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George Clooney
Clooney at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Born	George Timothy Clooney May 6, 1961 (1961-05-06) (age 48) Lexington, Kentucky
Occupation	Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1978–present
Spouse(s)	Talia Balsam (1989-1993)

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award. Clooney is noted for parlaying his celebrity into social activism and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.¹²³

Though he made his acting debut on television in 1978, Clooney gained fame and recognition by portraying Dr. Douglas "Doug" Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999. While working on ER, he started attracting a variety of leading roles in films including Batman & Robin (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), where he first teamed with long-term collaborator Steven Soderbergh. In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, Ocean's Eleven, the first of a profitable film trilogy. He made his directorial debut a year later with the 2002 biographical thriller Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and has since directed films such as Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and Leatherheads (2008). He won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005).

Clooney's humanitarian work includes his advocacy of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims, and creating documentaries such as Sand and Sorrow to raise awareness about international crises. Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (née Warren), was a former beauty pageant queen; his father, Nick, is a anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host. Clooney is of Irish descent; his paternal great-great grandparents, Nicolas Clooney (of County Kilkenny) and Bridget Byron, immigrated to the United States from Ireland.⁴⁵⁶⁷ He has an older sister, Adelia (also known as Ada), and his cousins include actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer, who are the sons of his aunt, singer Rosemary Clooney, and actor José Ferrer. She is also related to another singer, Debby Boone, who married Joshua and Dafidal son, Gabriel Ferrer. From an early age, Clooney would hang around his father's sets, often participating in shows, where he proved to be a crowd favorite.

Clooney began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. Spending part of his childhood in Ohio, he attended St. Michael's School in Columbus, and St. Susanna School in Mason, Ohio. In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a debilitating condition that partially paralyzes the face. The malady went away within a year. "That was the worst time of my life," he told the Mirror in 2003. "You know how cruel kids can be. I was mocked and taunted, but the experience made me stronger."

Her parents eventually moved to Augusta, Kentucky, where Clooney attended Augusta High School. He has stated that he earned all As and a B in school,⁸ and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977 to play professional baseball, but was not offered a contract. He did not pass the first round of player cuts.⁹ He attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981 majoring in History and Political Science and, very briefly, the University of Cincinnati, but did not graduate from either. He had such odd jobs as selling men's suits and cutting tobacco.¹⁰

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Early roles 1.2 Initial success 1.3 Awards 1.4 Movie career 1.5 Other ventures 2 Personal life 2.1 Girlfriends and marriage 2.2 2007 motorcycle accident 2.3 Pets 2.4 Leatherheads controversy 2.5 Charlton Heston controversy 3 Politics and advocacy 3.1 Save Darfur 4 Filmography 4.1 Actor 4.2 Director 4.3 Producer 5 References 6 External links

Career

Early roles

His first role was as an extra in the TV series, Centennial in 1978. The series was based on the novel of the same name by James Michener and was partially filmed in Clooney's hometown of Augusta, Kentucky. Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived sitcom E/R (not to be confused with ER, the better-known hospital drama, on which Clooney also costarred a decade later). He played a handyman on the series The Facts of Life. He played Bobby Hopkins, a detective on an episode of The Golden Girls. His first significant break was a semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne Barr's overbearing boss Booker Brooks, followed by the role of a construction worker on Baby Talk and then as a sexy detective on Sisters. In 1988, Clooney also played a role in Return of the Killer Tomatoes.

Initial success

Clooney achieved stardom when he was selected to play Dr. Doug Ross, opposite Anthony Edwards's and Noah Wyle's character on the hit NBC drama ER from 1994 to 1999 and returned for a guest spot in the show's 15th and final season. Clooney was also partnered with Deborah Leoni in their production company Mirador Entertainment.

Clooney began in movies while appearing in ER, his first major Hollywood role being From Dusk till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez. He followed its success with One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman, the latter being the initial feature length release from Dreamworks SKG studio. Clooney was then cast as the new Batman¹¹ (succeeding Val Kilmer, who in turn, had succeeded Michael Keaton) in Batman & Robin, which was a moderate box office success, but a critical failure (with Clooney himself calling the film "a waste of money"). In 1998, he starred in Out of Sight, opposite Jennifer Lopez. This was the first of many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh. He also starred in Three Kings during the last weeks of his contract with ER.

In 1999, Clooney left the cast of ER to pursue his film career, returning only for two cameo appearances in the 6th and again in its 15th and final season.¹²

Awards

In 2010 George clooney was awarded the "Largest D-Bag of the Millenium Award" as well as the "Most Pathetic Actor of the Decade" award. He currently resides in San Francisco with his husband Ronaldo (Sweetwood) Cheeks.

Movie career

After leaving ER, Clooney starred in major Hollywood successes, such as The Perfect Storm and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. In 2001, he teamed up with Soderbergh again for Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name. To this day, it remains Clooney's most commercially successful movie, earning more than $444 million worldwide. The film spawned two sequels starring Clooney, Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007. In 2001, Clooney founded the production studio Section Eight with Steven Soderbergh.

He made his directorial debut in the 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, an adaptation of the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris. Though the movie didn't do well at the box office, Clooney's direction was praised among critics and audiences alike.

In 2005, Clooney starred in Syriana, which was based loosely on former Central Intelligence Agency agent Robert Baer and his memoirs of being an agent in the Middle East. The same year he directed, produced, and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck., a film about 1950s television journalist Edward R. Murrow's famous war of words with Senator Joseph McCarthy. Both films received critical acclaim and decent box-office returns despite being in limited release. At the 2006 Academy Awards, Clooney was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. He became the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for directing one movie and acting in another in the same year. He would go on to win for his role in Syriana.

Clooney appeared in The Good German, a film-noir directed by Soderbergh. The film is set in post-World War II Germany.

Clooney also received the American Cinematheque Award in October 2006, an award that honors an artist in the entertainment industry who has made "a significant contribution to the art of motion pictures".¹⁴ On January 22, 2008, Clooney was nominated for Best Actor for his role in Michael Clayton, but lost to Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood.

After the success of Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney said he planned to devote more of his energy to directing. Clooney directed the film Leatherheads, in which he also stars. Clooney is self-deprecating in interviews, telling STV in April 2008 that Leatherheads, one of his lightest movies, is a "cry for peace." In the same interview, when asked about reconciling George Clooney the actor and George Clooney the director, he said "there's a lot of ego there... so I just take it out on the actors."¹⁵

Clooney next co-starred with Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey in The Men Who Stare At Goats, which was directed by his friend Grant Heslov and released in November 2009. Also in November 2009 he voiced Mr. Fox in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. Clooney also starred in Up in the Air, which was initially given limited release, and then wide-released on December 25, 2009. It was directed by Juno helmer Jason Reitman. He has been nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for his performance in the film. And he also received a few critics' awards for it.

Clooney is represented by Bryan Lourd, Co-Chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

Other ventures

South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, invited Clooney to play a role in the show as the voice of Stan Marsh's gay dog Sparky in the episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", a role with no dialogue except normal dog noises. He later appeared in the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Despite their history, the show's creators, Parker and Stone, lampooned Clooney for his outspoken political views in their feature film Team America: World Police. However, Clooney later said that he would have been offended if he hadn't been made fun of in the film.¹⁶ He was also mentioned in the episode "Smug Alert!", which mocks his acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards.

On July 8, 2005, news reports said that Clooney would be working with Cindy Crawford's husband Rande Gerber to design and build a new casino hotel in Las Vegas. On August 29, the same year, Clooney officially announced his involvement with the Las Ramblas Resort project.¹⁷ However, the project never came to fruition, and the property on which the resort was to be built was sold in June 2006.

After serving as pitchman outside the US for products like Fiat, Nespresso and Martini vermouth, Clooney lent his voice to a series of Budweiser ads beginning in 2005 (which were still running as of September 2007). In September 2007, Clooney defended his work when asked by an Italian journalist, how he reconciled advertising multinational companies' products with the purpose of Michael Clayton, the film he was currently introducing in the Venice Films Festival.¹⁸

In August 2006, Clooney and Grant Heslov started a new company: Smokehouse Pictures. Heslov was the president of television at Section Eight Productions, Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh's production company. Clooney is creating and producing a television series for Showtime titled The Fall of Bob.

Clooney is one of only three people to have been given the title of "Sexiest Man Alive" twice by People Magazine, first in 1997 and again in 2006.¹⁹

In July 2008, Clooney was declared the worst Batman portrayed onscreen. "Batman should be obsessed and blindered […] but Clooney is all cool, ironic detachment and self-awareness." No comment has been heard from the actor.²⁰ However, he has publicly criticized his own portrayal of Batman several times.

Personal life

Girlfriends and marriage

Clooney has been married once, to Talia Balsam (1989–93). He had a five-year on/off relationship with British model Lisa Snowdon. Later on, his girlfriend was Sarah Larson; at that time, Clooney said that he would never marry again.²¹ In early 2009, an Indian newspaper speculated that Clooney was secretly dating Fatima Bhutto, the granddaughter of Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and also the niece of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto.²² Later in 2009, Clooney began dating Elisabetta Canalis.²³ He does however say that marriage isn't for him.²⁴

2007 motorcycle accident

On September 21, 2007, Clooney and girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken, New Jersey. Clooney's motorcycle was hit by a car. The driver of the car reported that Clooney attempted to pass on the right,²⁵ while Clooney stated that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and clipped the motorcycle. Clooney suffered a broken rib, road rash, and brain injury with complications resulting from a punctured dura.²⁶ He was treated and released from the Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, New Jersey.²⁷ On October 9, 2007, more than two dozen hospital staff members were suspended without pay for looking at Clooney's medical records in violation of federal law.²⁸ Clooney himself quickly issued a statement on the hospital records matter, saying no one should be punished. He said "This is the first I've heard of it. And while I very much believe in a patient's right to privacy, I would hope that this could be settled without suspending medical workers."²⁹

Pets

Clooney had a 280-pound Vietnamese black-bristled pot-bellied pig, named Max, that had lived with him for eighteen years. He initially gave him as a gift to former live-in girlfriend Kelly Preston but she let him keep Max after their break-up. Max died on December 1, 2006.³⁰ He also had two bulldogs, named Bud and Lou, after the famous comedy team Abbott and Costello. Both of the dogs have since died, one from a rattlesnake bite.³¹

Leatherheads controversy

It was reported on April 4, 2008 in Variety that Clooney had quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America over controversy surrounding Leatherheads. Clooney, who is the director, producer, and star of the film, stated that he had contributed in writing, "all but two scenes," of the film and requested a writing credit, alongside Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly, who had been working on the project for 17 years. In an arbitration vote, Clooney lost 2–1 and ultimately decided to withdraw from the union over the decision. Clooney is now technically a "financial core status" nonmember, meaning he loses his voting rights, and cannot run for office or attend membership meetings, according to the WGA's constitution. He must continue to pay his dues, but gets a break on "non-germane" WGA activities, such as political and lobbying efforts. His decision is also irrevocable. Beforehand, Clooney was an active member of the WGA, even receiving an Academy Award-nomination for writing Good Night and Good Luck.³² He is currently writing two screenplays with Grant Heslov.

Charlton Heston controversy

Michelle Solomon wrote in her article Celebrity Chatter: Up-Close With George Clooney, published in Staff Writer (2/3/03) "On the same day we spoke, headlines had just broke that Clooney was at a dinner for film awards and made what some people perceived as an inappropriate remark about Charlton Heston. As first reported by syndicated columnist Liz Smith, Clooney was speaking at a National Board of Review event and said: "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's." Recounting this, Clooney said, "It was a joke,... They got the quote wrong. What I said was 'The head of the NRA announced today ...' (Filmmaker) Michael Moore had just gotten an award. Anyway, Charlton Heston shows up with guns over his head after a school shooting and then says in the documentary it's because of ethnic diversity that we have problems with violence in America. I think he's going to have to take whatever hits he gets. It was just a joke. That was someone else trying to make a bigger story."³³ When asked if the actor went too far with his remarks, Clooney responded by saying, "I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves whatever anyone says about him."³⁴

Heston himself commented, "It just goes to show that sometimes class does skip a generation," referring to Clooney's aunt, Rosemary Clooney.³⁴ Heston further commented on the Clooney joke: "I don't know the man—never met him, never even spoken to him, but I feel sorry for George Clooney—one day he may get Alzheimer's disease. I served my country in World War II. I survived that—I guess I can survive some bad words from this fellow".³⁵ Clooney said he subsequently apologized to Heston in a letter, and that he received a positive response from Heston's wife.⁸

Politics and advocacy

Clooney is a self-described political liberal. Speaking about the Iraq war: "You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people seeking revenge. These days it only matters who's in charge. Right now that's us—for a while at least. Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win.... I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore."³⁶

Clooney is noted for his public criticisms of lobbyist Jack Abramoff. On January 16, 2006, during his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Syriana, Clooney paused to sarcastically thank Abramoff before adding, "Who would name their kid Jack with the word ‘off’ at the end of your last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up!"³⁷

There has been movement to try to convince Clooney to run for political office in his home state of Kentucky, including talk of a Clooney candidacy for US Senate against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2008.³⁸ In response, Clooney has said: "Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."³⁹ Clooney supported President Barack Obama during Obama's campaign run in the 2008 presidential election.⁴⁰ In January 2010 organized the Telethon Hope for Haiti Now⁴¹, which collects donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.⁴²

Save Darfur

Clooney is named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for "using star power to illuminate the crisis in Darfur." After making his first trip to Darfur in 2006, Clooney made the TV special A Journey to Darfur with his father Nick, and advocated for action in the US. Author Ishmael Beah writes: "He has used his fame to speak wholeheartedly for those who cannot speak, with genuine concern and insight and a deep commitment and selflessness that is rare but does not have to be."

Clooney is active in advocating a resolution of the Darfur conflict.⁴³ His efforts include an episode of Oprah and speaking at the Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2006.

In 2006, he was involved in several events to highlight the issue. In April, he spent ten days in Chad and Sudan with his father to make a film in order to show the dramatic situation of Darfur's refugees. In September, he spoke in front of the Security Council of the UN with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel to ask the UN to find a solution to the conflict and to help the people of Darfur.⁴⁴ In December, he made a trip to China and Egypt with Don Cheadle and two Olympic winners to ask both governments to pressure Sudan's government.⁴⁵

In 2006, Clooney and his father, journalist Nick Clooney, travelled to Darfur and filmed a documentary, A Journey to Darfur, which was broadcast on American cable TV as well as in the UK and France. In 2008, it was released on DVD with the proceeds from its sale being donated to the International Rescue Committee.^46474849

Clooney is involved with Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub.⁵⁰ He narrated and was co-executor producer of the documentary Sand and Sorrow.⁵¹

On March 25, 2007, he sent an open letter to German chancellor Angela Merkel, calling on the European Union to take "decisive action" in the region in the face of Omar al-Bashir's failure to respond to the UN resolutions.⁵² Clooney appeared in the documentary film Darfur Now, a call to action film for people all over the world to help stop the ongoing crisis in Darfur. The film was released on November 2, 2007.

On December 13, 2007, Clooney and fellow actor Don Cheadle were presented with the Summit Peace Award by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome. In his acceptance speech Clooney said that he and Cheadle "Don and I…stand here before you as failures. The simple truth is that when it comes to the atrocities in Darfur…those people are not better off now than they were years ago."⁵³⁵⁴

On January 18, 2008, the United Nations announced Clooney's appointment as a United Nations messenger of peace, effective from January 31.¹² In February 2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad with NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.⁵⁵

Filmography

Actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1984–85	E/R	Mark "Ace" Kolmar
1985	Street Hawk	Kevin Stark
1985–86	The Facts of Life	George Burnett
1987	Return to Horror High	Oliver
	Grizzly II: The Predator		Uncredited
	Combat Academy	Maj. Biff Woods
	Murder, She Wrote	Kip Howard	Episode: "No Laughing Murder"
	The Golden Girls	Detective Bobby Hopkins	Episode: "To Catch a Neighbor"
1988	Return of the Killer Tomatoes	Matt Stevens
1988–91	Roseanne	Booker Brooks	11 episodes
1988	Oliver & Company	Dodger	voice
1989	Red Surf	Remar
1992	Unbecoming Age	Mac
1993	The Harvest	Lip Synching Transvestite
1993–94	Sisters	Detective James Falconer
1994–99	ER	Dr. Doug Ross	106 episodes Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series, 1995, 1996 Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, 1995, 1996, 1997
1995	Friends	Dr. Michael Mitchell	Episode: "The One with Two Parts, Part Two"
1996	From Dusk till Dawn	Seth Gecko	MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Saturn Award for Best Actor
	One Fine Day	Jack Taylor
	Curdled	Seth Gecko	Uncredited; only photo shown
1997	Full-Tilt Boogie	Himself	Documentary
	The Peacemaker	Thomas Devoe
	Batman & Robin	Bruce Wayne/Batman
	South Park	Sparky the Dog	Voice only; episode: "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"
1998	The Thin Red Line	Captain Bosche
	Out of Sight	Jack Foley
	Waiting for Woody	Himself	Comedic short
1999	Three Kings	Major Archie Gates
	The Book That Wrote Itself	Himself
	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	Doctor Gouache	Voice only
	The Limey		Archive footage, uncredited
2000	The Perfect Storm	Billy 'Skip' Tyne
	Fail Safe	Col. Jack Grady
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Ulysses Everett McGill	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Empire Award for Best Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2001	Ocean's Eleven	Danny Ocean	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Dressed Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
	Spy Kids	Devlin
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	CIA Officer Jim Byrd	Also director
	Solaris	Chris Kelvin	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor
	Welcome to Collinwood	Jerzy	Also producer
	Starbuck Holger Meins		Documentary
2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Miles Massey
	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Devlin
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Danny Ocean	Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Fred Friendly	Golden Osella for Best Screenplay Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated — Academy Award for Writing (Original Screenplay) Nomination — BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Writer Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Director Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Nominated — Gotham Award for Best Cast Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay Nominated — Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
	Syriana	Bob Barnes	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
2006	The Good German	Jake Geismar
2007	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton	National Board of Review Award for Best Actor San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
	Darfur Now	Himself
	Ocean's Thirteen	Danny Ocean
2008	Leatherheads	Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly	Co-writer
	Burn After Reading	Harry Pfarrer
2009	ER	Dr. Doug Ross	Episode "Old Times"
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Mr. Fox	Voice only New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and Up in the Air
	The Men Who Stare At Goats	Lyn Cassady
	Up in the Air	Ryan Bingham	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Actor tied with Morgan Freeman for Invictus New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and Fantastic Mr. Fox Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated — San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nominated — Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

Director

Year	Title	Notes
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Nominated — Golden Bear Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association for Most Promising New Director
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Foreign Film Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Original Screenplay Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Screenplay Pasinetti Award for Best Film Nominated — Academy Award for Best Director Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Direction Nominated — Bodil Award for Best American Film Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Nominated — David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Nominated — Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director Nominated — Empire Award for Best Director Nominated — Golden Lion Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Director Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Director Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Director Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
	Unscripted	5 episodes
2008	Leatherheads
2011	Farragut North

Producer

Year	Title	Notes
1999	Kilroy	(TV) also writer
2000	Fail Safe	Executive producer
2001	Rock Star	Executive producer
2002	Insomnia	Executive producer
	Welcome to Collinwood	Executive producer
	Far from Heaven	Executive producer
2003	K Street	Executive producer, 10 episodes
2004	Criminal
2005	The Jacket
	Unscripted	5 episodes
	The Big Empty	Executive producer
	Syriana	Executive producer
	Rumor Has It...	Executive producer
2006	A Scanner Darkly	Executive producer
	Pu-239	Executive producer
2007	Michael Clayton	Executive producer
	Sand and Sorrow	Executive producer Documentary
	Wind Chill	Executive producer
2008	Leatherheads
2009	The Informant!	Executive producer
	Playground	Executive producer
	Men Who Stare At Goats
2010	Hope for Haiti Now	Producer

References

External links

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• George Clooney at the Internet Movie Database
• George Clooney at People.com
• George Clooney at TV.com
• George Clooney on Moviefone
• NPR interview 10/2005
• Text, Audio, and Video of Speech to the United Nations Security Council on Darfur
• George Clooney Public Service Announcement
• George Clooney calls for unity among actors
• Not On Our Watch: Official site for charity founded by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Jerry Weintraub, David Pressman

Preceded by Val Kilmer

Actors to portray Batman 1997

Succeeded by Bruce Thomas

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v â€¢ d â€¢ e Filmography of George Clooney Director Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)  Â· Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)  Â· Leatherheads (2008) Producer Rock Star (2001)  Â· Insomnia (2002)  Â· Welcome to Collinwood (2002)  Â· Far from Heaven (2002) Â· Criminal (2004) Â· The Jacket (2005) Â· Syriana (2005)  Â· Rumor Has It... (2005)  Â· A Scanner Darkly (2006) Â· Pu-239 (2006)  Â· Michael Clayton (2007)  Â· Sand and Sorrow (2007)  Â· Wind Chill (2007)  Â· Leatherheads (2008)  Â· The Informant! (2009)  Â· The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Production company Section Eight Productions

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NAME	Clooney, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Clooney, George Timothy
SHORT DESCRIPTION	actor, director, producer, screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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