{"id":230862,"date":"2026-01-06T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230862\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:36:07","slug":"ben-affleck-reveals-the-oscars-snub-that-was-a-massive-embarrassment-academy-awards-awards-shows-ben-affleck-movies-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230862\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Reveals the Oscars Snub that Was a \u2018Massive Embarrassment\u2019 | Academy Awards, awards shows, Ben Affleck, Movies | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Affleck<\/a> is looking back on an unfortunate time that his talents were overlooked at the Oscars. <\/p>\n

During a Monday, Jan. 5 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the 53-year-old Good Will Hunting star congratulated host Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, who won Best Talk Show<\/a> at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards<\/a> over the weekend. <\/p>\n

Jimmy replied by pointing out that Ben had taken home awards from the show over the years, prompting the actor to opine that he \u201cbenefited from sympathy\u201d at the ceremony one time. According to him, his victory came after a \u201cmassive embarrassment\u201d when he was snubbed at the Oscars. <\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

Ben was referring to the 2013 Critics Choice Awards<\/a>, when he took home Best Director and Best Picture for his film Argo. The win came the day that he was not nominated for Best Director at the 2013 Oscars. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the horrible thing of everyone\u2019s telling you all the time, \u2018You\u2019re going to get nominated. You\u2019re going to get nominated for director.\u2019 This movie Argo that I did and everybody kept telling us that it would get nominated,\u201d he recalled. <\/p>\n

When his name wasn\u2019t included on the list of nominees, Ben said, \u201cAll of a sudden it\u2019s a massive embarrassment. I woke up and people [told him], \u2018You didn\u2019t get nominated.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being snubbed in the Best Director category, Argo did win Best Picture at the Oscars. <\/p>\n

Jimmy told Ben that he was \u201cunderselling\u201d what he described as \u201cmaybe the worst award show situation ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou starred in it, and you directed it, and you were not nominated in either category for a film. Like it\u2019s as if the movie directed itself,\u201d he said, prompting Ben to agree, \u201cThat\u2019s sort of what it felt like.\u201d <\/p>\n

The The Rip actor added that it was harder to attend the Critics Choice Awards right after being overlooked at the Oscars. <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember getting there and there was a like a red carpet line. It seemed like there were 500 people dying to talk to me,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery single one of them was, \u2018Hi. So the snub.\u2019 Like what do you say to that? \u2018It\u2019s a bummer\u2019 [laughs]?<\/p>\n

What made it more complicated to Ben was that he was not the one predicting his nomination. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t the one going out there and being like, \u2018I\u2019m going to get it. I\u2019m going to get nominated.\u2019 And so it was more kind of like having to be put through the ritual of then answering for why you didn\u2019t get nominated,\u201d he explained. \u201cI didn\u2019t say I was going to get and so it was sort of\u2026 I mean it was a little bit embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have you seen the trailer for Ben\u2018s new movie<\/a>, which sees him reunite with a close friend and frequent collaborator? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck is looking back on an unfortunate time that his talents were overlooked at the Oscars. During…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-230862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}