Minnie Driver Was Devastated When Matt Damon Brought Date to Oscars Weeks After Their Breakup

Minnie Driver recently reminisced about her experience at the 1998 Oscars, which occurred shortly after she and Good Will Hunting costar Matt Damon had broken up.

She didn't deserve that Oscar nomination anyway, she just played the typical gf role convincingly. And Damon didn't deserve that Oscar win since it's rather suspect neither not Affleck managed to write anything nearly as good as Good Will Hunting in the years since.

I always thought that they were a bit of an odd couple.

Maybe he thought she was a bitch because she’s mean to fat people. In the past couple of years a DL’er posted that they saw her on the street and told her they loved her work, and as they were walking away Minnie said something to her friends about “it’s always the fat ones” or something like that.

I know how it feels but there's nothing you can do about it and best to never mention it years later. The ex has every right to get back on the horse and the sooner the better.

She’s always seemed like a gay man trapped in a woman’s body, so it’s no surprise that she’d be dating Matt Damin.

She used to be heavy herself, look at her in Circle of Friends

I’m trying to remember who should have taken Minnie’s spot that year. I would almost have nominated Heather Graham over her. Rollergirl is iconic and she’s never been better.

That's funny, r3. I remember when she was asked about Circle of Friends, she made it a point to stress she was only fat for that movie and she's normally very thin.

[quote] She’s always seemed like a gay man trapped in a woman’s body, so it’s no surprise that she’d be dating Matt Damin.

Why isn’t it a surprise given your saying she’s like a gay man trapped in a woman’s body?

They would have had ugly babies, since they’re both so atypical in appearance.

[quote]I’m trying to remember who should have taken Minnie’s spot that year

There’s no way she was going to beat Kim Basinger, who herself was considered in a tough race against the old hag from Titanic.

Maybe this is the jawline Marlo Thomas is going for - give me the Minnie Driver!

She's still talking about this? She used to go on and on about that breakup for a long time. Get the fuck over it.

[quote] I’m trying to remember who should have taken Minnie’s spot that year. I would almost have nominated Heather Graham over her. Rollergirl is iconic and she’s never been better.

Any of the three actresses from The Ice Storm, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen or Christina Ricci, for starters.

Anne Meara for The Daytrippers (if they would have had a dime to spend on a campaign).

Farrah Fawcett for The Apostle

Heather Graham and Oscar should never be mentioned in the same sentence unless we're discussing lunch meat.

[QUOTE] Any of the three actresses from The Ice Storm, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen or Christina Ricci, for starters.

Oh god, that’s right. Any of the three of them should have been nominated, but I would give the edge to Sigourney who’s fucking fabulous in that movie (and looks hot as shit).

Allison Janney hosts the infamous key party!

I think people might have been burned out on Joan Allen’s suffering wife roles at that point (or soon to be). She was nominated the two previous years in the same category for Nixon and then The Crucible. I think she should have received a nod for Pleasantville the year after The Ice Storm.

I’m embarrassed for her, discussing this decades later. How long did they even date?

Did she constantly peg him?

R1 The rumor that Damon and Affleck did not write Good Will Hunting is ludicrous. I recall reading an interview in a magazine in which Matt Damon had said at least 2-3 years before the movie was made that he and Ben were in the process of writing and rewriting a script for them as leads in hopes that a studio will find it worthy enough to produce.

Good Will Hunting is so boring and mediocre, I never understood the big deal.

^They could have written and rewritten it but that doesn't mean that's what ended up being on the screen. The original script apparently had him going to work for NASA or some shit like that. It's well known William Goldman did a "polish" on the script which is always code for a hush paid rewrite.

Yes, he even said that subsequently that he changed the profession twice until the story flowed and was more cohesive. I don't know whether there was a ghost writer doctor that polished it up any, or even did a significant rewrite, but you make it sound like they had little input in the finish product.

It's widely known that William Goldman did a full uncredited rewrite to the script which got it into the shape it needed to be to get produced, much like the way Ron Nyswaner completely rewrote Milk, but received no credit, foisting Dustin Lance Black on us for the next 15 years.

For the record, the 1997 Best Supporting Actress nominees were:

- Kim Basinger in L.A. CONFIDENTIAL **winner**

- Joan Cusack in IN & OUT

- Minnie Driver in GOOD WILL HUNTING

- Julianne Moore in BOOGIE NIGHTS

- Gloria Stuart in TITANIC

Matt Damon's wife isn't an oil painting herself

Minnie’s “American” accent in Good Will Hunting was amateurish and trite.

[quote] Matt Damon's wife isn't an oil painting herself

She’s rabbit faced.

I loved Allison Elliott In Wings of the Dove and Sarah Polley in The Sweet Hereafter that year as well. Either of which would have also been better than that pancake face amazon cavewoman

She's now complaining about his Oscar date that year?

She used to bitch about how he broke up with her on national TV while promoting Good Will Hunting.

Oprah had inquired about his love life and Damon said that he and Driver were through.

According to Driver, they were still an item when he appeared on Oprah, so it was news to her that their relationship was over.

[QUOTE] Minnie’s “American” accent in Good Will Hunting was amateurish and trite.

Are you being serious? Her character is British in the film.

^^^ Oh sorry, I got confused. Her roles are all so interchangeable and forgettable.

Oh, Sarah Polley should have won for The Sweet Hereafter! Driver got the nomination because it corresponded with her brief time as Hollywood's new "It" girl, which lasted about as long as her relationship with Damon.

Julianne and Heather Graham had great roles and were unforgettable, unlike Minnie ME!

Even though it's been happening since the 1940s, the massively undeserved supporting acting nomination (male or female, but usually female) that usually gets in because of a sweep of a popular film is unofficially called "The Minnie Driver Nomination."

I thought Joan Cusack was robbed.

You think that's bad? Did you know Harry Styles got the cover of Vogue before I did?? Harry fucking Styles!!

OP- WRONG

She was devastated when she found of Matt Damon was into SUCKING COCK.

[quote] Did you know Harry Styles got the cover of Vogue before I did?? Harry fucking Styles!!—Billy Porter

Harry STOLE Album of the Year from MEEEEE!!’

She was publicly burned by a feckless boyfriend.

Minnie Driver is still talking about this because people are still asking about it.

But the next time this comes up Minnie Driver has to insist that this is no longer worth talking about.

He dumped her for Winona Ryder, who is also unlucky in love.

I remember Ben and Matt's acceptance speech at the oscars and it was fun.

I bet Ben and Matt's hot fuck later that evening was fun, too.

👏 I had to dump her, she looks like a fella and I didn't want people thinking I was a FAG 👏

👏 I had to dump her, she looks like a fella and I didn't want people thinking I was a FAG 👏

Guaranteed he hasn't given a single thought to her since the breakup.

looks like she could lift him over her head

Except for the Damon Butt, there is not much to like to Matt Damon, but for her to keep going about this shit decades later tells everything about their respective careers.

Julianne Moore should have won that year, it is one of her better performances, most good actresses could pull Alice but not everyone can make a decadent porn actress look that nice and motherly.

Minnie Driver! What a career she had!

Matt Damon was a Mini driver.....

[quote]Guaranteed he hasn't given a single thought to her since the breakup.—And why would he?

Cause he’s a fag, dear.

[quote]Matt Damon was a Mini driver.....

He’s no Anne He he.

“Minnie Driver? Is it a dwarf?”

Who did he take to the Oscars that year? I'm pretty sure he didn't take Winona until the next year or the year after, when Gwyneth was dating Affleck and she set up her "bestie" Noni with Matt. I believe they broke up and somehow bad financial investments were involved, IIRC...

I loved Minnie as Lorraine Finster in Will and Grace. She was funny as all hell being Karen’s rival for Stan’s affection. Matt was in once as Jack’s rival in the gay chorus.

Matt and Ben both took their mothers to the Oscars that year…

[quote] Matt and Ben both took their mothers to the Oscars that year…

So Minnie was devastated because Matt brought his mother to the Oscars?

She's not somebody I would ever assume is Irish.

"Once in the height of passion, Matt promised me that WE would buy a zoo together some day. I felt completely betrayed and emotionally devastated many years later, when he did buy a zoo, but not with me."

Christ, she needs to let go of this shit. Nobody cares that they dated for a few minutes. Jennifer Aniston doesn't talk about Brangelina anymore. That was a much more interesting story. Minnie needs to take a page out of the Faye Dunaway/Mommie Dearest playbook and just REFUSE TO DISCUSS THIS ANYMORE!

Minnie Driver looks like Judy the frog, from HR Pufnstuf.

She was very warm in the film. It's a good performance. There were better that year for sure, but she wasn't a jacki weaver silver linings playbook nomination. Wtf was that?

Can you imagine if she had buccal fat removal done?

Julianne Moore losing to Kim Basinger that year is the greatest Oscar injustice of all time.

Is it buccal fat or her bone structure? Either way, she's fugly.

R69 I don't know why but comedy almost never seems to win these awards.

She's STILL whining about this breakup? Jeez. Have some self-respect, lady.

R69 Moore would have been a worthy winner had 'Safe' come out a year earlier in 94. I think she most deserved it for 'Far From Heaven' in 02.

Maybe voters didn't watch Boogie Nights due to it's subject matter? Or maybe her orange minge scared them off

Julianne flashed her ginger minge in Short Cuts, not Boogie Nights.

And her character work in Boogie Nights was brilliant, much better than Kim Basinger's Veronica Lake drag act.

There was some video at the Oscars where Minnie was waiting and Matt comes by and she's says to him I was hoping we could go together. Then Matt says it's so embarrassing and apologizes and that he brought his mother.

He should have taken her calls.

[QUOTE] [R69] I don't know why but comedy almost never seems to win these awards.

Are you implying that Boogie Nights is a comedy?

It’s funny that minnie driver doesn’t like fat people, because didn’t she used to be fat? Or is it just that her face looks fat on camera? In my mind’s eye, I see her as a fatty. So maybe she shouldn’t be talking.

"I prefer the term, pleasantly plump."

Maybe Boogie Nights was a comedy in Germany, but otherwise ... no.

I think there should be fat catchers, like dog catchers, to go around and put big nets over fact people and take them all someplace and get them slimmed down.

I like that she admitted she was hurt by Matt. Face it, we've all been hurt like that. No matter how long ago it was, you remember that it hurt. She's human. People are still interested in it.

Makes her sound like a loser

She is!

I won an Oscar that night.

And she went home empty-handed and dateless.

Minnie’s dress was extremely over-the-top and ugly that year at the Oscars too. No one has mentioned that. Very Disney villainess and not in a good way.

Minnie Driver always seemed to believe she was owed American stardom for some reason. Kate Beckinsale was the same way, and so was Rosamund Pike (who was the most talented of the three).

All three of them would have done better career-wise had they stayed acting primarily in the British isles.

[quote]All three of them would have done better career-wise had they stayed acting primarily in the British isles.

If they stayed in the UK, they would be relegated to primarily British TV and you'd never have heard of them. They may have had a good career out of it but the US market is so much bigger and more lucrative.

I agree the US market is more lucrative and better, but as Marge Gunderson says in "Fargo," "There's more to life than a little money, y'know."

They all got better work in the UK. And I had seen and recognized all three of them before they came to the US: Driver in "Circle of Friends," Beckinsale in "Cold Comfort Farm," and Pike in "Pride & Prejudice."

R85, was the dress at R66 the one to which you refer?

The dress is cute but she wore that dumb fur the whole night and hid it. The fur is all I remember and it didn’t work.

I also melded her dress with Juliette Binoche’s Oscar winning gown in my head.

Binoche's dress, since R85 thinks we have photographic memories.

She seems still heartbroken over that dumping

Great dress and matching lipstick, but dragging the fur over the ground and then wrapping up in it? No, thanks .

Binoche’s win was the year before this.

WEHT to Randolph Duke? He designed Driver's revenge dress and the fur shrug. I love the late 1990s minimalist chic

R85 Well they're not DEAD.

She actually looks really nice in the photo at OP. Matt looks cute, but in the boy-next-door kind of way.

We know Brad Pitt has a small dick.

Is there any info re: this queen’s package?

In many ways, the two are interchangeable.

[quote] Is there any info re: this queen’s package?

Minnie's? I would say about 6 inches hard, uncut with a very full bush.

R101. Minnie likely has the clit of death, and no-doubt fucked him with it.

He has major bottom vibes.

I’m thinking Matty is packing a good 5” but a thick one.

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