Ben Affleck's Argot won the top prize at SAG. (Golden Globes, too).

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57566078/sag-awards-2013-argo-wins-top-prize/

Affleck was also honored for Argo at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

http://www.itn.co.uk/Entertainment/67083/ben-affleck-honoured-at-santa-barbara-film-festival



Not even nominated for the Oscars, though.

I remember hearing the Oscar nominations while still half asleep. I don't even know which station was on or which movie expert was sitting next to the anchor. But, the conversation went something like this.

Movie Expert, brought on to morning show for the occasion.

"Wow. The headline is that Ben Affleck was not nominated."

Anchor, trying to sound knowledgeable, probably based on comments made by the expert while both were awaiting the Oscar nomination remote broadcast:

"Well, Quention Tarantino....."

Movie Expert uncharacteristically talking emphatically, right over the host, instead of the usual deferential pandering:

"NO! The ONLY headline is that Ben Affleck was not nominated for Best Director. That's it. End of story. There is nothing else to be said."

Anchor:

Silence.



LOL, I wonder if that show will be hiring a different movie expert the next time.



Damon and Affleck are great for Boston, including by filming Good Will Hunting and The Town here and showing up here for a lot of Red Sox games.

So, I am with the movie expert. Also with George Clooney, who has made at least one televised crack about failure of "the" Academy to nominate Affleck.

What I will be doing February 24:



j/k I will be praying that the voters of "the" Academy are delivered from their jealousy and/or poor judgment before they make another mistake as huge as this. Also, praying that whoever wins Best Director has the grace to mention the error in failing to nominate Ben Affleck.


j/k again. Like every Ms. America contestant, I pray only for the really big things.

[Enthusiast]

1. Yeah, but.

Damon and Affleck are lefties. The less we hear from them the better it will be for the nation. No nomination for the Oscars for you!

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2. Hollywood is no longer as all left as it was from say, 1930-1970.

Just ask Mel Gibson, Tom Selleck and the groups that are younger than they are.

But, still, I don't think "left" is a disqualifier in Hollywood, though "liberal" may be a disqualifier. Damon, being an outspoken critic of Obama critic, has been bashed even by the likes of George Clooney, whose left values I admire (except for his bashing of Damon).

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3. You are funny, No Elephants.

John Voit is the worst.

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4. Have you forgotten Clint Eastwood and the chair?

I cannot say one Hollywood Republican is worse than all the others.

Sonny Bono. How can you be the former husband of Cher, the Dad of a transexual and a Republican Congressmand?

Tom Selleck and his 2nd Amendment rights.

Speaking of which, there was the late Charlton Heston.

Mel Gibson, such a Catholic purist that he actually accused Pope John of being the anti-Christ (literally). Then divorces his wife and mother of his umpteen children and beats up his pregnant lover.

They're all prizes.

[Enthusiast]

5. "They're all prizes."

They're a bunch of nuts!

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6. If getting money from Koch and others means theyre nuts, they don't want to be sane.

Then again, Democrats are not shy about getting money, either.

Hasn't seemed to bother the Clintons much.