George Clooney is a person.
George Timothy Clooney ( born May 6 , 1961 ) is an American actor , filmmaker , activist and philanthropist . 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 ) .