afleck is denied an academy award nomination for best director. the film is nominated for best picture among other awar. when the film first came out, i talked to ben why he wanted to tell this story. >> i knew that it would be rez na nant in some way talking about revolution and the consequences of revolution and us in business with the leaders in the middle east. i had no idea it would become really tragically resonant as you mentioned and what happened in benghazi, you know, i could look at the footage to research the movie of 30-plus years ago, would look almost exactly like what was on the news right now. that had a profound effect on me. one wonders, are we just repeetding ourselves? what does it take to get out of the cycle? >> when you look at the opening sequences of "argo," it's a 'salt on the embassy. how do you recreate that? >> that was the biggest searches because i knew that it needed to have that sort of raw energy and had to get several thousand extras and since we were in turkey, we had to teach them farsi slogans and maintain folks' energy level. the really -- the real challenge was that, you know, students revolution and most of