For his efficiency as a fictional iteration of his movie-star self in Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” George Clooney might obtain his first nomination since his transient however wonderful Academy Awards heyday.
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Variety of Academy Award nominations Clooney has acquired.
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All of Clooney’s nominations got here inside a seven-year interval, from 2006-2013.
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Clooney twice acquired a number of nominations in a single yr, and for separate tasks — in 2006 and 2012.
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In 2006, Clooney was nominated for steering and co-writing “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and for his supporting function as a CIA agent in “Syriana.” He received the appearing Oscar.
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Clooney received the second of his two Oscars for producing finest image winner “Argo,” at a ceremony that marked peak early twenty first century movie-star/multihyphenate hype.
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The perfect image award that yr was so necessary that it required then-First Girl Michelle Obama and Jack Nicholson to collaborate on its announcement.
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Variety of minutes Clooney spent onstage watching producing associate Grant Heslov reward producer/director/star Ben Affleck, who had been “snubbed” within the directing class, and Affleck’s acceptance speech after that.
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Clooney’s present age, and maybe a self-reflective one: Together with “Jay Kelly,” 2025 noticed a Broadway adaptation of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” during which he took on the function of McCarthy-era journalist Edward R. Murrow (performed within the movie model by David Strathairn).
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Clooney’s lead actor Tony nomination and 4 different nods for “Good Night” point out he has entered his second awards heyday.
