They became friends, but it was not until 1979 that she moved to live with him in California. Grant's friends felt that she hada positive impacton him, and Prince Rainier of Monaco remarked that Grant had "never been happier" than he was in his last years with her.[357]. "We met when you were 10 and I was 8..." "He tried to ride my coattails and he's been doing it ever since." BenAffleck and Matt Damon take us through their ... 'We got here this morning and Ben was three minutes early. He got here before me and that's the first time in 45 years he has not been late,' he teased. BenAffleck and Matt Damon opened up about their decades-long friendship while promoting their new film The Rip on the Today show. Actor Matt Damon and actor BenAffleck attend the 70th Annual Academy Awards on at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Matt Damon and BenAffleck after their Oscar win for 'Good Will Hunting' in 1998. Affleckhashada turbulent decade, between a high-profile and protracted divorce from Jennifer Garner, to admitting himself to treatment for alcohol addiction, to a return to the days of Bennifer (Affleck married ex-fianceé Jennifer Lopez in 2022, but they separated again in 2025). Matt Damon reflected on being by BenAffleck’s side during his friend’s divorces from Jennifer Garner and Jennifer Lopez in 2018 and 2025, respectively. Matt Damon has revealed that his wife of 20 years, Luciana Barroso, admitted to havinga crush on his best friend before they ever met. A few months into their relationship, Barroso told her now-husband that she initially thought BenAffleck, who co-starred with Damon in their 1997 film Good... FILE - BenAffleck, left, and Matt Damon present the award for best original screenplay at the Oscars on Feb.BenAffleck, left, and Matt Damon pose for a portrait to promote the film "Air" on Monday, , at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. Following BenAffleck's apology to Hilarie Burton for groping her during an early '00s TRL appearance, makeup artist Annamarie Tendler has alleged that the actor "grabbed my ass" during a Golden Globes party in 2014.I would like this to not have any negative impacton him. I find it sad." BenAffleckFilm ‘Hypnotic’ at Center of COVID Insurance Lawsuit.The policy hadan expiration date of — which would have covered the production under the original schedule. BenAffleck receive into bat-form. · BenAffleck reveals the "embarrassment" he felt after failing to get an Oscar nomination for his award-winning thriller, Argo. · Affleck was a frontrunner to land a nom. He won best director honors at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and BAFTAs. Alas, Affleck was snubbed while “Argo” went on to earn seven Oscar... · BenAffleck is addressing the “massive embarrassment” he experienced after the Oscars snubbed him in the Best Director category. · "But all of a sudden, it's a massive embarrassment. I woke up and people [said] you didn't get nominated," Affleck said. · BenAffleck is opening up about the immense embarrassment he felt after the Oscars snubbed him in the Best Director category. · 14 years after the release of Argo, BenAffleck looks back on the 2013 Oscars, reliving how it felt to lose out on a Best Director nomination. · He called his snub a “massive embarrassment.” Ben took home the top director prize at the Critics’ Choice Awards weeks before being omitted in that category by the Academy. He also has won numerous awards, including several Columbia Gold Circle Awards and an SPJ honor. He also wrote Dollar Deal: The Story of the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers, the first official book about the Dollar Baby film program.
