De Niro to receive Golden Globe lifetime achievement

Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro is to receive the Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes next year.

The Taxi Driver and Raging Bull star (67) will collect the prize at the 2011 awards, to be held on 16 January.

Making the announcement, actor Kevin Spacey described De Niro as being "universally acknowledged as one of the greatest actors of all time".