just lately, Danson could be seen taking part in himself within the comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which simply concluded its twelfth and closing season on HBO. Danson additionally starred within the acclaimed NBC comedy “The Good Place,” for which he was nominated for his 14th Emmy Award for lead actor.
Beforehand, Danson starred in “Mr. Mayor,” an NBC comedy collection written and government produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. He additionally had a outstanding function within the second season of FX’s acclaimed collection “Fargo.” Different credit embody CBS’ long-running “CSI” and “CSI: Cyber,” FX’s “Damages” (taking part in tycoon Arthur Frobisher) and CBS’ “Becker” – the latter two roles for which he was Golden Globe nominated.
At the moment, Danson is starring within the Netflix comedy collection, “A Man on the Inside,” which was written and government produced by “The Good Place” creator, Mike Schur. Primarily based on the documentary “The Mole Agent,” the collection will comply with a retired man who will get a brand new lease on life when he solutions an advert positioned by a non-public investigator and goes undercover in a retirement house.
Danson’s movie appearances embody “Physique Warmth,” “Hearts Beat Loud,” “Three Males and a Child,” and its sequel, “Three Males and a Little Woman.” He additionally had a co-starring function in Steven Spielberg’s World Conflict II epic “Saving Personal Ryan.”
Danson graduated from Carnegie Mellon College with a bachelor of tremendous arts diploma in drama. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1978 to handle the Actor’s Institute and shortly after, earned a job in “The Onion Area” and likewise co-starred within the TV film “The Girls’s Room.” Along with appearing and producing, Danson is an environmental activist, co-founding the American Oceans Marketing campaign (AOC) in 1987 to alert Individuals to the life-threatening hazards created by oil spills, off-shore growth, poisonous wastes, sewage air pollution and different ocean abuses.
Danson, together with 2025 Cecil B. DeMille Award winner, Viola Davis, might be honored at a gala dinner on Friday, January 3, 2025, on the Beverly Hilton Resort. This may mark the primary time that the Golden Globes will host a particular night devoted to those two prestigious awards. Danson may also be acknowledged on the 82nd Annual Golden Globes® broadcast.
Hosted by Nikki Glaser, the Golden Globes will air Sunday, January 5, 2025 (8-11 PM, reside ET/5-8 PM, reside PT) on the CBS Tv Community, and stream on Paramount+ within the U.S. (reside and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Important subscribers the day after the particular airs).
Nominations for the Golden Globes might be introduced on Monday, December 9, 2024.