Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Reunite 20 Years After Oscar Win For Good Will Hunting 

You can take the boys out of Boston, but they always find their way back to each other.

Longtime friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reunited on stage at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, looking just as close as they were almost 20 years ago when their 1997 movie 

nabbed them the coveted Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

The pair came out to present the award for Best Original Screenplay, but Damon was introduced as “and guest” as part of host Jimmy Kimmel‘s ongoing rivalry with Damon.

Kimmel took things a step further when he conducted the orchestra to “play off” Damon as he tried to read the nominees.

which is nominated for Best Picture, among other accolades. Two-time winner Affleck — his film

won Best Picture in 2012 — is likely at the ceremony to support brother Casey Affleck, who is looking to pair his Golden Globes win with a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the drama.

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Damon and Affleck, 44, recently threw it back to their critically acclaimed film — which also saw a Best Supporting Actor win for the late Robin Williams — in October, joining fellow Bostonian John Krasinski in a live reading of the movie alongside Krasinski and wife Emily Blunt, among others.

The actors surprised the audience, emerging onstage during

 Live Read New York, which was hosted by Krasinski.

alum told audience members he would be playing Damon’s part of Will and then, after Damon appeared, said Affleck’s role Chuckie was “a better role anyway.” Of course, Affleck arrived to take his rightful place as Chuckie at that point.

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“We were both in love with the same thing – acting and filmmaking,” Damon told

last year of his connection with Affleck, whom he co-founded production company Pearl Street Films alongside in 2012. “I think we fed on each other’s obsession during really formative, important years and that bonded us for life.”

earlier this year, “I can’t tell you how valuable it is to have somebody who’s been through things with you, ups and downs, who knows what your life experience is like, who can identify with that.”

“It’s an incredibly valuable friendship and it’s very precious and so is my friendship with my brother. I don’t know what I would do without those guys.”

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