What is the best George Clooney acting performance of all time?
From a silver-tongued Depression-era fugitive to a world-weary CIA operative, George Clooney has spent decades proving that movie-star charisma and serious dramatic chops aren't mutually exclusive. He's won an Oscar, directed acclaimed films, and still made espionage look effortless. Which performance is his definitive work?
Michael Clayton
A morally conflicted law firm fixer forced to confront corporate wrongdoing in this taut 2007 legal thriller.
Matt King
A Hawaiian land baron grappling with family secrets while his wife lies in a coma in The Descendants (2011).
Ryan Bingham
A corporate downsizer who lives in airports until an unexpected romance challenges his detached lifestyle in Up in the Air (2009).
Bob Barnes
An aging CIA operative caught in the geopolitical web of Middle Eastern oil politics in Syriana (2005), earning Clooney an Oscar.
Ulysses Everett McGill
A silver-tongued escaped convict leading two hapless companions through Depression-era Mississippi in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).
Danny Ocean
The impossibly cool mastermind orchestrating an audacious Las Vegas casino heist in Ocean's Eleven (2001).
Seth Gecko
A violent, unpredictable criminal who ends up in a vampire bar in Mexico in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
Lt. Col. Archie Gates
A cynical Special Forces officer leading a rogue gold heist mission in post-Gulf War Iraq in Three Kings (1999).
Fred Friendly
CBS News executive championing Edward R. Murrow's stand against McCarthyism in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), a film Clooney also directed.
Augustine Lofthouse
A dying Arctic scientist desperately trying to warn returning astronauts of Earth's fate in The Midnight Sky (2020), a film he also directed.
Dodge Connelly
A fading 1920s football star scheming to save his team and romance a journalist in Leatherheads (2008), a film he also directed.
Lyn Cassady
A former Army psychic spy recounting bizarre covert operations to a baffled journalist in The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009).
Harry Pfarrer
A dim-witted CIA analyst tangled in a darkly comic Coen Brothers farce of misunderstandings in Burn After Reading (2008).
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