12 actors who might have been struck by the 'Oscar Curse

Winning an Oscar is supposed to be the peak of one's career, as well as open doors to bigger and better projects.However, these 12 actors and actresses might attest to it having had the opposite effect.Winner Marcia Gay Harden even called winning "disastrous on a professional level."The 2019 Academy Awards will air on February 24, after a long and sometimes tedious awards season. While there are some films and actors we at INSIDER believe were snubbed, perhaps they should be thanking their lucky stars.According to Organization Science magazine, the "Oscar Curse" is "the colorful belief that misfortune paradoxically befalls Academy Award winners." Though the magazine did not find evidence of said curse, these 12 actors might disprove those findings. Actress Halle Berry won a Razzie (awards for theworst in film)just a few years after getting her Best Actress Oscar, and following his Best Actor win for "Jerry Maguire," Cuba Gooding Jr. went on to star in movies like "Snow Dogs," which earned a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar for "Jerry Maguire" in 1997, and has since been nominated for four Razzies.Gooding Jr. had a bit of a career resurgence in 2016 due to his role as O.J. Simpson in "American Crime Story," but for more than a decade he was mainly known for comedy flops and direct-to-video movies. He was in nearly 20 of them from 2005 to 2013.Films post-Oscar win include "Snow Dogs," which earned a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and "What Love Is," which got a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Kim Basinger won in 1997 for "L.A. Confidential." Now, she's best known for her role in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" franchise.Basinger's lone Academy Award nomination and win came over 20 years ago for her role in "L.A. Confidential." It was also the last time she was nominated for any major award. She's since appeared in films like "Fifty Shades Darker," which earned a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Halle Berry is the first and only black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in 2001's "Monster's Ball." She accepted a Razzie three years later.Berry's breakthrough win at the 2002 ceremony was a win for diversity in the film industry, as she was the first black woman to win for best actress for her role as Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball."She then took part in the "X-Men" franchise, but roles like the one in "Catwoman" were critically panned. In fact, "Catwoman" won her a Razzie for Worst Actress in 2004.Berry, for her part, has said her Oscar win "meant nothing" in the context of diversity, since a woman of color has not won the award since.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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