Looking Back
HOT GALLERY: 10 Stars Who Fell Victim to the Oscar Curse
Winning an Oscar is the dream of almost every actor, actress, and precious stage dog—we love you, Uggie!—this side of Hollywood and Vine. What aspiring thespian hasn’t clutched a hairbrush while standing in the mirror, tearfully thanking her agent, parents, and Pilates instructor who knew the name of that discreet plastic surgeon? But what they don’t tell you when you step off the bus from Iowa—because that still happens, right?—is that winning an Academy Award can also be a curse. Or you just have a really bad knack for picking scripts. (We’ll go with cursed.) By Katherine Butler
Helen Hunt, Best Actress in 1998 for As Good As It Gets
Helen Hunt turned in a respectable performance as waitress Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets. Did she deserve an Oscar for it? Was Cate Blanchett robbed of hers in 1999? (We will never forget, Cate. Never forget.) And yet, thanks to some stellar side acting courtesy of Jack Nicholson and Greg Kinnear, Hunt hugged Oscar gold that year.
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