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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
Mel Gibson, Best Director in 1996 for Braveheart
As iconic Scottish hero William Wallace, Gibson directed himself to Oscar gold in 1996 with his win for Best Director for Braveheart. But the Oscar-winning film was not without its detractors. Historians were horrified at the historical inaccuracies of the film, while gay rights groups called it homophobic for its negative portrayal of the effeminate Prince Edward. It was also accused of being Anglophobic and xenophobic. Whatever would give critics the idea that a Mel Gibson film could be channeling any kind of hate?
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