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Clooney, 53, one of Hollywood's leading men on screen and behind
the camera, will be honored in January at the Golden Globes
Awards, one of the year's most high-profile awards ceremonies
for film and television organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association.
Theo Kingma, the association's president, said the award was for
Clooney's "outstanding contributions both in front of and behind
the camera."
Clooney is a two-time Oscar winner, as supporting actor in "Syriana"
and as a producer of the 2013 best motion picture "Argo." He has
also won three Golden Globes, including best actor in a motion
picture for "The Descendants" in 2012 and "O Brother, Where Art
Thou?" in 2001.
This year, he released his fifth film as director, the World War
Two drama "The Monuments Men," and he recently signed to direct
Sony Pictures' "Hack Attack," about the phone hacking scandal
that ensnared British politicians and media figures.
News of the Cecil B. DeMille award comes as Clooney prepares to
wed his fiancee, lawyer Amal Alamuddin, in Venice in late
September.
The award is named after the influential Hollywood director who
spanned both the silent and sound eras of film. Last year, it
was awarded to prolific director Woody Allen, who in keeping
with his custom to not attend awards shows sent actress Diane
Keaton to pick up the accolade.
Recent winners include actors Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman and
Robert De Niro, and directors Steven Spielberg and Martin
Scorsese.
(refiled to take out extra 'the' in front of 'Hollywood' in
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(Reporting by Mary Milliken; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and Tom
Brown)
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