He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Ticket to Paradise (2022).Īs of 2023, Clooney is one of two people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories, a position shared with Walt Disney. He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana (2005), and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). Greater stardom came from his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean 's film series from 2001 to 2007.Ĭlooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), and has since directed the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), and the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020). Russell's Three Kings, and the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). followed by superhero film Batman & Robin (1997), Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), David O. He expanded to leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk till Dawn (1996). Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Ĭlooney started his career in television, gaining wide recognition in his role as Dr. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2022.

He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards one for his acting and the other as a producer. George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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