George Clooney works in the film industry.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 biographical spy comedy film depicting the life of popular game show host and producer Chuck Barris , who claimed to have also been an assassin for the CIA . George Clooney . Clooney won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller Syriana ( 2005 ) , and subsequently earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton ( 2007 ) and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air ( 2009 ) and The Descendants ( 2011 ) . Leatherheads is a 2008 American sports comedy film from Universal Pictures directed by and starring George Clooney . The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney , along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon . Three Kings is a 1999 American satirical black comedy war film written and directed by David O. Russell from a story by John Ridley .