Years after \u201cArgo\u201d went on to win Best Picture, Ben Affleck is revisiting the part of that Oscar season he remembers least fondly: the morning his name wasn\u2019t called for Best Director. <\/strong>Speaking candidly about the experience, Affleck explained how the constant assurances from the industry made the omission feel less like a disappointment and more like a public reckoning he never signed up for.<\/p>\n Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Affleck said the experience became uncomfortable long before nominations were even announced, largely because of what people kept telling him. \u201cIt was the horrible thing of everyone telling you, \u2018You\u2019re gonna get nominated, you\u2019re gonna get nominated for director,\u2019\u201d<\/strong> he recalled. That constant buildup created an expectation he never publicly claimed for himself, but one he was ultimately expected to answer for.<\/p>\n Source: IMDb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When nomination morning arrived, Affleck said the emotional shift was immediate. \u201cI wake up that morning and sure enough I had not been nominated for best director,\u201d he said, adding that \u201call of a sudden, it\u2019s a massive embarrassment.\u201d<\/strong> What struck him most wasn\u2019t the snub itself, but how quickly it became the defining story. \u201cI woke up and people [said], \u2018You didn\u2019t get nominated,\u2019\u201d he remembered, as if the omission required an explanation.<\/p>\n The timing only made things more awkward. On the same day the news broke, Affleck still had to attend the Critics Choice Awards, stepping onto a red carpet filled with reporters. \u201cThere\u2019s a red carpet line, like 500 people dying to talk to me,\u201d he said, \u201cand every single one of them was like, \u2018Hi! So the snub\u2026\u2019\u201d <\/strong>Affleck laughed at the absurdity of it now, but admitted at the time there was little to say beyond acknowledging the disappointment. \u201cWhat do you say to that? \u2018It\u2019s a bummer!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Affleck also pointed out the irony that often gets lost in the narrative. Despite the fixation on what he didn\u2019t receive, he actually won that night. \u201cI did end up winning the Critics Choice Award,\u201d he said, before circling back to the larger issue. \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s just embarrassing.\u201d As he explained on the show, the worst part wasn\u2019t missing out on a nomination, but being forced into what he called \u201cthe ritual of then answering for why you didn\u2019t get nominated,\u201d<\/strong> especially when, as he put it, \u201cI wasn\u2019t the one going out there being like, \u2018I\u2019m going to be nominated!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\nBen Affleck on the \u2018Argo\u2019 Oscar Snub and the Awards Season Pressure<\/h2>\n
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