George Clooney Wins Humanitarian Award at Emmys
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Raven Schneizer in Entertainment
George Clooney has added yet another trophy to his already extensive collection by picking up a non-acting award at Sunday’s Primetime Emmy awards.
Clooney was presented with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys for his work to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur, as well as his fund-raising efforts for causes such as Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake and the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington DC.
“It’s important to remember how much good can get done because we live in such strange times where bad behavior sucks up all of the attention and the press,” Clooney said as he accepted the award.
The actor said he hoped there were others who could step in and “help find a way to keep the spotlight burning on these heart-breaking situations that continue to be heartbreaking long after the cameras go away.”
Television Academy chairman John Shaffner said Clooney was “an obvious choice” for the humanitarian award because he had “understood and harnessed the power of television…to reach into the hearts of people around the world.”
Clooney was one of the main organizers of charity telethons for victims of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
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