Clooney gushes over his Mrs

Actor sings Amal Alamuddin’s praises, expresses solidarity with Paris in lifetime achievement acceptance speech.

LOS ANGELES: Actor George Clooney, who attended the 72nd Golden Globe award ceremony to receive the prestigious Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement honour, was uninhibited in professing his love for wife Amal Alamuddin.

While concluding his award acceptance speech, Clooney could not help but make a mention of his human rights lawyer wife, who sat in the audience, blushing at her husband’s compliments. “It’s a humbling thing to find someone to love. Amal, I couldn’t be prouder to be your husband,” he said.



Earlier on during the ceremony, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler joked about the couple, who got married in Venice in September last year. “George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year,” said Fey, adding, “Amal is a human rights lawyer, who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria and was selected for a three-person UN commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza strip.” She jested, “So, tonight her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award.”

In his speech, the 53-year-old thanked the film fraternity for keeping “small films alive” and also referred to last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris. “Today was an extraordinary day. There were millions of people who marched not just in Paris but around the world, and they were Christians and Jews and Muslims,” he stated. “They were leaders of countries all over the world and they didn’t march in protest. They marched in support of the idea that we will not walk in fear. So, ‘Je suis Charlie’.”

Clooney, a four-time Golden Globe winner, has also bagged two Academy Awards. During his career, he has appeared in over 40 films and television shows. He attained star status with the 1990s TV drama ER before moving on to pursue a career in films. As a director, he has five features to his credit. These include Good Night and Good Luck, The Ides of March and The Monuments Men.

Apart from his contribution to the world of cinema, Clooney was chosen for the honour because of his humanitarian work, particularly in Darfur and Sudan. The actor was introduced to the stage by his ER co-star Julianna Marguiles. “In an industry where it is so easy to lose touch with who you are and what really matters, he has never been anything but real,” she said in her introductory message.

Golden Globe winners 2015

1.     Best Motion Picture (Drama): Boyhood

2.     Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama): Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

3.     Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama): Julianne Moore, Still Alice

4.     Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: JK Simmons, Whiplash

5.     Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

6.     Best Director (Motion Picture): Richard Linklater, Boyhood

7.     Best Television Series (Drama): The Affair

8.     Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series (Drama): Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

9.     Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series (Drama): Ruth Wilson, The Affair

10.    Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: George Clooney

Published in The Express Tribune, January 13^th,  2015.

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