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WEEK IN WOMEN: Golden Globes Honors Ellen DeGeneres – Brandy McDonnell reports

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Ellen DeGeneres will receive the Carol Burnett Award at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has named DeGeneres the second recipient of the award, which Burnett received at the 2019 Golden Globes ceremony.

A three-time Golden Globe nominee, DeGeneres will accept the honor at at the 2020 ceremony, which airs live Sunday night on NBC.

Chosen by the HFPA board of directors, the Carol Burnett Award is presented to “an honoree who has made outstanding contributions to the television medium on or off the screen.”

It’s the television equivalent of the Golden Globes’ film prize the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which will be presented to Tom Hanks a this year’s ceremony on January 5 in Beverly Hills. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.