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 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.

[2]) 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.