The presenters for the 70th Golden Globe Awards to be held this weekend were announced Tuesday morning with "Django Unchained" star Kerry Washington and comedian Will Ferrell heading the list.

Nathan Fillion (the star of the series Scandal), Jason Statham (Parker), Jennifer Lopez, Kristen Wiig (SNL), Jeremy Renner (Hansel and Gretel) and Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables) are also going to present awards on January 13 at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced on its website today.

The event will be hosted by Golden Globe nominees Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and the special award of the night, the Cecil B. de Mille Award, will be given to actress Jodie Foster to honor talented individuals who have made an incredible impact on the world of entertainment. Previous recipients of the award include Morgan Freeman, Lucile Ball, Bette Davis, Walt Disney, Harrison Ford, Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, Frank Sinatra, Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand among many others.

The Golden Globe Awards usually drive an enormous amount of viewers to the telecast. In January 2012, the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards delivered the highest 18-49 ratings for NBC the networks' biggest overall audience (16.9 million) in the time period, excluding sports, since the prior year's Golden Globes telecast.

The 2012 edition of the awards was also the highest 18-49 and total-viewer figures for ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox in the time period, excluding sports, in more than 10 months, since the prior year's Academy Awards on ABC, according to the HFPA.

The telecast improved on NBC's time-period average during the prior season by 138 percent in 18-49 rating (5.0 vs. 2.1, "live plus same day" non-sports) and 163 percent in total viewers (16.9 million vs. 6.4 million).