Minnie Driver has just revealed why she looked "devastated" when ex Matt Damon won his Oscar

The two actors came out after the meeting on the set of the good will of hunting.


The 1998 Oscars were a huge night for the team behind Good will . The film was in place for nine prizes, including the best film, and ended up winning two: the best support actor for Robin Williams And the best original scenario for Matt Damon And Ben Affleck . (To refresh your memory, the even larger winner of the ceremony was Titanic .) The price of the scenario was considered an upheaval, as Good will was the first script of Damon and Affleck, who were both in their twenties at the time. When the friends went on stage, they gave a joyful and enthusiastic speech that remains one of the most memorable moments of the evening. But a person who looks at the public did not seem too happy: Good will co-star and Ex of Damon Minnie Driver , which has just opened on social networks with what it felt when it happened.

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In an Instagram comment, Driver explained why she looks upset in a clip of their acceptance which includes the reaction of the public. In October, the Instagram account @Movieshmood published a Video of the Speech by Affleck and Damon It also shows some of their co-stars and directors Gus Van Sant Watch from the crowd. When the clip flashes to the driver, she does not smile. The @CommentsbyCelebrities account stressed in a recent article This driver commented , "My face" with four crying emoji and a heart, on the video @Movieshmood.

Another Instagram user commented: "Minnie looks so sad."

"Matt had ended our relationships a few weeks before that, and was at the Oscars with his new girlfriend ... I was devastated", Driver, who was nominated for the best support actress for Good will , wrote in response to this comment. "I would like to have been able to celebrate more because it was an incredible moment for all of us, and for this wonderful film!"

Damon and Driver met when they started filming Good will And started going out together. But, The relationship ended Before the film was honored with the Oscars. According to the driver, Damon announced his split when he was on The Oprah Winfrey Show , who would have been the first she had heard of it. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It is regrettable that Matt continued Oprah ; It seemed to be a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found incredibly inappropriate, " Driver told THE Los Angeles Times in July 1998. "Of course, he was busy declaring his love for me David Letterman A month before. ""

It seems that the girlfriend's driver mentioned in his Instagram comment was Winona Ryder . While Damon and Ryder were not photographed together at the Oscars, she was at the Vanity Fair Oscar Day that year, and they were photographed at the Pre-Oscar party in Miramax. The actors are Known for starting to go out together At that time before breaking in 2000.

Matt Damon and Winona Ryder at the Miramax Films Pre-Oscar Party in 1998
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As for the date of Damon to the real show, it was his mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige . In a video of April 2023 for Vanity ,, Damon and Affleck looked back During their prize ceremony evening. "I remember how everyone had done such a great thing as if it was such a novelty," said Affleck of them, bringing their mothers. "And I remember thinking, being unsure, like" why? Why is it weird that we bring our mothers? "Like:" Who else do you think we will bring? ""

The driver and Damon have both spent their split for a long time, which occurred 25 years ago. On an episode in 2021 of the podcast Keep it! ( via Today ), Driver said she had met Damon more recently. "It was last summer and it was actually very pleasant to see him, and his children, and his wife and all that seemed enough average age in fact, which was reassuring," she declared. "I have the impression that a large part of the madness of young people continued with our initial relationship, as if it was incredible and tabloid. So it was pleasant to have just a kind of conversation of age Middle on weather and stuff. "

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