Ben Affleck has two Oscars...

[Rapmastermind]

but this won best picture without being nominated for best director, does that happen often?

Well the Academy put themselves in that position when they up the Best picture nods from 5 to 9. Before the 5 Director Nods had 5 Best Picture nods but that changed. When you have 9 Best Pictures, someone is going to get left out. This year is was Ben and Bigalo.

 

[prophecypro]

Funny thing is literally every other award show gave him best director too (BAFTA, SAGs Golden Globes)

 

[the next guy]

Funny thing is literally every other award show gave him best director too (BAFTA, SAGs Golden Globes)

I saw you on ONTD

 

[R=G]

He came back and did things the right way after the J Lo stuff backlash went down. Nice story.

 

[ryderldb]

Would you risk career failure to fukk J Lo in her prime?

 

[Omerta]

Yes Ben has two Oscars and he could of very well had 3 had he not gotten the Best Director sub. But the fact is this is just his 3rd Movie. So many great Directors waited years even decades to win an Oscar. Some never won it. This idea that Ben was intitled to a Best Director didn't fly with me. Again it was his 3rd movie. If you don't get nominated you come back stronger.

I'm happy for Ben and he is shaping up to be a pretty good Director. I've liked all 3 of his films. His actor career went way down but he came back strong with his directing career. Matt Damon had the better overall career and we all know Matt most likely wrote the bulk of "Good Will Hunting" and brought his boy Ben along for the ride. But again I can't hate, "Argo" was a good movie even though it made it seem like The Americans did most of the plan when it was the Canadians.

Can you be any more negative?

We all know Matt wrote most of Good Will Hunting? Really now? How many other great screenplays has he written? I'll give you the answer; two average Gus Van Sant movies that barely made any noise whereas Affleck wrote the screenplay for 2 critically acclaimed films, one of which was also 100 million plus at the Box Office. So don't make assumptions with no evidence.

Secondly, your notion that it's okay that he wasn't nominated for Best Director simply because it was 3rd film is stupid...it shouldn't matter whether it was his 1st or 100th...he deserved it. Did Denzel not deserve to win for Malcolm X because it was earlier in his career? He deserved that a million times more than Training Day. Time or career should have no impact, it should be about that film and that performance, nothing else.

 

[Egomaniacal1]

Thought i was the only one thinking about how J Lo must be on suicide watch as she watched him accept his 2nd Oscar while also giving that heartfelt shoutout to his WIFE, Jessica Biel who was tearing up....damn girl that coulda been you


Pure LAWSE

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Thought i was the only one thinking about how J Lo must be on suicide watch as she watched him accept his 2nd Oscar while also giving that heartfelt shoutout to his WIFE, Jennifer Garner who was tearing up....damn girl that coulda been you


Pure LAWSE

Fixed. We can't win all the time, Ben Affleck is doing all right

 

[Egomaniacal1]

Fixed. We can't win all the time, Ben Affleck is doing all right

Damn my bad, good catch i always get the Jenns mixed up.

 

[MikelArteta]

Argo is fake and takes a dump on the Canadian diplomat who was the real key in all this

Sent from royalty breh

 

[the next guy]

Thought i was the only one thinking about how J Lo must be on suicide watch as she watched him accept his 2nd Oscar while also giving that heartfelt shoutout to his WIFE, Jessica Biel who was tearing up....damn girl that coulda been you


Pure LAWSE

Yup. J Lo has her record sales but critical respect? Ha

 

[Danie84]

Ben.

He's right, it's know how you fall down, is how you get back up.

 

[the next guy]

Ben.

He's right, it's know how you fall down, is how you get back up.

 

[Ayo]

how did his movie get nominated for best picture but not him for best director of the best picture?

No one knew Argo was going to take best picture until it started sweeping all of the other awards before the Oscars. That's when it became the favorite. That's when it got the votes.

That's how this shyt works. Every year. The voters are only human. Easily influenced.

Did Argo deserve best picture? It's debatable. I saw all of the nominated movies and other than Zero Dark Thirty, Argo is most deserving.

Was the direction worthy of a Best Director nod? Not over Ang Lee. Not in my opinion anyway. Not when you consider the directors job. Ang Lee's task was much much tougher than Ben Afflecks.

Where I will hand it to Ben though is that he was able to take a bunch of different tones and meld them all together. The anger and seriousness in Iran, the lighthearted play in Hollywood, and the politics and buffoonery in Washington. All while keeping the tension up. But I'd credit a lot of that to editing and a good screenplay...not direction or decisions made on camera.

Am I hating? Nah, that's a Boston dude right there. I'll never hate on my own. Just don't think he deserved the director award.

 

[Ayo]

Matt Damon had the better overall career and we all know Matt most likely wrote the bulk of "Good Will Hunting" and brought his boy Ben along for the ride.

Actually, the Hollywood rumor and legend is that NEITHER of them wrote Good Will Hunting.

Which is a rumor I believed before I saw Gone Baby Gone and The Town.

In reality though, Good Will Hunting was initially a thriller. Based on script notes they came up with the end result.