15 January,2013 02:22 AM IST | | IANS
"I want to thank my wife who is the reason why I'm standing here," Affleck said after claiming the prize on stage, reports dailymail.co.uk.u00a0"I adore you. I love you so much. Thanks for sitting through this. You are my everything. Thank you," he added.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
The actor-filmmaker was overwhelmed with his nomination for the best director itself. u00a0He gushed over the names of other nominees that presenter Halle Berry had read off: Steven Spielberg for "Lincoln", Ang Lee for "Life of Pi", Kathryn Bigelow for "Zero Dark Thirty" and Quentin Tarantino for "Django Unchained".
"Look, I don't care what the award is. When they put your name next to the names she just read off, it's an extraordinary thing in your life," Affleck said.
