[IMG:L]Both Rumer Willis, who was named Miss Golden Globe, and Steven Spielberg, who was chosen to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his “outstanding contribution to the entertainment field,” missed out on their chance last January when the 65th Annual Golden Globes was downsized to a press conference due to the writers’ strike.
So this Sunday is like a do-over for them.
As for Rumer Willis, traditionally, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Miss Golden Globe, who assists in the Golden Globes ceremony, is the offspring of a well-known celebrity. Previous Miss Golden Globe honorees include Lorraine Nicholson (daughter of Jack Nicholson and Rebecca Broussard), Laura Dern (daughter of Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern), and Melanie Griffith (daughter of Tippi Hedren).
Rumer, 20, is the daughter of two-time Golden Globe nominee Demi Moore and four-time Golden Globe nominee Bruce Willis, who won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical) for Moonlighting.
She was born Aug. 16, 1988 and currently resides in Southern California. She was named after British novelist Rumer Godden. She made her film debut at the age of five in the movie Now and Then. She continued acting alongside her parents in such films as Striptease, The Whole Nine Yards and Hostage.
After graduating high school, she attended USC for a few semesters, until she decided to pursue acting full time. Since spreading her acting wings, Rumer has completed two films of her own: House Bunny, opposite Anna Faris and Colin Hanks and the independent From Within, starring Adam Goldberg and Thomas Dekker.
Rumer feels like she’s pretty prepared for her upcoming role as Miss Golden Globe on Sunday. She’s had a full year to think about it. “I’m sure I’ll be able to walk up and down without tripping,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle.
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[IMG:L]Of course, the HFPA wouldn’t just hand Steven Spielberg his award last year without the fanfare he deserves.
One of the industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, Spielberg has directed, produced, or executive produced some of the top-grossing films of all time, including Jurassic Park and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana Jones series, including the most recent Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Among his myriad honors, he is a three-time Academy Award winner, earning two Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for Schindler’s List, and a third Oscar for Best Director for Saving Private Ryan.
Spielberg has also received six Golden Globes: for Best Director for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, for Best Motion Picture (Drama) for E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan; and for Best Foreign Language Film for Letters From Iwo Jima.
Born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Spielberg was raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona. He started making amateur films while still in his teens, later studying film at California State University, Long Beach. In 1969, his 22-minute short Amblin (which became the name of his original production company) was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival, which led to his becoming the youngest director ever to be signed to a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio.
Four years later, he directed the suspenseful telefilm Duel, which garnered both critical and audience attention. He made his feature film directorial debut on The Sugarland Express from a screenplay he co-wrote.
Spielberg has also devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic causes. The impact of his experience making Schindler’s List, led him to establish the Righteous Persons Foundation using all his profits from the film. He also founded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which has recorded more than 52,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies.
In 2005, the Foundation’s repository of testimonies were transferred to the University of Southern California. The new USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education will be dedicated to research and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
In addition, Spielberg is the chairman emeritus of the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation, which combines the efforts of pediatric health care, technology and entertainment to empower seriously ill children.
Recent Cecil B. DeMille winners include Warren Beatty (2007), Anthony Hopkins (2006) and Robin Williams (2005).
