{"id":256100,"date":"2026-01-21T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256100\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:27:08","slug":"matt-damon-calls-oscar-campaigning-completely-backwards-why-the-odyssey-felt-like-the-last-big-movie-on-film-he-would-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256100\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon Calls Oscar Campaigning &#8220;Completely Backwards&#8221; &#038; Why &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; Felt Like The &#8220;Last Big Movie On Film&#8221; He Would Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-damon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-damon\" data-tag=\"matt-damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a> is opening up about award season and revealed he is not too keen on campaigning for a film to be recognized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a new interview while promoting his Netflix movie The Rip, the Oscar winner was quick say he \u201c100%\u201d doesn\u2019t mind missing out on award season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhat I don\u2019t like is this idea of campaigning,\u201d Damon said on Netflix\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/matt-damon-the-rip\/id1468510314?i=1000745764532\">Skip Intro<\/a> podcast. \u201cIt seems completely backwards to me. It\u2019s just odd.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe continued, \u201cAnd maybe it\u2019s good for movies, just having it all out there, and gets the culture thinking and talking about movies. I hope that\u2019s the case\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDamon noted that, with all the attention films get during the campaign trail amid award season, he understands this could help people stay conscious of a certain movie amid \u201cso much noise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe actor has successfully campaigned during award season, winning an Oscar for his\u00a0screenplay for Good Will Hunting. Damon was nominated three times for acting, and in 2024,\u00a0Christopher Nolan\u2019s\u00a0Oppenheimer\u00a0won the Academy Award for Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite not being keen on award season, Damon will most likely find himself going on the campaign trail again after starring in Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey. When asked about working on the epic, Damon said he was \u201cstill kind of unpacking\u201d the experience and noted it had \u201ca profound effect\u201d on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cDoing The Odyssey this last year, it felt like my one chance in my life to make a David Lean movie, you know?\u201d he said. \u201cThat I was making the last big movie on film that I was ever going to get to make.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Damon is opening up about award season and revealed he is not too keen on campaigning for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,98032,2625],"class_list":{"0":"post-256100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-matt-damon","13":"tag-oscars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256100","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=256100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}