Ben Affleck is addressing the “large embarrassment” he skilled after the Oscars snubbed him within the Greatest Director class.
Affleck, 53, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! on Monday, January 5, and recalled his response to studying in 2013 that he was not nominated for steering the thriller Argo, which finally received the Academy Award for Greatest Image that 12 months.
“It was the 12 months, the horrible factor of everybody telling you, ‘You’re gonna get nominated, you’re gonna get nominated for director,’” Affleck advised host Jimmy Kimmel, 58, including, “And so, in fact, I get up that morning, and positive sufficient — and, by the best way, it’s not [unlike] every other morning that I had not been nominated for Greatest Director. However rapidly, it’s an enormous embarrassment. I awakened and other people [said], ‘You didn’t get nominated.’”
Kimmel confessed that he’d considered Affleck whereas watching Leonardo DiCaprio lose the Greatest Actor prize to Timothée Chalamet on the Critics’ Alternative Awards the earlier evening. In the meantime, One Battle After One other — the movie starring DiCaprio, 51 — picked up awards for Greatest Image and Greatest Director on the ceremony.
“I used to be considering, boy, he’s obtained so many higher locations to be,” Kimmel joked of DiCaprio. “And the film wins Greatest Image. The director Paul Thomas Anderson wins Greatest Director, after which he doesn’t win. And I’m considering he should be so pissed that [he had to leave] no matter he obtained 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 scenario ever,” he mused. “I feel you’re underselling this. As a result of Argo, not solely was it nominated for the Oscar for Greatest Image, you received Greatest 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 means on the time. The day the Oscar nominations have been introduced, he attended the 18th Critics’ Alternative Awards in January 2013 and confronted a line of reporters on the pink carpet.
“It appeared like there have been 500 folks dying to speak to me,” he recalled. “And each single one in all them [said], ‘Hello. So, the snub.’ What do you say to that? ‘Ha, ha, ha, yeah. It’s a bummer.’”
Nonetheless, on a brighter word, he ended up profitable the Greatest Director award for Argo that night, besting Steven Spielberg for Lincoln and Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Darkish Thirty.
“This unfavorable occasion turns right into a optimistic,” mentioned Affleck, who congratulated Kimmel on profitable the 2026 Critics’ Alternative Award for Greatest Discuss Present.
The actor, there to advertise The Rip, his upcoming movie with Matt Damon, learn Kimmel a sarcastic word from Damon, 55, whom he quoted as writing, “It is best to have gotten canceled a very long time in the past. Possibly you’d have gotten sympathy then so you could possibly have received multiple 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 dying 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 twenty years, however he’s by no means forgotten his New England roots (or his love of Dunkin’ espresso). Born in Berkeley, California, the avid Purple Sox fan moved to Massachusetts together with his household when he was simply 3 years previous. He […]
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