No best director nomination? So what? Ben Affleck's best picture win at the Oscars only serves to prove the actor has reinvented himself as one of the finest directors of his generation. "I was here 15 years ago, and I was just a kid. I never thought I would be back here, and I am," he said during his speech. "And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life. All that matters is that you get back up."