George Clooney to receive Cecil B. DeMille awardHollywood Hot Gossips

September 16, 2014 14:22
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September is fast turning out to be the year's best month for the Oscar-winning actor, director and producer George Clooney, who isn't just due to wed his ladylove Amal Alamuddin in Italy this month, but also will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an honorary Golden Globe for "outstanding contributions both in front of and behind the camera." Whoa!

The 53-year-old Clooney is one of Hollywood's leading men on screen and behind the camera. He will be felicitated with the award in January at the Golden Globes Awards.

Besides winning two Oscars — one for his supporting role in "Syriana" and second for producing the 2013 best motion picture "Argo," he has bagged three Golden Globes in the past, including best actor in a motion picture for "The Descendants" in 2012 and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" in 2001.

In 2014, he released his fifth film as director, the World War Two drama "The Monuments Men.”

The Cecil B. DeMille 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.

Other actors to have won this prestigious award are Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro, and directors Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

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