1. She followed her highly publicized divorce from Tom Cruise by headlining Moulin Rouge! and The Others.

• For getting almost uniformly excellent reviews in two very different movies: +5

2. She was nominated for an Oscar for Moulin Rouge!.

• For succeeding where her Oscar-baiting, Vanilla Sky-starring ex-husband failed: +3
• Bonus points for his masturbatory "Yay, Hollywood!" speech at the Oscars, which made her look better for not being married to him anymore: +2

3. Well over a year after the divorce, media attention she attracts still includes at least one mention of Tom Cruise.

• For the ghostly spectre of Tom Cruise looming over her life and career: -2

4. She was romantically linked with Russell Crowe, Robbie Williams, and Tobey Maguire before the latest report of her dating Affleck.

• For...uh, let's give her the benefit of the doubt and call it "serial dating": -1

5. "My name is Nadia." "My name is not Nadia."

• Way to follow up two critically acclaimed hit movies, Nic: -2

Mate Rating » 5 out of 10

When Stars Mate: The Methodology

When you're a fully-fledged celebrity, doing nothing in your spare time but appearing on talk shows and soaking up free champagne at movie premieres, it stands to reason that the only people you ever meet are other celebrities. Hence: The All-Celebrity Hook-up, which very often makes a successful transition to The All-Celebrity Relationship.

The problem is, if you're a celebrity, the odds are that your worth, and that of your mate's, will never be evenly matched. Therefore, when you meet and fall in love with another celebrity, either your worth, or that of your mate, will necessarily go down.

When Stars Mate is a service of Fametracker for celebrities dating, or married to, other celebrities. Fametracker will use this space to determine who in current celeb/celeb pairings has gained by the relationship, who has lost, and how the balance of power could be altered.

1. He is among Jerry Bruckheimer's stable of actors.

• Like William Fichtner and Steve Buscemi: +3
• Like Nicolas Cage and Tom Sizemore: -3

2. He is also among Kevin Smith's stable of actors.

• For hanging around with a bunch of guys who will help keep him from getting a swelled head: +2
• For the scenes in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back in which he played himself: +1

3. He won an Academy Award for co-writing the Good Will Hunting screenplay.

• For winning an Oscar: +4
• Under reportedly shady circumstances: -2

4. He is starring as Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears.

• For taking over a film franchise that was plenty lucrative for Harrison Ford: +3

5. Whether or not the reports of his relationship with Kidman are true, Affleck is already half of one of Hollywood's power couples.

• Just go to Vermont and marry Matt Damon, already: -1

Mate Rating » 7 out of 10

If Kidman and Affleck had hooked up a year ago, this would have played out very differently, what with his rehab and all. But today, everything's coming up Affleck -- and we didn't even have room to mention Project Greenlight or the fact that he's been so much classier about his on-again, off-again relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow than Paltrow has. (Oh, hey, look at that -- we did find a way to squeeze those in after all.) Is Kidman the bigger star in this love match? Oh hell yes. But is Affleck the better catch? Yes. Yes, he is. Though Kidman's rampage through the film counterparts of every Marvel Comics superhero may well take her to Eric "Hulk" Bana's firm embrace next, it is Fametracker's conclusion that she should hang on to Affleck as long as she can -- as long, that is, as she can keep him away from Damon.