The Big Picture: George Clooney Career & Biographical Notes: Tried out for the Cincinatti Reds Appeared in a lesser-known television series called E/R, featuring Elliot Gould Starred in The Peacemaker, DreamWorks' first feature film Still trying to talk Soderbergh into doing a remake of Return of the Killer Tomatoes!

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• Descendants, The
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• George Clooney Movie Roles
• Gravity
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• Ocean's 11
• Ocean's 13
• Out of Sight
• That's Not My Movie (Directors Edition)
• Tomorrowland
• Up in the Air

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Up in the Air	12/4/09	R			30.83	Info
Fantastic Mr. Fox	11/13/09	PG			18.38	Info
The Men Who Stare at Goats	11/6/09	R			31.95	Info
Burn After Reading	9/12/08	N/A
Leatherheads	4/4/08				23.17	Info
Michael Clayton	10/5/07	R			33.93	Info
Ocean's Thirteen	6/8/07	PG-13	3565	36.13	36.13	Info
The Good German	12/15/06		5	0.08	1.29	Info
Syriana	11/23/05	R	5	0.37	50.68	Info
Good Night, and Good Luck	10/7/05	PG	11	0.42	29.48	Info
Ocean's Twelve	12/10/04	PG-13	3290	39.15	125.53	Info
Intolerable Cruelty	10/10/03	PG-13	2564	12.53	35.10	Info
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	7/25/03	PG	3344	33.42	111.76	Info
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	12/31/02		1769	5.83	15.94	Info
Solaris	11/27/02		2406	6.75	14.97	Info
Ocean's Eleven	12/7/01	PG-13	3075	38.11	183.41	Info

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Awards:

2007
Michael Clayton

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Actor, National Board of Review
• Win: Best Actor, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association
• Runner-up: Best Actor, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-up: Best Actor, Dallas Fort Worth Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Chicago Film Critics

2005
Good Night, and Good Luck

• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Director, Phoenix Film Critics Society
• Win: Best Original Screenplay, Kansas City Film Critics
• Win: Best Screenplay, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Win: Best Screenplay, San Francisco Film Critics Circle
• Win: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Win: Best Original Screenplay, Online Film Critics Association
• Win: Best Original Screenplay, Golden Satellites
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Southeastern Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Original Screenplay, Writers' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Screenplay, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Online Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Southeastern Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Spirit Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Directors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Director, Golden Satellites

Syriana

• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Southeastern Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards

2002
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

• Runner-Up: Best Director, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards

Solaris

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards

2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

• Win: Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards

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