Ben Affleck still hasn’t entirely moved past the sting of being overlooked by the Oscars for “Argo.”

The 53-year-old actor recently reflected on the experience during a conversation with Jimmy Kimmel, where he acknowledged that his double win at the Critics’ Choice Awards came tinged with a bit of “sympathy.”

“Everyone kept telling me, ‘You’re going to get nominated as Best Director for ‘Argo,’’” Affleck recounted to Kimmel. “When the nominations were announced, and my name wasn’t there, it was quite a shock.”

He described the day as a disappointment, noting, “It wasn’t like any other day where I just didn’t get a nomination. That morning, the absence was glaring.”

Affleck added, “It became a major embarrassment when people started reminding me that I wasn’t on the list.”

The late-night host confessed that he thought of the “Gone Girl” actor while watching Leonardo DiCaprio lose Best Actor to Timothée Chalamet at the Critics’ Choice Awards on January 4.

“I was thinking about you because this is maybe the worst award show situation ever,” Kimmel said. “I think you’re underselling this because ‘Argo’ — not only was it nominated for the Oscars for Best Picture, you won Best Picture.”

“You starred in it and directed it, and you were not nominated in either category for the film,” he told Affleck. “Like it’s as if the movie directed itself.”

“Argo” won the 2013 Oscars for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Writing/Adapted Screenplay, and Best Achievement in Film Editing.

During his acceptance speech, the “Air” producer gave a nod to award-winning director Steven Spielberg, the other films that were nominated for the award, and Tony Mendez, the man on whom the film is based.

Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor that year for his performance as Former President Abraham Lincoln in the historical movie “Lincoln.” Hugh Jackman (“Les Misérables”), Denzel Washington (‘Flight”), Bradley Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”), and Joaquin Phoenix (“The Master”) were also nominated for the award.

“Argo,” starring Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, and Alan Arkin, follows a CIA agent acting undercover as a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film. In actuality, the agent is a part of an operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the US hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.

The “Town” actor revealed that he had to go to the Critics’ Choice Awards the day the Oscar nominations were announced, and had to face a “red carpet line” full of reporters.

“It seemed like there were 500 people dying to talk to me,” he recalled. “And every single one of them [said], ‘Hi. So, the snub. What do you say to that? Ha, ha, ha, yeah. It’s a bummer.’”

“Argo,” however, did win that night with the 2013 Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Director and Best Picture. But that didn’t stop the seasoned actor from feeling mortified.

“It’s just more embarrassing because, you know, I felt like okay. I wasn’t the one going out there being like, ‘I’m going to get. I’m going to get nominated,’” Affleck told Kimmel. “It was more kind of like having to be put through the ritual of them answering for why you didn’t get nominated.”

Affleck, alongside writer and actor Matt Damon, won the 1998 Oscars award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for their 1997 film “Good Will Hunting.”

The acting duo is currently working on the new Netflix movie “The Rip.”

Affleck brought up a funny memory of him and Damon when Kimmel asked about the duo’s dynamics on set.

“When we were doing the fight scenes, it did remind me of when we were teenagers, and I started getting taller than him, which he didn’t like,” Affleck said. “And all of a sudden, he’d be like, at his worst, he would say, ‘If I had your height, forget it. I’d be like, you know, I’d win the dunk contest.’”

The cop drama movie, based on a true story, follows “a group of Miami cops discovers a stash of millions in cash, leading to distrust as outsiders learn about the huge seizure, making them question who to rely on,” according to IMDB.

Affleck, who married Jennifer Lopez in July 2022, finalized their divorce in Jan. 2025 while the “Batman” actor was filming for the Netflix movie.

The movie will be available to stream on Netflix on January 16.