Matt Damon Biography

Biography

with a marvelous income of more than 138 million U.S. dollar.

The glorious attainment of "Good Will Hunting" still continued as it received nine Academy Award nominations in 1998, including the Actor in a Leading Role for Matt and the Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) which finally was bestowed to Matt and Ben. Related to this great moment in the same year, Matt also obtained a Golden Globe Award in the category of Best Screenplay - Motion Picture as well as two nominations at Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast and by a Male Actor in a Leading Role plus a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama. From this time, the road to success and popularity indeed opened wide for him, enhanced with his enactment in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" (1998). This World War II epic scored over 216 million U.S. dollar, propelling his career right to the peak while directing him to receive his third Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in 1999.

Mentioned by press as one of Hollywood Golden Boys, Matt created sensation in 1999 ...

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as he got out from his image of pretty boy through "The Talented Mr. Ripley" in which he brilliantly portrayed a psychotic bisexual murderer. "I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway," he admitted. "So my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing." His choice to do so was proven worthy for he was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture at the 2000 Golden Globe Awards. He kept exploring more different human characters in his next movies, such as "Dogma" (1999), "The Legend of Bagger Vance" (2000), "All the Pretty Horses" (2000), and "Ocean's Eleven" (2001).

The year 2002 marked Matt's shift from drama genre into an action-adventure one, "The Bourne Identity" which was adapted from Robert Ludlum's novel with the same title. His venture amazingly was responded positively by public as the flick garnered almost 122 million U.S. dollars. He then turned his attention to comedy, playing one of conjoined twins who shared a liver with Greg Kinnear in "Stuck On You" (2003) before reprising the role of Jason Bourne in "The Bourne Supremacy" as ...