George Clooney's 'Jay Kelly' Oscar chances, by the numbers

For his show arsenic a fictional iteration of his movie-star aforesaid successful Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” George Clooney could person his archetypal information since his little but glorious Academy Awards heyday.

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Number of Academy Award nominations Clooney has received.

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All of Clooney’s nominations came wrong a seven-year period, from 2006-2013.

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Clooney doubly received aggregate nominations successful a azygous year, and for abstracted projects — successful 2006 and 2012.

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In 2006, Clooney was nominated for directing and co-writing “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and for his supporting relation arsenic a CIA cause successful “Syriana.” He won the acting Oscar.

2013

Clooney won the 2nd of his 2 Oscars for producing champion representation victor “Argo,” astatine a ceremonial that marked highest aboriginal 21st period movie-star/multihyphenate hype.

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The champion representation grant that twelvemonth was truthful important that it required then-First Lady Michelle Obama and Jack Nicholson to collaborate connected its announcement.

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Number of minutes Clooney spent onstage watching producing spouse Grant Heslov praise producer/director/star Ben Affleck, who had been “snubbed” successful the directing category, and Affleck’s acceptance code aft that.

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Clooney’s existent age, and possibly a self-reflective one: Along with “Jay Kelly,” 2025 saw a Broadway adaptation of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” successful which helium took connected the relation of McCarthy-era writer Edward R. Murrow (played successful the movie mentation by David Strathairn).

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Clooney’s pb histrion Tony information and 4 different nods for “Good Night” bespeak helium has entered his 2nd awards heyday.