10 Worst Post-Oscar Career Choices

[Brian Damage]

http://www.premiere.com/Feature/10-W...Career-Choices

1. Halle Berry

Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 2002 for Monster’s Ball.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choices: Gothika (2003), Catwoman (2004)
What Went Wrong: Only three years after collecting an Oscar, Halle Berry did win another award: A Razzie for Worst Actress of the Year for Catwoman.

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2. Roberto Benigni
Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in 1999 for Life is Beautiful (1997).
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: Pinocchio (2002)
What Went Wrong: According to Benigni, Pinocchio was made at the suggestion of Italian auteur Federico Fellini, but the star's hopes of crossing over to American shores went down with the whale.

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3. Kevin Spacey


Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in 2000 for American Beauty.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: K-PAX (2001), The Shipping News (2001), Superman Returns (2006) and Fred Claus (2007)
What Went Wrong:K-PAX says it all, but throw in a terrible Lex Luthor impression and things definitely went south fast for Spacey.

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4. Susan Sarandon
Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1996 for Dead Man Walking.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: Stepmom (1998) and The Banger Sisters (2002)
What Went Wrong: Hollywood has never been kind to older women, but Sarandon has been left behind her contemporaries, Annette Bening and Meryl Streep, in picking choice roles.

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5. Cuba Gooding Jr.


Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in 1997 for Jerry Maquire.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choices: Chill Factor (1999), Boat Trip (2002), Snow Dogs (2002), Radio (2003) and Daddy Day Camp (2007).
What Went Wrong: Gooding Jr. told the New York Times, “I thought people wanted me to make them laugh. But I was wrong on so many levels. I try to take all my energy and bravado and take it into comedy, and that's when I'm terrible.” No kidding.

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6. Helen Hunt
Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1998 for As Good as it Gets.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: Pay It Forward (2000), Robert Altman's Dr. T and the Women (2000).
What Went Wrong: After taking home the Oscar, she made four films that all hit theaters simultaneously — Pay It Forward, Robert Altman's Dr. T and the Women, Cast Away, and What Women Want. Her role in Cast Away was decent if small, but the other three films were ultimately forgettable...or just plain awful.

[catlover79]

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...I liked K-PAX. Can't argue about the other choices, though.

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7. Robin Williams


Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in 1998 for Good Will Hunting.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: Patch Adams (1998) and RV (2006)
What Went Wrong: He's had a number of roles in questionable melodramas like Bicentennial Man (1999) and What Dreams May Come (1998), and owns the screen when he plays a psycho -- One Hour Photo (2002), Insomnia (2002).

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8. Louis Gossett Jr.
Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in 1983 for An Officer and a Gentleman.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: Firewalker (1986) and, The Principal (1987)
What Went Wrong: Following his win, Gossett partnered with now-irrelevant '80s heavy-hitters like Chuck Norris (Firewalker) and Jim Belushi (The Principal), not much of a resume builder.

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9. Jamie Foxx


Oscar: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in 2005 for Ray.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: Stealth (2005) and Miami Vice (2006)
What Went Wrong: It’s never a good thing when a robot plane kills you and steals your thunder in a movie.

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10. Mira Sorvino
Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in 1996 for Mighty Aphrodite.
Terrible Post-Oscar Career Choice: The Replacement Killers (1998) and At First Sight (1999)
What Went Wrong: Without Woody Allen leading her around the movie set, Sorvino was miscast and lost in her future roles.

[catlover79]

I'm shocked that Gwyneth Paltrow didn't make the list.

[HuntingtonM15]

Originally Posted by catlover79

I'm shocked that Gwyneth Paltrow didn't make the list.

Same here. She went from being an A-lister to just another name in Hollywood.

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by HuntingtonM15

Same here. She went from being an A-lister to just another name in Hollywood.

I'll never forget when I took my mom to see The Royal Tenenbaums and the scene came on where Gwyneth was making out with some chick. She was appalled. Had I known there was going to be a scene like that, I never would've taken my mom along.

[HuntingtonM15]

Originally Posted by catlover79

I'll never forget when I took my mom to see The Royal Tenenbaums and the scene came on where Gwyneth was making out with some chick. She was appalled. Had I known there was going to be a scene like that, I never would've taken my mom along.

That's funny. I'm definitely not one of Gwyneth's biggest fans. From the things I've heard about her, she seems quite nasty and stuck up.