Freeman to get SAG life award in 2018

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES

Morgan Freeman will receive the SAG Life Achievement Award at next year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony.

The actors union announced Freeman will accept its highest honor Jan. 21, 2018.

The 80-year-old Freeman already has received lifetime achievement prizes from the American Film Institute and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, among many other acting accolades. He has been nominated five times for an Academy Award and won for his performance in 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby.”

Freeman’s voice is among the most recognizable in entertainment.