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
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Adrien Brody—Today
And then, Brody kept acting. His first big follow-up was as mentally challenged Noah Percy in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village—a film which left most of us ready to throw ourselves into forest pits, joining Brody in a leafy death. He followed with another critical dud, King Kong, and since has made a career of playing ill-received, down-on-his-luck characters. (See: Splice and Hollywoodland.)
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