George Clooney won two Oscars and three Golden Globes as actor and producer. Photo: Carlo Allegri/ ReutersOscar-winning actor, director and producer George Clooney will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an honorary Golden Globe for his contribution to cinema, organisers of the event said.
Clooney, 53, one of Hollywood’s leading men on screen and behind the camera, will be honoured in January at the Golden Globes Awards, one of the year’s most high-profile awards ceremonies for film and television organised 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 II 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 fiancée, 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.