Ben Affleck is addressing the “huge embarrassment” he skilled after the Oscars snubbed him within the Finest Director class.
Affleck, 53, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Stay! on Monday, January 5, and recalled his response to studying in 2013 that he was not nominated for guiding the thriller Argo, which ultimately received the Academy Award for Finest Image that yr.
“It was the yr, the horrible factor of everybody telling you, ‘You’re gonna get nominated, you’re gonna get nominated for director,’” Affleck instructed host Jimmy Kimmel, 58, including, “And so, in fact, I get up that morning, and certain sufficient — and, by the best way, it’s not [unlike] another morning that I had not been nominated for Finest Director. However hastily, it’s a large embarrassment. I awoke and folks [said], ‘You didn’t get nominated.’”
Kimmel confessed that he’d considered Affleck whereas watching Leonardo DiCaprio lose the Finest Actor prize to Timothée Chalamet on the Critics’ Selection Awards the earlier night time. In the meantime, One Battle After One other — the movie starring DiCaprio, 51 — picked up awards for Finest Image and Finest Director on the ceremony.
“I used to be considering, boy, he’s acquired so many higher locations to be,” Kimmel joked of DiCaprio. “And the film wins Finest Image. The director Paul Thomas Anderson wins Finest Director, after which he doesn’t win. And I’m considering he should be so pissed that [he had to leave] no matter he acquired airlifted from — a yacht someplace — and couldn’t be there anymore. He got here to lose.”
Kimmel’s sympathy for DiCaprio conjured Affleck’s Argo snub, “as a result of that is possibly the worst award-show state of affairs ever,” he mused. “I believe you’re underselling this. As a result of Argo, not solely was it nominated for the Oscar for Finest Image, you received Finest Image. You starred in it and directed it, and you weren’t nominated in both class … it’s as if the film directed itself.”
Affleck admitted that he “felt” the identical manner on the time. The day the Oscar nominations have been introduced, he attended the 18th Critics’ Selection Awards in January 2013 and confronted a line of reporters on the pink carpet.
“It appeared like there have been 500 individuals dying to speak to me,” he recalled. “And each single one among them [said], ‘Hello. So, the snub.’ What do you say to that? ‘Ha, ha, ha, yeah. It’s a bummer.’”
Nevertheless, on a brighter observe, he ended up profitable the Finest Director award for Argo that night, besting Steven Spielberg for Lincoln and Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Darkish Thirty.
“This destructive occasion turns right into a optimistic,” mentioned Affleck, who congratulated Kimmel on profitable the 2026 Critics’ Selection Award for Finest Discuss Present.
The actor, there to advertise The Rip, his upcoming movie with Matt Damon, learn Kimmel a sarcastic observe from Damon, 55, whom he quoted as writing, “You must have gotten canceled a very long time in the past. Possibly you’d have gotten sympathy then so you might have received a couple of minor film award.”
Kimmel’s namesake discuss present was briefly pulled off the air in September 2025 amid backlash from his commentary on the homicide of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot to demise that very same month whereas talking at Utah Valley College.
A Boston boy via and thru. Ben Affleck has been a Hollywood A-lister for greater than 20 years, however he’s by no means forgotten his New England roots (or his love of Dunkin’ espresso). Born in Berkeley, California, the avid Crimson Sox fan moved to Massachusetts along with his household when he was simply 3 years outdated. He […]
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