Ben
Affleck
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Ben Affleck has been recognized for his work as a director, actor, writer, and producer. He is the recipient of two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award, and two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, among other accolades.
In 2022, Affleck and Matt Damon teamed to launch Artists Equity, an artist-led studio that creates entrepreneurial partnerships with filmmakers to empower their creative vision. Serving as Chief Executive Officer, Affleck oversees all aspects of the company in its pursuit of its core principles of broadening access to profit participation and fueling IP monetization through creator partnerships.
The first film Artists Equity produced is Air, the critically acclaimed, fact-based feature about the game-changing 1984 shoe deal between Nike and then-rookie Michael Jordan. Affleck directed and starred in the film, which also stars Damon, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans and Chris Tucker. Air premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it received a prolonged standing ovation.
Recent projects of Artists Equity include Apple’s heist comedy The Instigators, and the U2 documentary feature Kiss the Future. Upcoming releases include the biographical sports drama Unstoppable, the historical drama starring Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These, the action thriller The Accountant 2 and the musical drama Kiss of the Spider Woman.
As an actor, Affleck recently received a SAG Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in Amazon’s The Tender Bar, and received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination, for Best Actor, for his starring role in The Way Back.
In 2012, Affleck directed, produced and starred in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, Argo, which also won Golden Globe, BAFTA, Producers Guild of America, and numerous critics group awards for Best Picture. Affleck was also honored with a Golden Globe, DGA Award, BAFTA Award and Critics’ Choice Award, for Best Director, and shared in a SAG Award win for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast.
Affleck had made his feature film directorial debut on the 2007 drama Gone Baby Gone, which he also scripted and for which he received a Best Directorial Debut Award from the National Board of Review. He went on to write, direct and star in the dramas The Town and Live by Night, the latter of which he also produced. Together with Matt Damon, he recently wrote, produced and starred in the 2021 historical drama The Last Duel, for director Ridley Scott.
Early in his career, he and Damon won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 1997 acclaimed drama Good Will Hunting, in which they also co-starred. The duo also won Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards, for Best Screenplay, and received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination. Additionally, they shared in a SAG Award nomination, for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast.
In 2007, Affleck earned several accolades, including a Critics’ Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of George Reeves in Hollywoodland. His long list of acting credits also includes John Madden’s Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Extract, Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, David Fincher’s Gone Girl, Triple Frontier, Deep Water, and Hypnotic.
Affleck has also starred as DC’s iconic superhero Batman and his alter-ego, Bruce Wayne, in three films. Most recently, he reprised his role in Andy Muschietti’s The Flash.
Upcoming, Affleck will star in the sequel to his 2016 crime thriller The Accountant for Amazon Prime.
In 2000, Affleck partnered with Matt Damon, Chris Moore and Sean Bailey to form LivePlanet. Their first endeavor, Project Greenlight, premiered in 2001 on HBO and drew critical, audience and industry attention for its behind-the-scenes look at the challenges faced by a first-time filmmaker. The second season of Project Greenlight aired on HBO in 2003, with a third season on Bravo in 2005. All three seasons were nominated for Emmy Awards. The fourth season of Project Greenlight aired on HBO in 2015.
Affleck’s own Pearl Street Productions co-produced such films as Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant and written and produced by Matt Damon and John Krasinski; Jason Bourne; and the Academy Award-nominated drama Manchester by the Sea. The company also co-produced Incorporated for the Syfy Channel, written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, and Showtime’s drama series City on A Hill, among other projects.
Outside of his successful film career, Affleck is also a passionate advocate and philanthropist who supports many charitable organizations. In March 2010, he founded the Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI), the first U.S.-based advocacy and grant-making initiative wholly focused on the mission of helping the people of eastern Congo support local community-based approaches that create a sustainable and successful society in the long-troubled region.