George Clooney is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year's Golden Globes. The two-time Oscar-winner, 53, will pick up the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 72nd annual edition of the ceremony on 1 January in Los Angeles, according to Variety.
Clooney has won four Golden Globes and been nominated 13 times by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who organise the awards. After a stuttering start to his big screen career, including a famously stale turn as the caped crusader in misfiring 1997 superhero sequel Batman & Robin, the former ER stalwart made his name with a series of turn-of-the-century critical and commercial hits. His best known early films include 1998's Out of Sight, 1999's Three Kings, 2000's Ocean's Eleven (and its two sequels) and the same year's O' Brother Where Art Thou?
Clooney won the best supporting Oscar in 2006 for geopolitical oil thriller Syriana, and was a recipient of the best film prize in 2013 as a producer of the Iran hostage crisis drama Argo. His Golden Globe wins were for O' Brother Where Art Thou?, Syriana, Argo (again as producer) and 2011's The Descendants. Other well-known films include 2007's Michael Clayton, 2009's Up in the Air and last year's Gravity. Clooney has also directed five films, including 2005's monochrome period newsman drama Good Night, and Good Luck, 2011 political thriller The Ides of March and this year's wartime drama The Monuments Men.
The Golden Globes has traditionally been seen as the Oscars' glitzy and lightweight poor relation, but the Cecil B DeMille Award has taken on greater significance in recent years after the body chose to honour high-profile figures such as Jodie Foster and Woody Allen. Foster took the opportunity to make the first public acknowledgment of her sexuality in a widely-reported acceptance speech last year, while Allen's award - the actor remained in New York as longtime muse Diane Keaton appeared on his behalf - led his former partner Mia Farrow and estranged son Ronan Farrow to reignite allegations that the actor-director abused his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992.
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