Revenge is a dish best served cold goes the saying - and actor Casey Affleck proved it at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards overnight.
At the awards, voted on by New York's most prominent film critics, Affleck took the stage to pick up a Best Actor award for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By The Sea.
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Casey Affleck's revenge speech
Dishing it to his critics, Casey Affleck accepts the award for Best Actor at the New York Film Critic's Circle Awards.
But instead of a standard acceptance speech thanking his publicist, his high school drama teacher and his big bro Ben, the actor turned the tables on the smarmy-types honouring him, pulling out a list of bad reviews critics had given him over the years and reading them right to their faces.
Awkwardly, four of the five reviews were penned by New York Magazine's house critic David Edelstein, who just so happened to be hosting the event.
"Affleck, though likeable, doesn't have a lot of variety and resorts to chewing gum to give his character through lines," went one.
"Affleck's line readings would be too mumbly and mulish even for the glory days of '50s Method acting, and he might as well be wearing a t-shirt that says 'Shoot me'. Fortunately, he's not the lead," went another.
"It's looking like whenever I see Affleck's name in a movie's credits, you can expect a standard, genre B picture – slowed down and tarted up," he continued.
While Affleck later played to his audience saying, "Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself ten times over,", Deadline reports that "Edelstein was stung" and spent the rest of the evening defending his words.
Affleck, 41, is a frontrunner to pick up the Best Actor (Drama) award at Monday's Golden Globes for his performance in the Matt Damon-produced film as a loner janitor who returns to his small Massachusetts hometown to look after his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
The role is also expected to earn Affleck his second Oscar nomination later this month.
His awards season campaign has not been without its controversies. Sexual misconduct allegations from Affleck's past – raised by two women who worked with him during the 2009 filming of I'm Still Here (both of the claims were settled out of court in 2010) – resurfaced following the actor's recent critically-lauded run, with online commenters slamming Hollywood media's reluctance to press the actor on the issue.