‘It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life ... all that matters is that you gotta get up’ — List of Ben Affleck Oscar nominations
Posted: November 2025
List of Oscar nominations and wins for Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards and won twice. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia
WON: 2012: Argo (Best Picture) (shared with Grant Heslov, George Clooney) — Other nominees: Django Unchained (Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone), Les Misérables (Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh), Life of Pi (Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark), Amour (Stefan Arndt, Margaret Ménégoz, Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz), Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald), Silver Linings Playbook (Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen, Jonathan Gordon), Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison), Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy)
WON: 1997: Good Will Hunting (Best Original Screenplay) (shared with Matt Damon) — Other nominees: Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), As Good as It Gets (Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks), The Full Monty (Simon Beaufoy), Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon at the 1998 Oscars