Ben Affleck walked clear of the 2013 Oscars with one heck of a comfort prize for his Best Director snub. The Argo filmmaker and his staff captured the evening’s most sensible award, beating out eight other nominees, including Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook, for Best Picture on the Feb. 24 ceremony in L.A.
Affleck, 40, was once visibly emotional as he approved the coveted honor. He said the competition, thanked everybody who had worked on or within the movie, after which became the attention to his wife, Jennifer Garner, who has been a gentle presence at his facet throughout this yr’s awards season.
The critically acclaimed superstar choked up as he expressed his gratitude toward Garner, no longer for her paintings at the film — “I typically don’t affiliate [her] with Iran,” he quipped all the way through his speech — but for her work on their marriage over the last “10 Christmases.” (Technically, seven; the couple married in 2005.)
“It’s work, but it surely’s the best paintings there is,” the director mentioned of his dating along with his wife, also 40, mom of his 3 children, Violet, 7, Seraphina, 4, and Samuel, Eleven months. “And there’s no one else I’d reasonably work with.” (Garner looked on from the audience, beaming.)
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Affleck additionally opened up in his speech about overcoming demanding situations to get to where he is lately. “I used to be right here a couple of years in the past, and I had no idea what I was doing,” mentioned the star, who received a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1998 for Good Will Hunting with friend Matt Damon — adopted via a spate of badly reviewed field office flops. “I by no means concept I’d get again right here.”
“You have to work more difficult than you assume you possibly can,” he continued. “It’s exhausting. But you can’t hang grudges. And it doesn’t matter in the event you get knocked down in life. All that matters is that you simply gotta get again up.”
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