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No, Ben Affleck hasn’t gotten over his brutal Oscars snub for “Argo.”
Affleck, 53, said he “benefited from sympathy” after Jimmy Kimmel acknowledged the actor’s two-time Critics’ Choice Awards win in a latest interview.
“Well, yeah. That was like a year when everybody — it’s the horrible thing of everyone telling you all the time, ‘You’re going to get nominated. You’re going to get nominated for director.’ For this movie ‘Argo,’ that I did,” Affleck said to Kimmel.
“And so of course, I wake up that morning, and sure enough — and by the way, it’s not like any other morning that I had not been nominated for best director.”
Ben Affleck will get candid about the time he was snubbed by the Oscars for his 2021 motion movie “Argo.” Disney
“But all of a sudden, it’s a massive embarrassment,” he added. “I woke up and people [said] you didn’t get nominated.”
The late-night host confessed that he thought of the “Gone Girl” actor while watching Leonardo DiCaprio lose Best Actor to Timothée Chalamet at the Critics’ Choice Awards on January 4.
“I was thinking about you because this is maybe the worst award show situation ever,” Kimmel said. “I think you’re underselling this because ‘Argo’ — not only was it nominated for the Oscars for Best Picture, you won Best Picture.”
“You starred in it and directed it, and you were not nominated in either category for the film,” he told Affleck. “Like it’s as if the movie directed itself.”
“Well, yeah. That was like a year when everybody—it’s the horrible thing of everyone telling you all the time, ‘you’re going to get nominated. You’re going to get nominated for director for this movie “Argo,” that I did,” Affleck said to Kimmel. Disney
“Argo” received the 2013 Oscars for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Writing/Adapted Screenplay, and Best Achievement in Film Editing.
During his acceptance speech, the “Air” producer gave a nod to award-winning director Steven Spielberg, the other movies that have been nominated for the award, and Tony Mendez, the person on whom the movie is based.
Daniel Day-Lewis received Best Actor that 12 months for his efficiency as Former President Abraham Lincoln in the historic film “Lincoln.” Hugh Jackman (“Les Misérables”), Denzel Washington (‘Flight”), Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”), and Joaquin Phoenix (“The Master”) have been also nominated for the award.
“But all of a sudden, it’s a massive embarrassment. I woke up and people [said] you didn’t get nominated,” he continued. Disney
“Argo” did win the 2013 Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Director and Best Picture. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
“Argo,” starring Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, and Alan Arkin, follows a CIA agent appearing undercover as a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction movie. In actuality, the agent is a half of an operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the US hostage disaster in Iran in 1979.
The “Town” actor revealed that he had to go to the Critics’ Choice Awards the day the Oscar nominations have been announced, and had to face a “red carpet line” full of reporters.
“It seemed like there were 500 people dying to talk to me,” he recalled. “And every single one of them [said], ‘Hi. So, the snub. What do you say to that? Ha, ha, ha, yeah. It’s a bummer.’”
Bryan Cranston and Ben Affleck, as their characters in “Argo,” in 2012. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Ben Affleck trying through a digital camera on the set of the film Argo. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
“Argo,” however, did win that night time with the 2013 Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Director and Best Picture. But that didn’t stop the seasoned actor from feeling mortified.
“It’s just more embarrassing because, you know, I felt like okay. I wasn’t the one going out there being like, ‘I’m going to get. I’m going to get nominated,’” Affleck told Kimmel. “It was more kind of like having to be put through the ritual of them answering for why you didn’t get nominated.”
Affleck, alongside author and actor Matt Damon, received the 1998 Oscars award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for their 1997 movie “Good Will Hunting.” Getty Images
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon holding their Oscars after profitable for “Good Will Hunting.” AFP via Getty Images
Affleck, alongside author and actor Matt Damon, received the 1998 Oscars award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for their 1997 movie “Good Will Hunting.”
The appearing duo is presently working on the new Netflix film “The Rip.”
Affleck introduced up a humorous reminiscence of him and Damon when Kimmel requested about the duo’s dynamics on set.
Affleck is starring in “The Rip,” a new Netflix film. Disney
“When we were doing the fight scenes, it did remind me of when we were teenagers, and I started getting taller than him, which he didn’t like,” Affleck said. “And all of a sudden, he’d be like, at his worst, he would say, ‘If I had your height, forget it. I’d be like, you know, I’d win the dunk contest.’”
The cop drama film, based on a true story, follows “a group of Miami cops discovers a stash of millions in cash, leading to distrust as outsiders learn about the huge seizure, making them question who to rely on,” according to IMDB.
Affleck, who married Jennifer Lopez in July 2022, finalized their divorce in Jan. 2025 while the “Batman” actor was filming for the Netflix film.
The film can be out there to stream on Netflix on January 16.
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