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George Clooney Receives Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

From Rzeczpospolita · () Polish

Translated from Polish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • George Clooney received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.
  • The actor and director has earned eight Oscar nominations and won for his supporting role in Syriana and as a producer of Argo.
  • Clooney described his career as a series of lucky accidents and said festivals can remind people that they are not as different as they are often told.

George Clooney accepted Venice’s Golden Lion with a joke about the unease that can accompany a lifetime-achievement award. "When you find out that you are getting an award for lifetime achievement, first you think, ‘What an incredible honor,’ and then, ‘Do they know something I don’t know?’" he said.

When you find out that you are getting an award for lifetime achievement, first you think, ‘What an incredible honor,’ and then, ‘Do they know something I don’t know?’

· George ClooneyHe opened his acceptance speech for the Golden Lion with a joke about lifetime-achievement awards.

Clooney arrived in Venice with his wife, Amal, and drew attention from newspapers and online audiences after photographs of the couple in a water taxi circulated widely. On the red carpet leading to the Festival Palace, he won over fans and photographers with his relaxed manner and smile.

The Ohio-born son of a television presenter began acting in television series, gaining wide recognition as Dr. Ross in ER. His film career took off after Roberto Rodriguez cast him in From Dusk Till Dawn in 1996. Clooney has since taken nearly 50 film roles and worked with Steven Soderbergh on seven films and the Coen brothers on four. He has also created major roles with directors including Alexander Payne, Tony Gilroy and Alfonso Cuarón.

George is a man who lives for the truth.

· Laura DernShe praised Clooney during the tribute presented in Venice.

Clooney has directed eight films, including Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck, Suburbicon and The Ides of March. He has received eight Oscar nominations across six categories, as an actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He won for supporting actor in Syriana and for producing Argo.

A series of happy accidents.

· George ClooneyHe described his career in his acceptance remarks.

Laura Dern, who delivered the tribute, called Clooney a storyteller devoted to truth. Clooney said his career had been "a series of happy accidents" and argued that film festivals can bring together people from countries divided by politics, religion and custom. "Nobody laughs in a different language. Nobody cries in a different language," he said.

Nobody laughs in a different language. Nobody cries in a different language.

· George ClooneyHe spoke about the way film festivals bring together people from divided countries.
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Originally published by Rzeczpospolita in Polish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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