Ben Affleck has had a LOT of his life raked over the coals by critics… but there’s one moment that stands out as the most “embarrassing” to him personally!
The 53-year-old appeared on Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he got candid about a major career hurdle — and spoiler alert, he’s not talking about his critically condemned 2003 movie with Jennifer Lopez Gigli!
While chatting with the talk show host, Ben admitted when he lost out on an Oscar nomination for Best Director for his 2012 film Argo, it felt like a “massive embarrassment” — particularly because the film was nominated AND WON for Best Picture. He said:
“It was the year, the horrible thing of everyone telling you, ‘You’re gonna get nominated, you’re gonna get nominated for director.’ And so, of course, I wake up that morning, and sure enough — and, by the way, it’s not [unlike] any other morning that I had not been nominated for Best Director. But all of a sudden, it’s a massive embarrassment. I woke up and people [said], ‘You didn’t get nominated.’”
Oof.
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Ben went on:
“It’s just more embarrassing because I wasn’t the one going out there like, ‘I’m going to get it, I’m going to get nominated,’ and so it was more, like, having to be put through the ritual of then answering for why you didn’t get nominated … It was a little bit embarrassing.”
Jimmy tacked on:
“This is maybe the worst award-show situation ever. I think you’re underselling this. Because Argo, not only was it nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, you won Best Picture. You starred in it and directed it, and you were not nominated in either category … it’s as if the movie directed itself.”
Yeesh!
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