Julia Roberts To Present George Clooney With AFI Life Achievement Award -- Deadline

Julia Roberts, who has starred alongside George Clooney in big movies and starred for him as a director and producer, will present Clooney with the AFI Life Achievement Award when it is bestowed June 7 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

BFF Laugh: Julia Roberts (L) & George Clooney (R)

Clooney was selected in October as the recipient of the 46th annual AFI Life Achievement Award, with the two-time Oscar winner one of only two people (along with Walt Disney) to be nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.

The ceremony will air on TNT on June 21 and in September on TCM during a night of programming dedicated to Clooney’s films.

Roberts, herself a four-time Oscar nominee and the Best Actress winner for Erin Brokovich, has appeared alongside Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve and most recently in 2016’s Money Monster. She also starred in his directorial debut, 2002’s Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and in 2013’s August: Osage County which he produced.

The AFI Life Achievement Award was established [by the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973], to honor a single individual for his or her lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television. The recipient is selected and honored at a ceremony annually, with the award presented by a master of ceremonies and recently, the prior year's recipient, who usually gives a brief synopsis of the awarded individual and career background including highlights and achievements.

The Trustees initially specified that the recipient must be one who fundamentally advanced the art of film and whose achievements had been acknowledged by the general public as well as by film scholars and critics and the individual's peers. The Trustees also specified that the work of the recipient must have withstood the test of time.

Source: Deadline