Swinton should get an Oscar nod, and looking at the field, she might win. Wilkinson should get one as well, though with Bardem getting the reviews of a lifetime, it might be a moot point.

And let's look at Clooney's body of work over the past decade.

Out of Sight
The Thin Red Line
Three Kings
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Perfect Storm
Ocean's 11
Solaris
Welcome to Collinwood
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Intolerable Cruelty
Ocean's 12
Good Night and Good Luck
Syriana
The Good German
Ocean's 13
Michael Clayton

That's a hell of a list. Almost all of them are artistic stretches (minuses the bankable Perfect Storm and Ocean flicks), and he's still pretty good even in the not-so-good flicks. Plus, he directed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind AND Good Night and Good Luck, both of which I put in my Top 5 Films of the Year the respective years they came out.

The man is putting together a simply stellar career.