MUMBAI: This year Emmy Awards will honour George Clooney for his humanitarian effort and will present the 49-year-old actor with its Bob Hope Humanitarian Award next month.

The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award was established in 2002.

Clooney is being honored for the ‘Hope for Haiti‘ TV special, which has been nominated for an Emmy award. This is in addition to his efforts to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina and raise awareness about genocide in Darfur.

John Shaffner, chairman and chief executive of the TV academy, said Clooney was ‘an obvious choice‘ for the award because he used the power of television to move people to act.

Clooney is the fourth recipient of the honour and will receive the award at the Emmy ceremony on 29 August.