In January of 2018, Oprah Winfrey became the first Black woman to be honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Golden Globe Awards. The award, which is bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizes outstanding contributions by entertainers. Winfrey received the award for her work in the motion picture The Color Purple (1985) as well as her accomplishments as a talk show host, television producer, and creator across other forms of media. After a tumultuous childhood, Winfrey began her career in news television and radio talk shows before transitioning to television talk shows in Chicago in the early 1980s. The Oprah Winfrey Show rose to national prominence in the mid-1980s. Its success enabled Winfrey to conduct celebrity interviews, publish books, produce several television shows and movies, endorse Barack Obama for president in 2008, and use her platform to explore deeper themes for the American public.