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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his work in blockbusters and independent films, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and four Golden Globe Awards. His honors include the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Clooney started acting in television in the late 1970s and later gained wide recognition as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He expanded to leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), followed by Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Greater stardom came from his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from 2001 to 2007. 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). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022). Clooney 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), the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020) and the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). As of 2023, he is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. Clooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also noted for his political and economic activism. He has been one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Clooney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his work in blockbusters and independent films, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and four Golden Globe Awards. His honors include the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Clooney started acting in television in the late 1970s and later gained wide recognition as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He expanded to leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), followed by Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Greater stardom came from his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from 2001 to 2007. 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). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022). Clooney 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), the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020) and the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). As of 2023, he is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. Clooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also noted for his political and economic activism. He has been one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Clooney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
The Graham Norton Show
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Daily Show
Friends
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
Parkinson
Today
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Kennedy Center Honors
Roseanne
Entertainment Tonight
Hunter
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Celebrities Uncensored
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
100 Years of Warner Bros.
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Biography
The Last Movie Stars
Murphy Brown
Crazy like a Fox
South Park
E/R
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Downton Abbey
Comic Relief
The Golden Girls
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
The Flash
The Oscars
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
ER
IF
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
The Thin Red Line
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
The Facts of Life
Spy Kids
Despicable Me 4
Catch-22
A Very Murray Christmas
The Ides of March
Tomorrowland
Gravity
Bodies of Evidence
Ticket to Paradise
The Perfect Storm
Money Monster
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Peacemaker
Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Twelve
Out of Sight
Batman & Robin
The American
Ocean's Thirteen
Michael Clayton
Intolerable Cruelty
The Midnight Sky
The Descendants
From Dusk Till Dawn
Up in the Air
Solaris
Wolfs
Production Credits
The Ides of March
K Street
The Boys in the Boat
Suburbicon
The American
The Midnight Sky
Ticket to Paradise
The Agency: Central Intelligence
Catch-22
Unscripted
Michael Clayton
Wolfs
Far from Heaven
Trial by Media
Insomnia
The Tender Bar
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Argo
The Art of Political Murder
Money Monster
Ocean's Eight
The Informant!
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