Ben Affleck at the Golden Globe awards. Photo/AP
Ben Affleck didn't feel "entitled" to win an Oscar for Best Director this year.
The Argo director and star missed out on an Academy Award nomination despite winning a string of accolades over the past few weeks for his Iranian hostage drama but insists he is over the snub.
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40-year-old star told reporters in the press room after picking up the top prize Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Motion Picture at the Director's Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on the weekend: "You're not entitled to win anything. You're not entitled to anything in life. I'm really happy - I'm thrilled and honoured - that the Academy nominated me as a producer for the movie... It's okay. I'm really lucky. I'm in a great place."
Affleck - who is married to actress Jennifer Garner and has three children, Violet, seven, Seraphina, four, and Samuel, 11 months - admitted during his acceptance speech that he decided to become a director because he was so confused about his acting career.
He said: "I got to a point in my life where I was really down, really confused, really felt beset on all sides by life, didn't know what was going to happen. [So] I thought, 'I should be a director!'
