Ben Affleck was hit with massive embarrassment after Argo Oscars snub

Hollywood actor Ben Affleck has spoken up on the massive embarrassment that hit him after he was snubbed in the Best Director category at the OscarsThe 53yearold star was widely expected to be nominated in 2013 for helming the thriller Argo which won the Best Picture award reports lsquoFemale First UKrsquoHowever the actor admitted that it was tough to miss out after constantly being told that he would be up for the awardSpeaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live Ben said It was the year the horrible thing of everyone telling you Youre gonna get nominated youre gonna get nominated for directorrsquo And so of course I wake up that morning and sure enough and by the way its not unlike any other morning that I had not been nominated for Best Director But all of a sudden its a massive embarrassment I woke up and people said You didnt get nominatedrsquordquoKimmel explained that he had thought of Ben as he watched Leonardo DiCaprio miss out on the Best Actor prize to Timothee Chalamet at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday even though his film One Battle After Another won the awards for Best Picture and Best DirectorThe 58yearold TV host said I was thinking boy hes got so many better places to be And the movie wins Best Picture The director Paul Thomas Anderson wins Best Director and then he doesnt win And Im thinking he must be so p that he had to leave whatever he got airlifted from a yacht somewhere and couldnt be there anymore He came to loserdquoAs per lsquoFemale First UKrsquo Ben Affleck confessed that he felt similar when he fielded questions about his Argo snub on the red carpet at the 2013 Critics Choice AwardsThe actor said It seemed like there were 500 people dying to talk to me And every single one of them said Hi so the snub What do you say to that Ha ha ha yeah Its a bummerrsquordquoBen once again teams up with his childhood friend Matt Damon in the new action thriller film The Rip and loves getting to work with his understated palHe told GQ magazine Every time I act with Matt is a humbling experience because I learn to appreciate further just how good an actor he is He is so understated so real and so honest itrsquos the opposite of a showy performance and I think what he does is more difficult When you know someone as long as Irsquove known Matt you develop a pretty good sense of what is real and what isnrsquot and itrsquos almost impossible to catch Matt actingrdquoldquoHe is really a master of realism and itrsquos something I deeply admire about him One of many thingsrdquo he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoeverThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever