LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks are among the nearly 50 celebrities lined up to present awards on Monday, when the 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony is held at the Beverly Hilton hotel, organizers here said.
Oscar-winner Hanks will present director and actor Warren Beatty with this year's Cecil B. DeMille Award, a lifetime award given for "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field," according to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which presents the Globes.
Meanwhile, Miss Golden Globe Lorraine Nicholson, Jack Nicholson's 16-year-old daughter, will assist presenters at the awards show. Lorraine appeared in the Adam Sandler movie "Click" and in "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement."
Other presenters at the gala night include Dustin Hoffman, George Clooney, Drew Barry more, Sharon Stone and Hilary Swank.
Although the Hollywood stars will go home without lavish gifts this year, all of the roughly 1,200 attendee will get tax-free goodie bags worth about 600 dollars each. The HFPA recently settled a tax case stemming from giving away expensive gift bags on which taxes were unpaid.
Officials have decided to forge the traditional gift baskets for presenters at the Golden Globes show due to the federal Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) recent crackdown on award show swag, entertainment media reports said.
This move comes after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Oscars organizer, announced that it had settled up with the IRS for past swag until 2005, and would no longer give the usual "freebies" to Oscar presenters.
The IRS also said that the HFPA had to pay back taxes on gift baskets given out in 2004 and 2005, but there was no reports on just how much the IRS collected from the awards organizers.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood will celebrate an entertainment milestone as the first actor and director respectively, with two nominations in the same category in Golden Globes' history.
But leading in nominations is "Babel," which is up for seven awards, including best motion picture in the drama category and for best director, followed by the mob story "The Departed," with six nominations, including DiCaprio's for best actor in a motion picture drama. DiCaprio's other best actor nomination is for "Blood Diamond."
Eastwood is nominated for best director twice -- for "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima," both based on the World War II battle for the Pacific volcanic island of Iwo Jima between the U.S. and Japanese forces.
The fact that "Letters from Iwo Jima" and Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto," both from the United States, are nominated in the best foreign language film category is also rare in the awards' history. They will compete with "The Lives of Others" from Germany, "Pan's Labyrinth" from Mexico and "Volver" from Spain.
