Syriana

…a cynical CIA agent in Syriana (2005). The complex thriller took a critical look at the oil industry and its impact on international affairs. Clooney was nominated for best director and best screenwriter for Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). The film—shot in black-and-white and featuring actual newsreel footage—documented journalist…

…an oil company executive in Syriana (2005). He won critical praise for his performance as double agent Robert Hanssen in Breach (2007) as well as for his roles in the 2007 movies The Kingdom and Married Life. His later films included The Company Men (2010), Sayles’s Amigo (2010), Redford’s The…

…of the oil industry in Syriana (2005) and an agent forced to give up his family life in the early days of the CIA in Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd (2006). Also in 2006 Damon starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in The Departed; the crime thriller, which…

… (1996), One True Thing (1998), Syriana (2005), Into the Wild (2007), Robin Hood (2010), Winter’s Tale (2014), Days and Nights (2014), and Race (2016). He portrayed the Marvel comic character Thaddeus (“Thunderbolt”) Ross in the films The Incredible Hulk (2008),

…comedy Must Love Dogs (2005); Syriana (2005), a drama about the oil industry that also featured George Clooney and Matt Damon; and Spike Lee’s Inside Man (2006), which centred on a well-planned bank robbery.