{"id":2244294,"date":"2026-01-21T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2244294"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:30:23","slug":"matt-damon-rips-into-oscars-campaigning-completely-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/matt-damon-rips-into-oscars-campaigning-completely-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon rips into Oscars campaigning: &#8216;Completely backwards&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Matt Damon feels no goodwill toward Oscars time.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who will star this summer in Christopher Nolan\u2019s hotly anticipated \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d was asked <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/matt-damon-the-rip\/id1468510314?i=1000745764532\">on Netflix\u2019s \u201cSkip Intro\u201d podcast<\/a> what he doesn\u2019t dig about show business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwards season,\u201d he said. \u201c100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damon, 55, has been nominated for three acting Oscars during his career \u2014 for \u201cGood Will Hunting,\u201d \u201cInvictus\u201d and \u201cThe Martian.\u201d And alongside friend and \u201cGood Will Hunting\u201d collaborator Ben Affleck, he won the Academy Award for best screenplay in 1998.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8705202\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8705202\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/01\/american-actor-matt-damon-seen-119278247.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Actor Matt Damon smiling while wearing a conference badge around his neck at the World Economic Forum.\" class=\"wp-image-8705202\"\/><figcaption>Matt Damon says he is putt off by awards season campaigning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the star of \u201cThe Rip\u201d doesn\u2019t enjoy all the wheeling and dealing that happens on the road to victory at the Dolby Theater.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhat I don\u2019t like is this idea of campaigning,\u201d Damon said. \u201cIt seems completely backwards to me and odd. Maybe it\u2019s good for movies, just having it all out there and gets the culture thinking and talking about movies. I hope that\u2019s the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a strong chance, however, that he\u2019ll have to endure some Q&amp;As and shake a few voters\u2019 hands next year. Nolan\u2019s last film, \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d won seven Oscars in 2024, including best picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The visionary\u2019s latest project is massive, Damon told the podcast \u2014 going so far as to compare it to the epic work of the director of \u201cLawrence of Arabia.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8705203\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8705203\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/01\/matt-damon-hold-oscars-winning-119379419.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ben Affleck and Matt Damon holding up their Oscars for Original Screenplay.\" class=\"wp-image-8705203\"\/><figcaption>Damon and Ben Affleck won the Oscar for best screenplay in 1998.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/entertainment\/matt-damon-reveals-his-strict-diet-for-ripped-odyssey-look-that-got-him-back-to-high-school-weight\/\">\u201cDoing \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 this last year, <\/a>it felt like my one chance in my life to make a David Lean movie, you know?\u201d he said. \u201cThat I was making the last big movie on film that I was ever going to get to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damon plays the legendary Greek king Odysseus in Nolan\u2019s movie, which also stars Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Zendaya and Charlize Theron. It hits theaters July 17.<\/p>\n<p>The budget for the flick that was shot entirely on 70 MM IMAX film cameras is about $250 million, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/nolan-odyssey-first-blockbuster-to-only-use-imax-cameras-1236217925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Damon feels no goodwill toward Oscars time. The actor, who will star this summer in Christopher Nolan\u2019s hotly anticipated \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d was asked on Netflix\u2019s \u201cSkip Intro\u201d podcast what he doesn\u2019t dig about show business. \u201cAwards season,\u201d he said. \u201c100%.\u201d Damon, 55, has been nominated for three acting Oscars during his career \u2014 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[25538,21741,21993,344851,21912,344473],"class_list":["post-2244294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-actors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-matt-damon","tag-movies","tag-oscars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Matt-Damon-rips-into-Oscars-campaigning-Completely-backwards.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244296,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244294\/revisions\/2244296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}