Michael Clayton

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American film film legal thriller film

Michael Clayton is a 2007 legal thriller film starring George Clooney as a law firm's "fixer" who confronts a major corporate corruption scandal.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → film → legal thriller film →
academyAwardNomination	Best Actor → Best Director → Best Original Screenplay → Best Picture → Best Supporting Actor → Best Supporting Actress →
academyAwardWin	Best Supporting Actress →
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress → BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress →
cinematography	Robert Elswit →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Tony Gilroy →
distributedBy	Warner Bros. Pictures →
editedBy	John Gilroy →
genre	drama film → legal thriller →
hasMetacriticScore	82 →
hasRottenTomatoesRating	over 90 percent →
language	English →
mainCharacter	Michael Clayton →
mainCharacterOccupation	attorney → law firm fixer →
musicBy	James Newton Howard NERFINISHED →
narrativeTheme	corporate malfeasance → legal ethics → personal redemption → whistleblowing →
notableFor	George Clooney’s performance as a law firm fixer →
plotFocus	class-action lawsuit → corporate corruption scandal →
producer	Jennifer Fox → Kerry Orent → Sydney Pollack →
productionCompany	Castle Rock Entertainment → Section Eight Productions →
releaseDate	2007-09-28 →
releaseYear	2007 →
runtimeMinutes	119 →
screenwriter	Tony Gilroy →
setInPeriod	2000s →
starring	George Clooney → Merritt Wever → Michael O’Keefe → Sydney Pollack → Tilda Swinton → Tom Wilkinson →
writer	Tony Gilroy →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
George Clooney → John Gilroy → Tilda Swinton → Tom Wilkinson →	notableWork
Tom Wilkinson →	actedIn
John Gilroy →	edited
Michael Clayton →	mainCharacter
George Clooney →	portrayedCharacter
John Gilroy →	workedOn