Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
Casey Affleck's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds
The Wealth Pioneer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for August 12 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2017 Best Actor — Manchester by the Sea win.
Academy Award record
- 2017 Best Actor — Manchester by the Sea
The Ace of Diamonds coordinate
Casey Affleck's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Academy Award and not a verdict on Casey Affleck. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.
Casey Affleck in the public record
He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. The younger brother of actor Ben Affleck, he began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films: To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Gerry (2002), and in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's film series (2001–2007). His first leading role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim (2006). Affleck's breakthrough came in 2007, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Robert Ford in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and starred in his brother's crime drama Gone Baby Gone. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here. He went on to appear in Tower Heist (2011), ParaNorman (2012), and Interstellar (2014), and he received praise for his performance as an outlaw in Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013). In 2016, Affleck starred in the drama Manchester by the Sea, in which his performance as a grieving janitor earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Casey Affleck (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Casey Affleck's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♦ — Birth Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, A♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for A♦, A♥, 2♦, Q♦, 5♥, 3♣, 3♠, 9♥, 7♣, 5♦, Q♠, J♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.
Also on the record
- He has since starred in the dramas A Ghost Story (2017) and The Old Man & the Gun (2018), and as Boris Pash in the biographical thriller Oppenheimer (2023), his highest-grossing release.
Other winners with this card
- Colin Firth — 2011 Best Actor — The King's Speech
- Emma Stone — 2017 Best Actress — La La Land; 2024 Best Actress — Poor Things
- Jeff Bridges — 2010 Best Actor — Crazy Heart
- Jessica Lange — 1995 Best Actress — Blue Sky
- Paul Newman — 1987 Best Actor — The Color of Money
- Reese Witherspoon — 2006 Best Actress — Walk the Line
- Sally Field — 1980 Best Actress — Norma Rae; 1985 Best Actress — Places in the Heart
FAQ
- What is Casey Affleck's birth card?
- The Ace of Diamonds. August 12 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Casey Affleck's dates come from?
- Birth date 1975-08-12 is the day-precision date on Casey Affleck's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Casey Affleck) + Wikidata CC0 (Q270730). Birth date 1975-08-12 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).