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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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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Oscars
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Daily Show
Golden Globe Awards
Friends
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
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
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Biography
Murphy Brown
South Park
Crazy like a Fox
E/R
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Downton Abbey
The Golden Girls
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman
The Flash
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 Last Movie Stars
Gravity
Batman & Robin
The Ides of March
Bodies of Evidence
Tomorrowland
Ticket to Paradise
Ocean's Thirteen
Ocean's Twelve
Wolfs
Intolerable Cruelty
Money Monster
The Peacemaker
The Descendants
Ocean's Eleven
From Dusk Till Dawn
Solaris
Out of Sight
Up in the Air
The American
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Midnight Sky
The Perfect Storm
Michael Clayton
Production Credits
Michael Clayton
The Agency: Central Intelligence
Trial by Media
The Tender Bar
The Informant!
Argo
The Boys in the Boat
Catch-22
Suburbicon
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Unscripted
Money Monster
Wolfs
Insomnia
Far from Heaven
The Ides of March
The Midnight Sky
The American
Ticket to Paradise
Ocean's Eight
K Street
The Art of Political Murder
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