Academy Award®-winning actor George Clooney will be a presenter at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producer Laura Ziskin announced today.

Last year, Clooney took home his first Oscar® for his supporting performance in Syriana and received 2 nominations for directing and co-writing Good Night and Good Luck. He can currently be seen in The Good German and will be seen next in Ocean’s Thirteen. Clooney’s other film credits include Ocean’s Twelve, Intolerable Cruelty, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Perfect Storm, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Three Kings.

Clooney will join fellow presenters Cameron Diaz, Eva Green and Hugh Jackman.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Feb 25 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

The Oscars® will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 pm PST (8 pm EST), beginning with a half-hour red carpet arrivals segment, The Road to the Oscars.