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George Clooney’s achievements as a performer and filmmaker have earned him two Academy Awards^®, five Golden Globes^®, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, four SAG awards, a BAFTA award, two Critics’ Choice Awards, an Emmy^®, four National Board of Review Awards, and the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Films from his production company with Grant Heslov, Smokehouse Pictures, include Warner Bros’ Academy Award^®-winning drama Argo, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Midnight Sky, The Ides of March, Boys in the Boat, and Ticket to Paradise.

He has also starred in films such as Out of Sight, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Syriana, Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, The Descendants, Gravity, and the Oceans trilogy. 

Before his film career, Clooney starred in several television series, becoming best known to TV audiences for his five years on the hit NBC drama ER. His portrayal of Dr. Douglas Ross earned him Golden Globe^®, SAG, People’s Choice, and Emmy Award^® nominations.

Among the many honors received as a result of his humanitarian efforts was the 2007 Peace Summit Award, given at the eighth World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award. 

Clooney has produced three telethons: The Tribute to Heroes (post 9/11), Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope, and Hope for Haiti Now, the latter of which raised a record 66 million dollars from the public. 

In August of 2016, George and his wife Amal launched the Clooney Foundation for Justice.

Recent Kennedy Center history: George Clooney narrated the tribute for 2017 Kennedy Center Honoree Norman Lear.