Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#197
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
George Clooney represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 39 years in, and George is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
George Clooney appears in 53 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without George. Henry David Thoreau is the clearest case: a film rated 9.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, comedy, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Émilie Noblet, Noah Baumbach, Grant Heslov and others, George Clooney helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Henry David Thoreau (2026) as Narrator (voice) · Gravity (2013) as Matt Kowalski · Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (2022) as Self
Career snapshot
Ranked #197 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
53
1987–2026
Career length
39 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.3
Henry David Thoreau
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.3
Henry David Thoreau
Most frequent director
George Clooney
6 films together
Longest collaboration
6×
With George Clooney
Most common genre
Comedy
24 titles
Average runtime
1h 42m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.1
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.8
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. Three Kings, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Thin Red Line — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 8 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Return to Horror High.
Most productive era
2000s
19 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.41 film | 6.510 films | 6.87 films | 5.15 films |
| Action | — | 6.24 films | 5.83 films | — | 6.61 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.11 film | 6.77 films | 7.04 films | 3.21 film |
| Comedy | 5.42 films | 6.84 films | 6.49 films | 6.03 films | 5.76 films |
| Sci-Fi | — | — | — | 8.41 film | — |
| Crime | — | 6.92 films | 6.97 films | 6.01 film | 6.51 film |
| Romance | — | 6.62 films | 6.34 films | — | 6.41 film |
| Horror | 5.42 films | 7.11 film | — | — | 3.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Oliver.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as George Clooney.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
53 of 53 films
as Narrator (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Matt Kowalski
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
as Mr. Fox (voice)
Directed by Wes Anderson
as Danny Ocean
Directed by Unknown
as Self
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 79 titles · 107 total credits · active 1987–2026
Henry David Thoreau
2026 · Narrator (voice)
Call My Agent! The Movie
2026 · George Clooney
Skip Intro
2026 · TV · Self - Guest
Henry David Thoreau
2026 · TV · Self – Narrator (voice)
Jay Kelly
2025 · Jay Kelly
Good Night, and Good Luck
2025 · Edward R. Murrow · Writer · Executive Producer
The Coen Brothers - An American Story
2025 · Self
The Making of Jay Kelly
2025 · Self - Jay Kelly
Actors on Actors: Broadway
2025 · TV · Self
IF
2024 · Spaceman (voice)
Wolfs
2024 · Margaret's Man · Producer
The Agency
2024 · TV · Executive Producer
The Flash
2023 · Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
The Boys in the Boat
2023 · Director · Producer
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023 · TV · Self
Ticket to Paradise
2022 · David Cotton · Producer
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022 · Self
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
2022 · TV · Self
The Tender Bar
2021 · Director · Producer
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020 · Ron
The Midnight Sky
2020 · Augustine Lofthouse · Director · Producer
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
2020 · Self
The Art of Political Murder
2020 · Executive Producer
Catch-22
2019 · TV · Scheisskopf · Director
The defining work
#1
Narrator (voice)
Henry David Thoreau (2026)
Performance score9.6
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Narrator (voice) gives George Clooney a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Matt Kowalski
Gravity (2013)
Performance score8.6
Gravity asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Matt Kowalski is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Mr. Fox (voice)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Performance score8.3
Fantastic Mr. Fox asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mr. Fox (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Danny Ocean
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Performance score8.1
Ocean's Eleven asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Danny Ocean is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Narrator (voice)
Start here. Henry David Thoreau is the clearest statement of what George Clooney does — accessible, 173 minutes, and rated 9.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet George at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Same director as Henry David Thoreau, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
A deliberate change of key after Ocean's Eleven — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Gravity (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Fantastic Mr. Fox — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Gravity — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
George Clooney
Director
6 films together
Notably Good Night, and Good Luck.
Robert Rodriguez
Director
3 films together
Notably From Dusk Till Dawn
Joel Coen
Director
3 films together
Notably O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Alfonso Cuarón
Director
2 films together
Notably Gravity
Grant Heslov
Director
2 films together
Notably Good Night, and Good Luck
Bill Froehlich
Director
1 film together
Notably Return to Horror High
John De Bello
Director
1 film together
Notably Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
Michael Hoffman
Director
1 film together
Notably One Fine Day
Mimi Leder
Director
1 film together
Notably The Peacemaker
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman & Robin
Terrence Malick
Director
1 film together
Notably The Thin Red Line
Trey Parker
Director
1 film together
Notably South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Three Kings
Wolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together
Notably The Perfect Storm
Anthony Russo
Director
1 film together
Notably Welcome to Collinwood
Stephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together
Notably Syriana
Tony Gilroy
Director
1 film together
Notably Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman
Director
1 film together
Notably Up in the Air
Wes Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Mr. Fox
Alexander Payne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Descendants
Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably A Very Murray Christmas
Brad Bird
Director
1 film together
Notably Tomorrowland
Jodie Foster
Director
1 film together
Notably Money Monster
André Szöts
Director
1 film together
Notably Grizzly II: Revenge
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flash
Jon Watts
Director
1 film together
Notably Wolfs
John Krasinski
Director
1 film together
Notably IF
Noah Baumbach
Director
1 film together
Notably Jay Kelly
Émilie Noblet
Director
1 film together
Notably Call My Agent! The Movie
Sandra Bullock
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Ed Harris
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Orto Ignatiussen
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Phaldut Sharma
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Amy Warren
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Basher Savage
Actor
1 film together
Notably Gravity
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
George Clooney
Director
6 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 6 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Good Night, and Good Luck.Joel Coen
Director
3 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
O Brother, Where Art Thou?Robert Rodriguez
Director
3 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
From Dusk Till DawnAlfonso Cuarón
Director
2 films together · 7.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
GravityGrant Heslov
Director
2 films together · 6.7 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Good Night, and Good LuckWes Anderson
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic Mr. FoxTerrence Malick
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Thin Red LineTrey Parker
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
South Park: Bigger, Longer & UncutJohn Krasinski
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
IFJason Reitman
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Up in the AirAlexander Payne
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DescendantsTony Gilroy
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Michael ClaytonDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Three KingsAndy Muschietti
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FlashJon Watts
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WolfsWolfgang Petersen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Perfect StormMichael Hoffman
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Fine DayJodie Foster
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Money MonsterStephen Gaghan
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SyrianaBrad Bird
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TomorrowlandNoah Baumbach
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jay KellyAnthony Russo
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Welcome to CollinwoodMimi Leder
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PeacemakerJohn De Bello
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!Sofia Coppola
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Very Murray ChristmasBill Froehlich
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Return to Horror HighJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 4.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman & RobinAndré Szöts
Director
1 film together · 3.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Grizzly II: RevengeÉmilie Noblet
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Call My Agent! The MovieSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Henry David Thoreau
as Narrator (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Good Night, and Good Luck
as Edward R. Murrow
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Henry David Thoreau
as Narrator (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Flash
as Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Henry David Thoreau
as Narrator (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. George Clooney has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 7.6 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #616 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 8.4 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Alfonso Cuarón | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Screen presence, Quiet performance, Rewatchability | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 2013–2013 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Matt Kowalski — Gravity | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | Gravity | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Best Space Movies, Sci-Fi Movies, Thriller Movies, Drama Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
39 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
24 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Gravity
as Matt Kowalski
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gravity
as Matt Kowalski
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Good Night, and Good Luck
as Edward R. Murrow
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Solaris
as Chris Kelvin
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Henry David Thoreau
as Narrator (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Flash
as Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
as Jim Byrd
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Gravity
as Matt Kowalski
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 6 Nutevio collections
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