NEW YORK – Ben Affleck isn’t just a good director, he’s a great director and “Argo” is thus far the pinnacle of the Oscar-winning star’s career.

This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, center, in "Argo," a rescue thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Claire Folger) ...

Ben Affleck fuming over Gwyneth Paltrow for sharing intimate details in Amy Odell’s tell-all book, Gwyneth: The Biography.A ...

Ben Affleck's "Argo" established itself as one of the year's undeniable crowd-pleasers at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals – a tense, funny, adrenaline-charged reconstruction of the ...

I must emphasize that “Argo” was my number one film of 2012, out of the 200-plus films that I saw. I was certain that Affleck would be nominated for Best Director, and I considered him the ...

Ben Affleck: Life in pictures The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Morgenstern agrees that Affleck has come into his own as a filmmaker, writing, “as director and star of ‘Argo,’ he has deployed ...

Ben Affleck Admits He Was Angry Over ‘Argo’ Oscar Snub After Kissing Babies And Schmoozing ‘Everybody In The World’ Mike Redmond Contributing Writer Twitter December 17, 2021 ...

Ben Affleck was named best director for the based-on-reality story of a longshot plan to rescue a group of American diplomats from Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and the film also took ...

The Painstaking Work of Making ‘Argo’ Authentic For Ben Affleck and his best picture-nominated team, re-creating the escape of six Americans trapped during the Iran hostage crisis was all ...

Oscar winner directs the film and plays its title character, Tony Mendez. Sept. 28, 2012— -- On Nov. 4, 1979, an angry mob stormed an American embassy in Iran. For 444 days, the world watched ...

Ben Affleck is somewhat flattered that the government of Iran is financing a movie called The General Staff based on the story told in his movie Argo that came out of the 1979-81 hostage crisis ...

The dramatic real story behind “Argo” meant that director Ben Affleck had to invent very little to create cinematic drama. However, the movie wasn’t entirely without a little Hollywood-style ...