Ben Affleck talks about the enormous shame he felt after the Oscars rejected him in the Best Director category.
Affleck, 53, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, January 5, where he was reminded of the criticism of his work Argowhich won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year.
“It was the year where everyone told you, ‘You’re going to be nominated, you’re going to be nominated for director,’” Affleck told host Jimmy Kimmel.
“And so of course I wake up that morning, and sure enough – and that’s not it, by the way [unlike] every other morning I wasn’t nominated for Best Director. But suddenly it’s a huge shame. I woke up and people [said]’You’re not nominated,'” the Oscar winner recalled.
Kimmel likened the situation to watching Leonardo DiCaprio lose the Best Actor award to Timothée Chalamet at last night’s Critics’ Choice Awards, while One Battle After Another — the film starring DiCaprio — won Best Picture and Best Director at the ceremony.
“I think you’re underestimating this. Because not only was Argo nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, you also won Best Picture. You starred in it and directed it, and you weren’t nominated in either category… it’s like the movie directed itself,” Kimmel noted.
