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Ben Affleck Reveals Being ‘Embarrassed’ After Oscar Snub For Argo<\/p>\n
Ben Affleck<\/a> recently reflected on one of the most discussed incidents of his career – his surprising Oscar<\/a> omission for Argo. While promoting his forthcoming Netflix project The Rip, the actor-director appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>! and openly shared his feelings about the emotional impact of not receiving a Best Director nomination, despite being seen as a leading contender that year, describing it as a ‘significant embarrassment’ for himself.Released in 2012, Argo became one of the most acclaimed films of the awards circuit. Affleck dominated major precursor awards, taking home Best Director at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards<\/a> and BAFTAs. However, when the Oscar nominations were revealed, his name was notably missing from the Best Director category – even as Argo garnered seven nominations in total and ultimately secured the Best Picture award along with two additional Oscars<\/a>. Looking back on the incident, Affleck confessed that the snub was profoundly humiliating. \u201cIt was the year, the awful situation of everyone saying, \u2018You\u2019re going to get nominated, you\u2019re going to get nominated for director,\u2019\u201d he reminisced. \u201cAnd so, naturally, I woke up that morning, and sure enough – and, by the way, it\u2019s not [unlike] any other morning that I had not been nominated for best director. But suddenly, it\u2019s a huge embarrassment. I woke up and people [said], \u2018You didn\u2019t get nominated.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Ben Affleck describes the snub as ‘a letdown’<\/p>\n The situation became even more awkward later that same day. Affleck had to attend the Critics Choice Awards, where the atmosphere quickly shifted from celebration to scrutiny. \u201cThe day of the snub, which suddenly turned into a negative event and a terrible thing, I had to go to the Critics Choice Awards,\u201d he recounted. \u201cI remember arriving and there\u2019s a red carpet line, like 500 people eager to talk to me, and every single one of them was like, \u2018Hi! So the snub\u2026\u2019 What do you say to that? \u2018It\u2019s a letdown!\u2019 I did end up winning the Critics Choice Award.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the professional accolade, the emotional impact remained. \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s just humiliating,\u201d Affleck continued. \u201cI wasn\u2019t the one out there saying, \u2018I\u2019m going to be nominated!\u2019 It\u2019s having to endure the process of then explaining why you didn\u2019t get nominated. I never claimed I was [going to be]!\u201d<\/p>\n More than ten years later, Affleck\u2019s candidness provides a rare insight into the pressures of awards season – and how even significant achievements can be overshadowed by public expectations and notable disappointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Reveals Being ‘Embarrassed’ After Oscar Snub For Argo Ben Affleck recently reflected on one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[132872,9896,102228,156,33327,7182,111,139,69,95086,2584,437,24764],"class_list":{"0":"post-221062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-argo","9":"tag-ben-affleck","10":"tag-critics-choice-awards","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hollywood-news","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-oscar","18":"tag-oscars","19":"tag-tv","20":"tag-zoom-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221062","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=221062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ben](\"https:\/\/images.zoomnews.com\/thumb\/resizemode-4,msid-83109085,width-360\/83109085.jpg\" "\\"\\"\/")
Ben Affleck in a still from Argo<\/p>\n