How do you celebrate when you’re given a lifetime achievement award for your work in front of the camera? Well, if you’re George Clooney, you get behind the camera instead.
The actor, 65, was honoured with the prestigious Golden Lion award as the Venice Film Festival opened last night.
But he swapped his film award for a film camera, borrowing a photographer’s lens to take his own pictures instead.
Tiziana Fabi, a photographer with news agency Agence France-Presse, posed for Clooney while holding the actor’s trophy.
Accepting the award, Clooney said it was an ‘incredible honour’ before joking: ‘Do [the award committee] know something
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