# List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney

The following is a List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney.
George Clooney is an American filmmaker and actor. Throughout his career he received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
Clooney has received eight Academy Award nominations, winning two—Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a veteran CIA officer in Syriana (2005) and as co-producer of Best Picture winner Argo (2012). He was previously Oscar-nominated for Best Actor for his performances as an attorney in Michael Clayton (2007), a suave businessman in Up in the Air (2009), a widow in The Descendants (2011). He was also nominated for Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), and Best Adapted Screenplay for The Ides of March (2011).
He is one of only three people ever to have been nominated in six different Academy Award categories (Best Picture; Best Director; Best Original Screenplay; Best Adapted Screenplay; Best Lead Actor; Best Supporting Actor), following Walt Disney and later joined by Alfonso Cuarón. (This record has since been surpassed by Kenneth Branagh, who has been nominated in seven different categories.)
On, television, he played Dr. Doug Ross in the NBC medical drama series ER from 1994 to 1999, he was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, thrice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, and twice for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series. He won four Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series alongside the cast in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.
Over his career he has received several honors including the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2010, the Stanley Kubrick Award in 2013, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2022.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2006 | Best Director | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Original Screenplay | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Supporting Actor | Syriana | Won |
| 2008 | Best Actor | Michael Clayton | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Actor | Up in the Air | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Actor | The Descendants | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Ides of March | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Picture | Argo | Won |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| British Academy Film Awards |||||
| 2006 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Syriana | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Direction | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Original Screenplay | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Michael Clayton | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Up in the Air | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Descendants | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Ides of March | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Film | Argo | Won |

### Critics' Choice Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards |||||
| 2004 | Best Acting Ensemble | Ocean's Twelve | Nominated |
| 2005 | Best Director | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2005 | Best Writer | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2005 | Freedom Award | Good Night, and Good Luck | Won |
| 2005 | Best Supporting Actor | Syriana | Nominated |
| 2007 | Best Actor | Michael Clayton | Nominated |
| 2009 | Best Actor | Up in the Air | Nominated |
| 2011 | Best Actor | The Descendants | Nominated |
| Critics' Choice Television Awards |||||
| 2020 | Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | Catch-22 | Nominated |

### Emmy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| Primetime Emmy Award |||||
| 1995 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | ER (episode: "Long Day's Journey") | Nominated |
| 1996 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series | ER (episode: "Hell and High Water") | Nominated |
| 2010 | Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Special | Hope for Haiti Now | Nominated |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama | ER | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama | ER | Nominated |
| 1998 | Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama | ER | Nominated |
| 2001 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Won |
| 2006 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Syriana | Won |
| 2006 | Best Director – Motion Picture | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2006 | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Michael Clayton | Nominated |
| 2010 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Up in the Air | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Director – Motion Picture | The Ides of March | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Screenplay – Motion Picture | The Ides of March | Nominated |
| 2012 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | The Descendants | Won |
| 2013 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | Argo | Won |
| 2015 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | — | Honored |

### Screen Actors Guild Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1995 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | ER | Nominated |
| 1996 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | ER | Nominated |
| 1996 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | ER | Won |
| 1997 | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | ER | Nominated |
| 1997 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | ER | Won |
| 1998 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | ER | Won |
| 1999 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series | ER | Won |
| 2006 | Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Syriana | Nominated |
| 2006 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Motion Picture | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Nominated |
| 2008 | Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture | Michael Clayton | Nominated |
| 2010 | Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture | Up in the Air | Nominated |
| 2012 | Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture | The Descendants | Nominated |
| 2012 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Motion Picture | The Descendants | Nominated |

## Miscellaneous awards

| Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2005 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Syriana | Nominated |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2005 | Best Director | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2005 | Best Original Screenplay | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2005 | Best Cast Ensemble | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2008 | Best Cast Ensemble | Burn After Reading | Nominated |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2009 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Up in the Air | Nominated |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2009 | Best Cast Ensemble | Up in the Air | Runner Up |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2011 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Descendants | Nominated |
| Awards Circuit Community Award | 2012 | Best Motion Picture | Argo | Nominated |
| Central Ohio Film Critics Association | 2009 | Best Actor | Up in the Air | Won |
| Central Ohio Film Critics Association | 2009 | Actor of the Year | The Men Who Stare at Goats / Up in the Air / Fantastic Mr. Fox | Won |
| Cinema for Peace | 2006 | The Cinema for Peace Award | Good Night, and Good Luck | Won |
| Directors Guild of America Awards | 2005 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| Empire Awards | 2000 | Best Actor | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| Empire Awards | 2006 | Best Director | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Nominated |
| Fangoria Chainsaw Award | 1997 | Best Actor | From Dusk till Dawn | Won |
| Independent Spirit Awards | 2005 | Best Director | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards | 1996 | Best Breakthrough Performance | From Dusk till Dawn | Won |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards | 1999 | Best Kiss | Out of Sight | Nominated |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2000 | Best On-Screen Team | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2002 | Best Dressed | Ocean's Eleven | Nominated |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards | 2002 | Best On-Screen Team | Ocean's Eleven | Nominated |
| New York Film Critics Circle | 2009 | Best Actor | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Won |
| People's Choice Awards | 2008 | Favorite On Screen Match-Up | Ocean's Thirteen | Won |
| People's Choice Awards | 2012 | Favorite Movie Icon | Favorite Movie Icon | Nominated |
| People's Choice Awards | 2017 | Favorite Dramatic Movie Actor | Money Monster | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2000 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2005 | Best Original Screenplay (Motion Picture) | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Won |
| Satellite Awards | 2009 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical) | Up in the Air | Nominated |
| Satellite Awards | 2011 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) | The Descendants | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 1995 | Best Film Lead Actor | From Dusk till Dawn | Won |
| Saturn Awards | 2002 | Best Film Lead Actor | Solaris | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2011 | Best Film Lead Actor | The American | Nominated |
| Saturn Awards | 2014 | Best Film Supporting Actor | Gravity | Nominated |
| Teen Choice Awards | 2007 | Choice Movie Chemistry | Ocean's Thirteen | Won |
| Writers Guild of America Awards | 2005 | Best Original Screenplay | Good Night, and Good Luck | Nominated |
| Writers Guild of America Awards | 2005 | Paul Selvin Award | Good Night, and Good Luck | Won |

## Honorary awards

| Organizations | Year | Award | Result |
| Santa Barbara International Film Festival | 2006 | Modern Master Award | Honoree |
| Academy of Television Arts & Sciences | 2010 | Bob Hope Humanitarian Award | Honoree |
| Telluride Film Festival | 2011 | Silver Medallion Award | Honoree |
| Britannia Award | 2013 | Stanley Kubrick Award | Honoree |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2015 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Honoree |
| César Awards | 2017 | Honorary César | Honoree |
| American Film Institute | 2018 | AFI Life Achievement Award | Honoree |
| Kennedy Center Honors | 2022 | Medal | Honoree |