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Ben Affleck addresses Oscar snub as ‘Argos” director<\/p>\n
Ben Affleck opened up about his Oscar snub in 2013 from the Best Director category, for\u00a0Argo\u00a02013.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Batman\u00a0star made an appearance at Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0where he recalled his reaction on learning that he was not nominated for his film, which eventually won Best Picture that year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the year, the horrible thing of everyone telling you, \u2018You\u2019re gonna get nominated, you\u2019re gonna get nominated for director,\u2019\u201d Affleck told host Kimmel.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cAnd so, of course, I wake up that morning, and sure enough \u2014 and, by the way, it\u2019s not [unlike] any other morning that I had not been nominated for Best Director. But all of a sudden, it\u2019s a massive embarrassment. I woke up and people [said], \u2018You didn\u2019t get nominated.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel admitted that he\u2019d thought of Affleck while watching Leonardo DiCaprio lose the Best Actor prize to Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet at the Critics\u2019 Choice Awards. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, One Battle After Another, the film starring DiCaprio, won Best Picture and Best Director at the ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking, boy, he\u2019s got so many better places to be,\u201d Kimmel joked of DiCaprio. \u201cAnd the movie wins Best Picture. The director Paul Thomas Anderson wins Best Director, and then he doesn\u2019t win.”<\/p>\n
The host continued, \u201cAnd I\u2019m thinking he must be so pissed that [he had to leave] whatever he got airlifted from \u2014 a yacht somewhere \u2014 and couldn\u2019t be there anymore. He came to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n
While comparing both the stars Kimmel called it the \u201cworst award-show situation ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Affleck, was originally there to promote The Rip, his upcoming film with Matt Damon.<\/p>\n
The Rip is slated to be released on January 16 on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck addresses Oscar snub as ‘Argos” director Ben Affleck opened up about his Oscar snub in 2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-220106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}