“We had Editing, Score, Picture. The only guy who f—ed up was the lead and the director?» Affleck told Howard Stern about the 2013 snub
Ben Affleck’s Oscar snub for Best Director and Best Actor nominations for «Argo» was nearly a decade ago, but it’s one he never forgot. At the time, despite trying to downplay it in red carpet interviews in the days that followed, Affleck was very sore about it. And the bruise still remains. «We had Editing, Score, Picture. The only guy who f—ed up was the lead and the director? I can do the math on who the asshole is here,» Affleck said in an interview with Howard Stern on Thursday in which he discussed how he went on an intensive awards campaign with Warner Bros. to get the nominations. «I did everything they told me. They told me, ‘You got to kiss the babies.’ And I schmoozed everybody in the world right. Part of this [is] because you’re the director, but truth is, I wanted it,» he said.
