--- name: "Ben Affleck" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ben-affleck" fi1m_id: "ben-affleck" imdb_id: "nm0000255" tmdb_id: 880 wikidata_id: "Q483118" roles: ["Actor","Producer","Director"] born: "15 August 1972" reviewed_on_fi1m: 21 average_fi1m_score: 62 average_as: "actor" average_over: 13 updated: "2026-10-22T01:59:41.841000+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Ben Affleck ## Identity Ben Affleck - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ben-affleck - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** ben-affleck - **IMDb ID:** nm0000255 - **TMDB ID:** 880 - **Wikidata ID:** Q483118 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483118, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/880 Actor and producer. Born 15 August 1972 in Berkeley, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor, Producer, Director - **Born:** 15 August 1972, Berkeley, California, USA - **Active:** 1993–present - **Also known as:** Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt, Benjamin Géza Affleck, Benjamin Geza Affleck, Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt - **Titles on Fi1m:** 21: 13 acting, 4 directing, 1 producing, 3 other - **Frequently works with:** [Matt Damon](https://film.one/person/matt-damon.md), [Chris Terrio](https://film.one/person/chris-terrio.md), [Kevin Smith](https://film.one/person/kevin-smith.md), [Aaron Stockard](https://film.one/person/aaron-stockard.md), [Amy Adams](https://film.one/person/amy-adams.md), [Arnon Milchan](https://film.one/person/arnon-milchan.md), [Charles Roven](https://film.one/person/charles-roven.md), [Deborah Snyder](https://film.one/person/deborah-snyder.md) - **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as actor, over 13 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 83 (1), 1990s 75 (5), 2000s 55 (3), 2010s 59 (7), 2020s 66 (5) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 62 to 59 across 13 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 5 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 6 of 13 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Action 6, Adventure 6, Comedy 6, Drama 6, Thriller 3, Crime 2 - **Screen time:** 28 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $3,090m across 12 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Affleck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483118, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/880 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Town*](https://film.one/film/the-town.md) (77), [*Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*](https://film.one/film/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice.md) (44), [*Justice League*](https://film.one/film/justice-league.md) (40) - **Netflix:** [*Gone Girl*](https://film.one/film/gone-girl.md) (84), [*The Rip*](https://film.one/film/the-rip.md) (65) - **Apple TV:** [*Argo*](https://film.one/film/argo.md) (79), [*Shakespeare in Love*](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md) (79) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Air*](https://film.one/film/air.md) (70), [*Gigli*](https://film.one/film/gigli.md) (32) - **Paramount+:** [*Good Will Hunting*](https://film.one/film/good-will-hunting.md) (82) - **Hulu:** [*Gone Baby Gone*](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md) (79) - **Pluto TV:** [*Jay and Silent Bob Reboot*](https://film.one/film/jay-and-silent-bob-reboot.md) (50) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Ben Affleck > Ben Affleck's ease on screen can read as innocence or as something worse, and he is most alive when a director like David Fincher makes use of the doubt. Behind the camera he is good with actors and too kind to himself. Watch Nick Dunne trying to be an ordinary husband in *Gone Girl* (2014). Nothing in Affleck's face is doing very much, and that is the performance: a large, affable man whose friendliness looks like effort, while David Fincher lets us decide whether the effort is guilt or simply a man who has never had to try before. We laughed at the strain in it, then felt uncomfortable at how quickly we had joined the crowd judging him, and the film could not work without that. Affleck's habit is to underplay and let the audience supply the suspicion. When it works, it is the best thing he does. He arrived as a writer as much as an actor. *Good Will Hunting* (1997), written with Matt Damon, gave him Chuckie, the friend who says the blunt thing, and the film is funniest in his scenes. Then the studios made him a leading man, in *Armageddon* (1998), where the tenderness the script asked for came out visible and calculated, and *Pearl Harbor* (2001). The low point was *Gigli* (2003), where he pushed bluster at a part that needed none, and we were bored by every line of it. Kevin Smith used him better: Bartleby in *Dogma* (1999) is an angel who has heard it all before, and Affleck plays the boredom lightly. The turn came when he went behind the camera. *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), *The Town* (2010) and *Argo* (2012) are three good thrillers, all more interested in the people around the hero than in the hero. He lets Amy Ryan make a difficult mother harder to like, gives Alan Arkin and John Goodman room to run their scenes, and gives Jeremy Renner enough danger that Doug MacRay's caution looks like sense. His own performances in those films are steady and thin, and his scripts, with Aaron Stockard and Chris Terrio, keep pleading his character's case. He and his editor William Goldenberg also push the suspense in *Argo* harder than it needs. *Air* (2023) is the cleanest of them, quick and funny and shot by Robert Richardson in soft amber, and there is not a frame in it you would remember on the way home. He has said he finds directing the most satisfying, and it shows: as a director he is patient, sure with his casts and not much curious about what they are leaving unsaid. As an actor he needs someone else to be curious for him. The one performance of his we would send a stranger to is the one where he only had to act. ## Biography Ben Affleck is an American actor and filmmaker. Born on 15 August 1972 in Berkeley, California, he began his career as a child actor in the PBS series The Voyage of the Mimi. Affleck rose to prominence with his childhood friend Matt Damon for co-writing and starring in Good Will Hunting (1997). He later directed and starred in Argo (2012), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. His other notable acting roles include Armageddon (1998) and Gone Girl (2014). In 2023, Affleck directed, produced and played Nike co-founder Phil Knight in the biographical sports drama Air. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (21) ### Performed in (13) — the average rests on these - *The Rip* (2026), Fi1m 65, as Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne — [page](https://film.one/film/the-rip.md) - *The Last Duel* (2021), Fi1m 65, as Pierre d'Alençon — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-duel.md) - *Jay and Silent Bob Reboot* (2019), Fi1m 50, as Holden McNeil — [page](https://film.one/film/jay-and-silent-bob-reboot.md) - *Justice League* (2017), Fi1m 40, as Batman / Bruce Wayne — [page](https://film.one/film/justice-league.md) - *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice* (2016), Fi1m 44, as Bruce Wayne / Batman — [page](https://film.one/film/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice.md) - *Gone Girl* (2014), Fi1m 84, as Nick Dunne — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-girl.md) - *Gigli* (2003), Fi1m 32, as Larry Gigli — [page](https://film.one/film/gigli.md) - *Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back* (2001), Fi1m 54, as Holden McNeil / Ben Affleck — [page](https://film.one/film/jay-and-silent-bob-strike-back.md) - *Dogma* (1999), Fi1m 66, as Bartleby — [page](https://film.one/film/dogma.md) - *Armageddon* (1998), Fi1m 64, as A.J. Frost — [page](https://film.one/film/armageddon.md) - *Shakespeare in Love* (1998), Fi1m 79, as Ned Alleyn — [page](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md) - *Good Will Hunting* (1997), Fi1m 82, as Chuckie Sullivan — [page](https://film.one/film/good-will-hunting.md) - *Dazed and Confused* (1993), Fi1m 86, as O'Bannion — [page](https://film.one/film/dazed-and-confused.md) ### Directed (4) - *Air* (2023), Fi1m 70, as Phil Knight — [page](https://film.one/film/air.md) - *Argo* (2012), Fi1m 79, as Tony Mendez — [page](https://film.one/film/argo.md) - *The Town* (2010), Fi1m 77, as Doug MacRay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-town.md) - *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), Fi1m 79, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md) ### Produced (1) - *Small Things Like These* (2024), Fi1m 79, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md) ### Also credited (3) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *The Flash* (2023), Fi1m 50, as Bruce Wayne / Batman (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-flash.md) - *Suicide Squad* (2016), Fi1m 41, as Bruce Wayne (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/suicide-squad.md) - *Field of Dreams* (1989), Fi1m 83, as Baseball Fan (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/field-of-dreams.md) ## Complete filmography (117) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Animals* (2026), as Mark Kimball · Director, Producer, Writer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/animals.md) - *A Statement* (2026), Executive Producer - *The Rip* (2026), as Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne · Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-rip.md) - *Civilware2025* (2025), Writer - *The Merchants of Joy* (2025), Executive Producer - *Kiss of the Spider Woman* (2025), Executive Producer - *The Accountant²* (2025), as Christian Wolff · Producer - *Unstoppable* (2024), Producer - *Small Things Like These* (2024), Executive Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md) - *The Instigators* (2024), Producer - *Kiss the Future* (2024), Producer - *This Is Me…Now* (2024), as Rex Stone / Biker - *Making The Flash: Worlds Collide* (2023), Thanks - *The Flash* (2023), as Bruce Wayne / Batman (uncredited) — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/the-flash.md) - *For People in Trouble* (2023), Producer - *Hypnotic* (2023), as Danny Rourke - *Air* (2023), as Phil Knight · Producer, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/air.md) - *Clerks III* (2022), as Auditioner - *Deep Water* (2022), as Vic Van Allen - *The Tender Bar* (2021), as Charlie Maguire - *The Last Duel* (2021), as Pierre d'Alençon · Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-duel.md) - *Zack Snyder's Justice League* (2021), as Batman / Bruce Wayne · Executive Producer - *The Way Back* (2020), as Jack Cunningham - *The Last Thing He Wanted* (2020), as Treat Morrison - *Jay and Silent Bob Reboot* (2019), as Holden McNeil — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/jay-and-silent-bob-reboot.md) - *City on a Hill* (2019), series, Executive Producer - *Triple Frontier* (2019), as Tom 'Redfly' Davis - *Justice League* (2017), as Batman / Bruce Wayne · Executive Producer — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/justice-league.md) - *Bending the Arc* (2017), Executive Producer - *Live by Night* (2016), as Joe Coughlin · Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Incorporated* (2016), series, Executive Producer - *The Accountant* (2016), as Christian Wolff - *Suicide Squad* (2016), as Bruce Wayne (uncredited) — Fi1m 41, [page](https://film.one/film/suicide-squad.md) - *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice* (2016), as Bruce Wayne / Batman — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice.md) - *The Leisure Class* (2015), Producer - *Gone Girl* (2014), as Nick Dunne — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/gone-girl.md) - *E:60 - Dream On: Stories of Boston's Strongest* (2014), as Narrator - *2013 Boston Red Sox: The Official World Series Film* (2013), as Narrator - *Runner Runner* (2013), as Ivan Block - *To the Wonder* (2013), as Neil - *Argo* (2012), as Tony Mendez · Director, Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/argo.md) - *The Company Men* (2010), as Bobby Walker - *The Town* (2010), as Doug MacRay · Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-town.md) - *The Messenger* (2009), Thanks - *Extract* (2009), as Dean - *State of Play* (2009), as Stephen Collins - *He's Just Not That Into You* (2009), as Neil - *Reporter* (2009), Executive Producer - *Gimme Shelter* (2008), Director - *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md) - *Smokin' Aces* (2006), as Jack Dupree - *Hollywoodland* (2006), as George Reeves - *Clerks II* (2006), as Gawking Guy - *Man About Town* (2006), as Jack Giamoro - *Feast* (2005), Executive Producer - *Surviving Christmas* (2004), as Drew Latham - *Jersey Girl* (2004), as Ollie Trinke - *Paycheck* (2003), as Michael Jennings - *The Curse of the Bambino* (2003), as Narrator - *The Battle of Shaker Heights* (2003), Executive Producer - *Gigli* (2003), as Larry Gigli — Fi1m 32, [page](https://film.one/film/gigli.md) - *Daredevil* (2003), as Matt Murdock / Daredevil - *Push, Nevada* (2002), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *The Sum of All Fears* (2002), as Jack Ryan - *The Third Wheel* (2002), as Michael · Executive Producer - *Changing Lanes* (2002), as Gavin Banek - *Stolen Summer* (2002), Producer - *Speakeasy* (2002), Executive Producer - *Roadside Attractions with Kevin Smith* (2002), Actor - *Project Greenlight* (2001), series, Executive Producer - *Revealed with Jules Asner* (2001), series, Actor - *Daddy and Them* (2001), as Lawrence Bowen - *Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back* (2001), as Holden McNeil / Ben Affleck — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/jay-and-silent-bob-strike-back.md) - *Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor* (2001), as Rafe McCawley - *Pearl Harbor* (2001), as Rafe McCawley - *Bounce* (2000), as Buddy Amaral - *Joseph: King of Dreams* (2000), as Joseph (voice) - *Reindeer Games* (2000), as Rudy Duncan - *Boiler Room* (2000), as Jim Young - *Dogma* (1999), as Bartleby — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/dogma.md) - *Making the Video* (1999), series, Actor - *Forces of Nature* (1999), as Ben - *200 Cigarettes* (1999), as Bartender - *Shakespeare in Love* (1998), as Ned Alleyn — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md) - *TRL* (1998), series, Actor - *Armageddon* (1998), as A.J. Frost — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/armageddon.md) - *Phantoms* (1998), as Sheriff Bryce Hammond - *Good Will Hunting* (1997), as Chuckie Sullivan · Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/good-will-hunting.md) - *Going All the Way* (1997), as Tom 'Gunner' Casselman - *Chasing Amy* (1997), as Holden McNeil - *Mallrats* (1995), as Shannon - *Glory Daze* (1995), as Jack - *Against the Grain* (1993), series, as Joe Willie Clemons - *Dazed and Confused* (1993), as O'Bannion — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/dazed-and-confused.md) - *I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney* (1993), Director - *School Ties* (1992), as Chesty Smith - *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1992), as Basketball Player #10 (uncredited) - *Daddy* (1991), as Ben Watson - *The Torkelsons* (1991), series, as Kevin Johnson - *Field of Dreams* (1989), as Baseball Fan (uncredited) — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/field-of-dreams.md) - *The Good Mother* (1988), as Extra (uncredited) - *The Second Voyage of the Mimi* (1988), series, Actor - *Hands of a Stranger* (1987), as Billy Hearn - *Wanted: The Perfect Guy* (1986), as Danny Coleman - *The Voyage of the Mimi* (1984), series, as C.T. Granville - *The Dark End of the Street* (1981), as Tommy - *ABC Afterschool Special* (1972), series, as Danny Coleman - *I Am Still Alive*, as Producer - *Killing Gawker*, Producer - *Turbulence: The Greatest Mind in Formula One*, Executive Producer - *Shot in the Dark*, Executive Producer - *Hunting Whitey Bulger*, series, as Narrator (voice) · Executive Producer - *The Big Goodbye*, Director, Screenplay, Producer - *King Leopold’s Ghost*, Director, Producer - *Falling to Earth*, Actor - *Keeper of the Lost Cities*, Director - *Ghost Army*, Director, Screenplay, Producer ## Gallery - ![Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne in Gone Girl (2014)](https://film.one/media/title/523/still-d8401c771e34.jpg) Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne in *Gone Girl* (2014) — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in Argo (2012)](https://film.one/media/title/6476/still-3e756107aea4.jpg) Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in *Argo* (2012) — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck as Bartleby in Dogma (1999)](https://film.one/media/title/11829/still-bf45b98993fe.jpg) Ben Affleck as Bartleby in *Dogma* (1999) — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck as Larry Gigli in Gigli (2003)](https://film.one/media/title/8373/still-03d72f917215.jpg) Ben Affleck as Larry Gigli in *Gigli* (2003) — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck as A.J. Frost in Armageddon (1998)](https://film.one/media/title/4575/still-9f713789cf59.jpg) Ben Affleck as A.J. Frost in *Armageddon* (1998) — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck](https://film.one/media/person/21374/gallery-2b35afce3772.jpg) Ben Affleck — Nomoretitanic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Ben_Affleck_on_the_Red_Carpet%2C_SXSW_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Ben Affleck and Ezra Miller speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Justice League", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif](https://film.one/media/person/21374/gallery-17fa17dc54ab.jpg) Ben Affleck and Ezra Miller speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Justice League", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Ben_Affleck_%26_Ezra_Miller_%2836072079871%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Ben_Affleck_%26_Ezra_Miller_%2836072079871%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Ben Affleck](https://film.one/media/person/21374/gallery-042d0d2acdaf.jpg) Ben Affleck — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck](https://film.one/media/person/21374/gallery-9992a04e28b1.jpg) Ben Affleck — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck](https://film.one/media/person/21374/gallery-5244ef0b8e38.jpg) Ben Affleck — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck](https://film.one/media/person/21374/gallery-74757379b80a.jpg) Ben Affleck — Image via TMDB - ![Ben Affleck](https://film.one/media/person/21374/gallery-5f6dcd7f338f.jpg) Ben Affleck — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 2 won - 2013: Best Picture (won), for *Argo* - 1998: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Good Will Hunting* ### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won - 2013: Best Direction (won), for *Argo* ### Golden Globes — 1 won - 1998: Best Screenplay (won), for *Good Will Hunting* ### SAG Awards — 1 won - 1998: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (won) ### Other awards — 1 won - Volpi Cup for Best Actor 2006: Volpi Cup for Best Actor (won), for *Hollywoodland* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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