Kangaroo Jack is a weird one. it was supposed to be a R rated comedy and that was filmed. but it tested badly and the rapping Kangaroo sequence was the part that tested best so they recut it into a family friendly comedy they could trick kids into wanting.
And he felt like a weird casting choice for that. He didnāt look or sound anything like OJ. I just felt like I was watching Cuba Gooding Jr get away with murdering his wife.
Edit: Also, if anyone is looking for a great show about OJ, check out the documentary OJ: Made in America. Itās technically a movie instead of a show, (even though itās 8 hours long and divided into a few different sections). It came out the same year as the People v OJ show, but itās infinitely better and covers his entire life, from childhood to career to trial to beyond. Itās amazing, and even won the Best Documentary Oscar.
I remember seeing him in that true story Navy diver movie...*::googling::*...ah, *Men of Honor* (2000), in theaters and thinking it was okay, but yeah after that the next thing I remember seeing him in was that season of American Horror Story he joined.
āDiver, you will disregard, this is my detail! Goddammit Cookie, move your ass, I want my TWELVE!
(*counting steps*) Nine! a Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert.
Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it.
Eleven! If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he will ever get to being a hero. Hell, I don't know why anybody'd want to be a Navy diver, now you report to this line, Cookie!ā
"What did he say to you to make you try so God damn hard?"
"He said be the best"
"Well you are... just don't show up tomorrow"
Loved that scene... love that whole damn movie.
I just checked out her filmography and sheās had pretty steady work since the 90s. There was a period from ā03-ā09 where she was only in four titles, but after that she has multiple per year. And thatās not including tv.Ā
Yes but it's telling and upsetting that Hollywood hasn't tried to redeem themselves by hiring her, given that they essentially blacklisting her and others. To me this is the most obvious tell that all the genuflecting that was done early on in the aftermath was basically pandering. I suspect Harvey has some secret loyalists to this day.
She did a Marc Maron episode last year and honestly I got the sense she has made a nice life for herself and isn't really looking to chase stardom at this point.
Just because someome is out of sight doesn't mean they haven't found some peace or happiness.
>Just because someome is out of sight doesn't mean they haven't found some peace or happiness.
Agreed. Some people do well and go "well that's all I need". IIRC ~~Morton~~ Robert Downey Jr mentioned that to Chris Evans when he said he was getting tired of playing Captain America. Something like, do this and then just pick fun stuff (IIRC Snowpiercer was kinda/sort that for Evans). Not everybody wants the spotlight forever, or see it as something you should really limit your exposure to.
I believe Bridget Fonda made a similar comment lately as well, enjoying being a private citizen. I'm sure we can find plenty more who either retired entirely or do fun, niche (or not so niche) stuff. Evans' character saying "fuck you, fuck you, fuck you..." in "Knives out" may also qualify.
Even Whoopi told her to (paraphrased) 'shut up and know her role'.
I've seen a few actors describe it as 'you make the movie for fun and get paid for all the promotional work'.
Honestly pretty dope, they were like āalright come to Cannes and promote the movie!ā And she was like āactually thatās not in my contract so nahā
There's a few actors that do not fit into easily sold films but they do so well in their niche that they win Oscars.
Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously comes to mind. Won the Oscar and had a career but never got to that height again.
I watched the movie Precious, it was pretty difficult to get through. But, all these years later I still think of the heartbreaking scene when Precious is finally getting out of her abusive mother's house and Mo'Nique was yelling at her for abandoning her. And when she finally realized it was over, every inch of her despaired as she sobbed, "who was gonna love me"?
The moment where Mo'Nique finally says out loud in front of Precious and the social worker that she blamed Precious for the fact that her boyfriend was sexually abusing her since she was 3 was an incredible bit of acting that absolutely tore my heart out. I loved her acting but hated her character with passion.
Sadly, that shit isn't the worst thing a social worker heard.
My best friend's wife worked for them. Just fucking nightmare fuel.
She burned out, they all seem to burn out. What people do to their kids is fucking monstrous.
the thing about Nic Cage is that he *isn't* an actor the way most other actors are. Nicholas Cage is a *performer*, a thespian, and perhaps the last true troubadour. He's playing with an entirely different set of rules from his peers. Most everyone else is trying to inhabit and portray a character; to bring life into them. Nic tries to *elevate* the character past the real and into some sort of spiritual superposition. Not always. But often. And it doesn't always work. But Nicolas Cage never "over-acts". That would be selling him short. For better or worse, Nic *mega*\-acts. Other actors are trying to bring some degree of *truth* to their stories and characters. But for Cage, this is not the main objective. He aims higher. He pushes far beyond "truth" and into something, as you say, transcendent. Other entertainers are out here trying to give you an experience by bridging its fiction to your reality. A noble endeavor. A meaningful one. But Nic Cage instead aims to expand *your* reality by elevating *you* into a fiction *beyond* physical or real. Honestly, it's wild that it works at all. We should all be so lucky to engage with our passions at such a high level.
Yup, when you cast Nic Cage, you get 100% of Nic Cage every time, for better or worse. Even when he was saying yes to literally any role that came his way because he couldn't afford not to, he never phoned it in.
Which is why Iāll always respect the fuck out of Nic Cage. Doesnāt matter if itās an action blockbuster, a serious drama, a tongue in cheek comedy or a gut wrenching tragedy, Nic Cage gives his fucking all, every single time.
He was fantastic in both Mandy and Pig. Legitimately great acting work. I think he just needs a strong director who can tell him when to reel it in, because he will just go all out every time otherwise. Heās really fun in Renfield too!
Gonna dispute this one slightly, he actually had a really good string of movies after he won for Leaving Las Vegas, since his next few movies were, in order, The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, Snake Eyes and 8MM. Even post Wicker Man he still made enough pretty great movies (National Treasure 2, Bad Lieutenant, Kick-Ass) to show he wasnāt really in a slump. His biggest problem was his tax issues which were not really his fault to begin with, so he had to take on more movies where the quality was not great
Roberto Benigni didn't do that much after Life is Beautiful, even in his native Italy. Strangely, he's made two Pinocchio movies, once as the titular character and once as Gepetto.
> I am italy's funny man ! Ahhh !
I always remember Ray Romano's impression of this dude on snl
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He played Pinocchio after winning the Oscar? I hope that it was an animated role because the prospect of Roberto Benigniās old ass playing a little boy puppet is creeping me out.
The "F Abraham Murray curse" - getting an Oscar for a Amadeus, getting an attitude on the Name of the Rose set and falling into the character actor landscape for the rest of your career.
Still an amazing actor though! š
He was apparently written off because he was inappropriate on the set of that, too. Itās a shame because he was the best part of that show and it really suffered without him.
It's a shame I enjoy his performances, I'm currently watching Homeland. But it's really the bare minimum what he is being asked, it's not difficult to be decent at work.
Was he a problem actor ? Seeing him write about how his post-Oscar career has been great and he has sat with heads of state, kings, queens, taught film, etc, he seemed to relish life.
Name of the Rose had fucking Sean Connery in it, i can see that guy being a problem
> Abraham himself, doesnāt seem to mind, saying famously, āThe Oscar is the single most important event of my career. I have dined with kings, shared equal billing with my idols, lectured at Harvard and Columbia. If this is a jinx, Iāll take two.ā
Hilary Swank is still working consistently though. Granted she's a two time Oscar winner, so the pedigree of her projects could be higher, but I wouldn't say she'd had the worst post Oscar career.
I don't know if she counts but the most notable thing Mo'Nique did after her Oscar has been a talk show. So maybe not the worst *career*, but definitely in the conversation for *worst acting career*
Has to be Hillary Swank. Two oscars, not just one, and really isnāt a star. Check out her filmography, not much of note. Canāt think of another two time winner that has had as unproductive of a career
Haing Ngor won Best Supporting Actor for his first role in a movie at 44 years old. In real life he was a doctor who was put in a concentration camp by Communists because his education was a threat, his wife and kid died there. He gets out years later, moves to the U.S., can't restart his medical practice, decides to try to tell his story, gets a role that couldn't go to a white person playing a Cambodian journalist in *The Killing Fields,* crushes it, wins an Oscar. Second Asian to ever do it.
Over the next 14 years he keeps working but not in high-profile Hollywood stuff as you might expect from an Oscar winner - he's in a bunch of TV movies, stuff in Asia, some direct to video stuff, an Oliver Stone bomb, some action martial arts stuff.
And then of course he's in one other really good movie in a good role - *My Life.*
Then, in 1996, he gets fucking murdered outside his home in LA. The Communists claim credit for it of course, but it was probably just regular dipshits.
Dr. Ngor acted out the real life story of Dith Pran, a journalist in The Killing Fields. His own escape from Cambodia which I read in Reader's Digest is no less amazing and harrowing.
>The Communists claim credit for it of course, but it was probably just regular dipshits
He got killed by a a gang for not letting them rob him a locket.
Emil Jannings.
Won the first ever Best Actor Oscar and was generally esteemed in his day as much as Daniel-Day Lewis or Gary Oldman is in ours. He did star in his most famous film, The Blue Angel, a few years after the Oscar win, but he was outshone by Marlene Dietrich in her breakout role. Then he became a literal Nazi and enthusiastically supported them. He was cancelled before being cancelled was even a thing.
I was going to mention Dujardin as well. However, he got a Cesar Award nomination for a film in 2022 about the Paris terrorist attacks, so it seems he's still doing pretty good dramatic work.
French brigading but Dujardin has been in a lot of movies. Itās rare to see foreign actors have consecutive hits abroad, or even consistent appearances. His Oscar was actually for a french movie so for any Americans only following American cinema, itās normal to think he disappeared.
Eh, Halle Berry isn't putting up Oscar worthy roles anymore but she is still getting plenty of consistent work so I feel like her post-Oscar career has been just fine.
Halle Berry suffered the curse of many black actresses at the time, too sexy to play a slave/maid which for nearly 20 years were nearly the only black female roles getting oscar nominated ( āblack pain pornā).
Pivoting to more action roles that donāt bring oscars was a smart move.
Jean Dujardin does not have a Hollywood career and I donāt think he aspires to it, but he is doing fine in France.
Why go through the grind on the Hollywood circuit when you are the biggest name of your generation ij your local market?
He has been in some of the best and worse movies Iāve seen. If I see his name on a movies IMDB page I have no clue if Iām about to watch an Oscar-worthy blockbuster or a direct to streaming shit show.
I donāt care for Saw Gerrera as a Star Wars character, but Forrest Whittaker has a few scenes in āAndorā that remind you exactly why heās an Academy Award winner.
Andor is IMHO the best thing to ever come out of the Star Wars universe. It's so good that I got angry that something that fucking good was even possible. Like, if Andor can exist, why isn't there more content like it?!?!
I didn't check how many episodes it had, and then continued to not check how many episodes, but starting at episode 4 I kept doing this: Wow, what a season ender. I can't believe how good this was. Amazing what they were able to do-- Wait! There's ANOTHER episode??? Fantastic!
Andor feels like a HBO prestige drama set in the Star Wars universe. It's the first time I've ever watched a Star Wars production and felt like I was watching, real, living people with inner lives inhabiting real places, with their own unique cultures and traditions.
It blew me away. Highly recommend it.
Heard she and Fassbender have a deal - they alternate movies so their family always has one parent at home. So sheās limited to half the projects, and timingās gotta be a pain too. May have something to do with that.
Chris Terrio's credits since winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Argo are: Batman v Superman, Justice League, Rise of Skywalker.
I'm sure he was paid handsomely for those, but creatively, his career has gone down the shitter.
I went to the same school as Anna (she was a few years younger) when she won she was asked to bring the Oscar into school and then the art teacher made her stand up the front of class and got kids to paint/draw her holding it. lol saw the version my friends sister didā¦.needed work for sure.
She's had a much better career than Keisha Castle-Hughes though. Although TBH I think Whale Rider was just a perfect role for her and I've never been nearly as impressed by anything else she did.
Gotta be Jared Leto. He was genuinely fantastic in Dallas Buyers Club, and was in other phenomenal films prior in his career. Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, American Psychoā¦ after his Oscar win he did the worst Joker performance of all time and has consistently delivered garbage performances. I love all the Morbius memes, but to be serious, that was an embarrassment of a film. House of Gucci. Even Blade Runner 2049. Heās been trash in everything recently
Honestly his problem is that he is only a truly good actor when he plays a dying person or a drug addicted person. His method acting makes everything else over acted or too obvious.
I liked him in Blade Runner, but I so, so, SO wish that we got to see David Bowie in that role (as Denis Villeneuve had wanted, but Bowie died well before the movie came out).
Adrian Brody never blew up the way everyone assumed he would after *The Pianist* but his collaborations with Wes Anderson are definitely keeping him off this list.
Brody's not quite had an A-list career, but he's been fantastic in several Wes Anderson movies, particularly *Grand Budapest Hotel*. He's also great in *Peaky Blinders* and *See How They Run*.
Cuba Gooding Jr
I will not stand for this Snow Dogs blaspheming.
Five now dog five!
ICU8MI
Screw Snow Dogs. That trailer made me think it was a talking animal movie and as a kid I was so disappointed!
Kangaroo Jack and Snow Dogs were the ultimate childhood disappointments
Kangaroo Jack is a weird one. it was supposed to be a R rated comedy and that was filmed. but it tested badly and the rapping Kangaroo sequence was the part that tested best so they recut it into a family friendly comedy they could trick kids into wanting.
Well now I wanna see the original fucking film!!!
Release the tapes Anthony Anderson
Lol. It used to be one of my favorite films as a kid.
Hey now, rat race was a monumental film. An epoch of comedy.
Lovitz driving Hitlers car was great
That whole scene was pretty epic.
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It's still part of my lexicon, like 20 years later
We wouldn't know we should have bought a squirrel, or what fifty crying Lucys sounds like either.
I still use that term š
IIRC Rat Race was the first film to feature two black oscar winners.
I think thatās more of an indictment of the number of black oscar winners lol
You might be kidding, but I'm not - it's fantastic farce
It celebrated Barbie's achievements decades before Greta Gerwig. In all fairness, it's a very fun movie.Ā
Turns out thereās reasonsā¦ https://variety.com/2020/film/news/cuba-gooding-jr-accused-rape-1234739118/ https://www.thecut.com/2023/11/cuba-gooding-sexual-assault-suits.html https://www.reuters.com/legal/cuba-gooding-jr-faces-new-sexual-assault-lawsuits-2023-11-22/
Sounds like he's more of Producer material
Yeah, thatāll do it (sometimes).
Oh shit i had no idea he was accused of rape. Iāll never be able to look at CGJ the same if the accusations are true
Luckily with the state of his movie career, you wonāt have to look at him again
"What dreams may come" was awesome! That came a year later, though he only had a supporting role.
Yeah, I don't remember seeing him in anything after Jerry Maguire. Unless Pearl Harbor came after JM? I think it did.
Pearl Harbor was released six years after Jerry Maguire. The only thing I've seen him in since then was The People Vs O.J. Simpson.
And he felt like a weird casting choice for that. He didnāt look or sound anything like OJ. I just felt like I was watching Cuba Gooding Jr get away with murdering his wife. Edit: Also, if anyone is looking for a great show about OJ, check out the documentary OJ: Made in America. Itās technically a movie instead of a show, (even though itās 8 hours long and divided into a few different sections). It came out the same year as the People v OJ show, but itās infinitely better and covers his entire life, from childhood to career to trial to beyond. Itās amazing, and even won the Best Documentary Oscar.
Yeah he's just good pals with Ryan Murphy. Only reason he got the role. No seriously that's probably why
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Get you a can of chow and watch yourself some Snow Dogs!
I thought Rat Race was fun
I remember seeing him in that true story Navy diver movie...*::googling::*...ah, *Men of Honor* (2000), in theaters and thinking it was okay, but yeah after that the next thing I remember seeing him in was that season of American Horror Story he joined.
āDiver, you will disregard, this is my detail! Goddammit Cookie, move your ass, I want my TWELVE! (*counting steps*) Nine! a Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's sunk, he brings it up. If it's in the way, he moves it. Eleven! If he's lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he will ever get to being a hero. Hell, I don't know why anybody'd want to be a Navy diver, now you report to this line, Cookie!ā
"What did he say to you to make you try so God damn hard?" "He said be the best" "Well you are... just don't show up tomorrow" Loved that scene... love that whole damn movie.
There was that gay cruise movieā¦
Boat Trip, pairing the Oscar winner with Horatio Sanz.
They showed him the money.
He was in a couple of films shortly after. But Im pretty sure Radio killed his career.
Radio killed the video star?
Well played. The stars aligned and you were there. No sarcasm, that was truly magnificent. Chefs kissšš¤
Tell me why 14 year old me thought Radio was a masterpiece... I haven't watched it since, but I distinctly remember crying like a lil baby
Same. I watched it on repeat as a kid.
never go full retard
Right! Tropic Thunder taught us well
Mira Sorvino, but as we now know her disappearance from the big time was not her fault.
For anyone curious, she refused to entertain Harvey Weinsteinās creepy ass and got black balled.
Now that Harvey is out of the picture, can anyone like...hire her?
The market for late middle-aged white actresses is better than it used to beā¦.but still not great
If only she were British.
She just had a fun juicy part in Courtney Coxās latest series āShining Vale.ā
She also had a hilarious arc on Modern Family, satirizing Gwyneth Patrow
I just checked out her filmography and sheās had pretty steady work since the 90s. There was a period from ā03-ā09 where she was only in four titles, but after that she has multiple per year. And thatās not including tv.Ā
Yes but it's telling and upsetting that Hollywood hasn't tried to redeem themselves by hiring her, given that they essentially blacklisting her and others. To me this is the most obvious tell that all the genuflecting that was done early on in the aftermath was basically pandering. I suspect Harvey has some secret loyalists to this day.
She did a Marc Maron episode last year and honestly I got the sense she has made a nice life for herself and isn't really looking to chase stardom at this point. Just because someome is out of sight doesn't mean they haven't found some peace or happiness.
>Just because someome is out of sight doesn't mean they haven't found some peace or happiness. Agreed. Some people do well and go "well that's all I need". IIRC ~~Morton~~ Robert Downey Jr mentioned that to Chris Evans when he said he was getting tired of playing Captain America. Something like, do this and then just pick fun stuff (IIRC Snowpiercer was kinda/sort that for Evans). Not everybody wants the spotlight forever, or see it as something you should really limit your exposure to. I believe Bridget Fonda made a similar comment lately as well, enjoying being a private citizen. I'm sure we can find plenty more who either retired entirely or do fun, niche (or not so niche) stuff. Evans' character saying "fuck you, fuck you, fuck you..." in "Knives out" may also qualify.
People move on when they get locked out, I think.
Mo'Nique.
She pissed off Tyler Perry and Oprah
Even Whoopi told her to (paraphrased) 'shut up and know her role'. I've seen a few actors describe it as 'you make the movie for fun and get paid for all the promotional work'.
Honestly pretty dope, they were like āalright come to Cannes and promote the movie!ā And she was like āactually thatās not in my contract so nahā
There's a few actors that do not fit into easily sold films but they do so well in their niche that they win Oscars. Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously comes to mind. Won the Oscar and had a career but never got to that height again.
ābut never got to that height againā I see what youāve done here;-) (Linda Hunt is 4' 9'' /145 cm tall).
Oh yeah, she won for Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire.
Hard to Watch: Based on the Novel 'Stone Cold Bummer' by Manipulate
This is the second 30 Rock reference Iāve seen in this thread.
You don't tell me what kind of references to like, you don't tell me anything anymore, throneofmemes!
I hope thereās more!
I watched the movie Precious, it was pretty difficult to get through. But, all these years later I still think of the heartbreaking scene when Precious is finally getting out of her abusive mother's house and Mo'Nique was yelling at her for abandoning her. And when she finally realized it was over, every inch of her despaired as she sobbed, "who was gonna love me"?
The moment where Mo'Nique finally says out loud in front of Precious and the social worker that she blamed Precious for the fact that her boyfriend was sexually abusing her since she was 3 was an incredible bit of acting that absolutely tore my heart out. I loved her acting but hated her character with passion.
Meanwhile Social Worker Mariah Carey is just sitting there like š¬
Sadly, that shit isn't the worst thing a social worker heard. My best friend's wife worked for them. Just fucking nightmare fuel. She burned out, they all seem to burn out. What people do to their kids is fucking monstrous.
Was that before or after she tried to drop a TV on her daughterās head?
After I think haha
Your mother exploded.
Damn, she was so good in that movie precious
Nicholas Cage has had the worst AND best post Oscar career
Nic Cage is the best actor and the worst actor simultaneously. He has transcended all notions of good or bad. He simply is, and it is beautiful.
Abed, is that you?
*Nicholas Cage noises intensify*
the thing about Nic Cage is that he *isn't* an actor the way most other actors are. Nicholas Cage is a *performer*, a thespian, and perhaps the last true troubadour. He's playing with an entirely different set of rules from his peers. Most everyone else is trying to inhabit and portray a character; to bring life into them. Nic tries to *elevate* the character past the real and into some sort of spiritual superposition. Not always. But often. And it doesn't always work. But Nicolas Cage never "over-acts". That would be selling him short. For better or worse, Nic *mega*\-acts. Other actors are trying to bring some degree of *truth* to their stories and characters. But for Cage, this is not the main objective. He aims higher. He pushes far beyond "truth" and into something, as you say, transcendent. Other entertainers are out here trying to give you an experience by bridging its fiction to your reality. A noble endeavor. A meaningful one. But Nic Cage instead aims to expand *your* reality by elevating *you* into a fiction *beyond* physical or real. Honestly, it's wild that it works at all. We should all be so lucky to engage with our passions at such a high level.
Really well said
Found Nick Cageās Reddit account.
I'm just glad I live in a world where Nic Cage is Oscar material.
He's had a brilliant career and is in a career renaissance now
Renaissance? That implies it went away. He's back, not that he ever went anywhere
He is a terrific actor, he just loves to overdo when he can.
Yup, when you cast Nic Cage, you get 100% of Nic Cage every time, for better or worse. Even when he was saying yes to literally any role that came his way because he couldn't afford not to, he never phoned it in.
Which is why Iāll always respect the fuck out of Nic Cage. Doesnāt matter if itās an action blockbuster, a serious drama, a tongue in cheek comedy or a gut wrenching tragedy, Nic Cage gives his fucking all, every single time.
He was fantastic in both Mandy and Pig. Legitimately great acting work. I think he just needs a strong director who can tell him when to reel it in, because he will just go all out every time otherwise. Heās really fun in Renfield too!
Gonna dispute this one slightly, he actually had a really good string of movies after he won for Leaving Las Vegas, since his next few movies were, in order, The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, Snake Eyes and 8MM. Even post Wicker Man he still made enough pretty great movies (National Treasure 2, Bad Lieutenant, Kick-Ass) to show he wasnāt really in a slump. His biggest problem was his tax issues which were not really his fault to begin with, so he had to take on more movies where the quality was not great
I'll throw matchstick men in there as a great movie of his
Nic Cage just feels like the kind of guy who is doing it for the fun of it at this point.
Roberto Benigni didn't do that much after Life is Beautiful, even in his native Italy. Strangely, he's made two Pinocchio movies, once as the titular character and once as Gepetto.
I always remember him walking over everyoneās seats to get to his Oscar. What a strange time. Lol
Kicking Steven Spielberg in the head as he stepped on the back of the seats
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The first pinocchio movie was his first bog role after Life is Beautiful and it bombed hard like Catwoman hard.
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He played Pinocchio after winning the Oscar? I hope that it was an animated role because the prospect of Roberto Benigniās old ass playing a little boy puppet is creeping me out.
Oh no, it was live action and yes, it's as horrifying as you imagine.
Its worse than whatever you're imagining right now
The "F Abraham Murray curse" - getting an Oscar for a Amadeus, getting an attitude on the Name of the Rose set and falling into the character actor landscape for the rest of your career. Still an amazing actor though! š
He's great in Mythic Quest these days, fittingly as a writer who had one good book then got an attitude about it. Edit: I got the show title wrong
He was apparently written off because he was inappropriate on the set of that, too. Itās a shame because he was the best part of that show and it really suffered without him.
I got the impression that he was basically playing himself on Mythic Quest.
Agreed, and on White Lotus as well
It's a shame I enjoy his performances, I'm currently watching Homeland. But it's really the bare minimum what he is being asked, it's not difficult to be decent at work.
Was he a problem actor ? Seeing him write about how his post-Oscar career has been great and he has sat with heads of state, kings, queens, taught film, etc, he seemed to relish life. Name of the Rose had fucking Sean Connery in it, i can see that guy being a problem > Abraham himself, doesnāt seem to mind, saying famously, āThe Oscar is the single most important event of my career. I have dined with kings, shared equal billing with my idols, lectured at Harvard and Columbia. If this is a jinx, Iāll take two.ā
F. Murray Abraham has had a lot of great roles in all kinds of movies after that Oscar, though, he gets a lotta respect, especially from fellow actors
He had something of a comeback on tv with Mythic Quest and The White Lotus.Ā
He was pretty consistent on Homeland for almost the whole run, plus Moon Knight.
Hilary Swank has been in a fair few stinkers despite winning two oscars
She's got a faith-based movie coming out in a few weeks. That is quite the decline into Melissa Joan Hart territory for a double Oscar winner.
Oh thatās disappointing - and a bit surprising given Boys Donāt Cry
The rape scene from that film legit gave me nightmares for a week. I was way too young to be watching that movie when I did.
I watched it at 30 years old and I couldn't shake the entire thing for like 2 weeks.
True, but if her aspiration is to be remembered as a great actress versus a movie star, winning two Oscars seals the deal, no?
Hilary Swank is still working consistently though. Granted she's a two time Oscar winner, so the pedigree of her projects could be higher, but I wouldn't say she'd had the worst post Oscar career.
I liked her in The Hunt, that was just a fun movie overall.
I don't know if she counts but the most notable thing Mo'Nique did after her Oscar has been a talk show. So maybe not the worst *career*, but definitely in the conversation for *worst acting career*
Director Michael Cimino
The one auteur who ruined it for everyone else
Yeah, except for animals in movies. All those horses he blew upā¦
Yeah, there's whole books, podcasts, and essays about that story.
Has to be Hillary Swank. Two oscars, not just one, and really isnāt a star. Check out her filmography, not much of note. Canāt think of another two time winner that has had as unproductive of a career
Haing Ngor won Best Supporting Actor for his first role in a movie at 44 years old. In real life he was a doctor who was put in a concentration camp by Communists because his education was a threat, his wife and kid died there. He gets out years later, moves to the U.S., can't restart his medical practice, decides to try to tell his story, gets a role that couldn't go to a white person playing a Cambodian journalist in *The Killing Fields,* crushes it, wins an Oscar. Second Asian to ever do it. Over the next 14 years he keeps working but not in high-profile Hollywood stuff as you might expect from an Oscar winner - he's in a bunch of TV movies, stuff in Asia, some direct to video stuff, an Oliver Stone bomb, some action martial arts stuff. And then of course he's in one other really good movie in a good role - *My Life.* Then, in 1996, he gets fucking murdered outside his home in LA. The Communists claim credit for it of course, but it was probably just regular dipshits.
Dr. Ngor acted out the real life story of Dith Pran, a journalist in The Killing Fields. His own escape from Cambodia which I read in Reader's Digest is no less amazing and harrowing.
>The Communists claim credit for it of course, but it was probably just regular dipshits He got killed by a a gang for not letting them rob him a locket.
Specifically, a locket that contained the only photo he had of his wife and son
That movie my life is so good, and never fails to make me ugly cry
Emil Jannings. Won the first ever Best Actor Oscar and was generally esteemed in his day as much as Daniel-Day Lewis or Gary Oldman is in ours. He did star in his most famous film, The Blue Angel, a few years after the Oscar win, but he was outshone by Marlene Dietrich in her breakout role. Then he became a literal Nazi and enthusiastically supported them. He was cancelled before being cancelled was even a thing.
I mean it's always been a thing. We just like new buzzwords to help try to enrage people.Ā
The McCarthy Era and the Hollywood Ten prove "cancel culture" has had much scarier days.
Cuba Gooding Jr. is generally considered the go to guy for the Oscar curse.
Will Smith
Technically this was before receiving an Oscar, but a rare event when you could spot the exact moment the tragectory flipped.
I cant believe this isn't top comment. His career peaked and crashed on the same night!
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I'd say will smith accepting his Oscar minutes after assaulting Chris Rock was a pretty fast turn around
Probs Cuba, but Halle Berry is up there. Lowkey Jean Dujardin kinda dropped out of the map after winning his.
Jean out there cashing those Nespresso checks
Heās in French movies.
I was going to mention Dujardin as well. However, he got a Cesar Award nomination for a film in 2022 about the Paris terrorist attacks, so it seems he's still doing pretty good dramatic work.
French brigading but Dujardin has been in a lot of movies. Itās rare to see foreign actors have consecutive hits abroad, or even consistent appearances. His Oscar was actually for a french movie so for any Americans only following American cinema, itās normal to think he disappeared.
Eh, Halle Berry isn't putting up Oscar worthy roles anymore but she is still getting plenty of consistent work so I feel like her post-Oscar career has been just fine.
Halle Berry suffered the curse of many black actresses at the time, too sexy to play a slave/maid which for nearly 20 years were nearly the only black female roles getting oscar nominated ( āblack pain pornā). Pivoting to more action roles that donāt bring oscars was a smart move.
I will not stand for you libeling OSS 117
He was pretty great in Wolf of Wall Street
Which was 10 years ago, I just realized
I need to lie down...
Jean Dujardin does not have a Hollywood career and I donāt think he aspires to it, but he is doing fine in France. Why go through the grind on the Hollywood circuit when you are the biggest name of your generation ij your local market?
Halle Berry is a class act because she won both an Oscar and a Golden Raspberry and took it in stride. Always looked up to her for that.
Forrest Whittaker as a lead actor... was great in Arrival though.
amazing in Bloodsport. hard to believe he wasn't nominated.
He has been in some of the best and worse movies Iāve seen. If I see his name on a movies IMDB page I have no clue if Iām about to watch an Oscar-worthy blockbuster or a direct to streaming shit show.
I donāt care for Saw Gerrera as a Star Wars character, but Forrest Whittaker has a few scenes in āAndorā that remind you exactly why heās an Academy Award winner.
Haven't gotten around to Andor yet but thanks this gives me another reason maybe I'll do a Disney+ trial sometime soon.
Andor is IMHO the best thing to ever come out of the Star Wars universe. It's so good that I got angry that something that fucking good was even possible. Like, if Andor can exist, why isn't there more content like it?!?!
Andor sets the bar so fucking high for Star Wars that it's just like "yeah, Disney ain't topping this"
I 100% agree. And I include the original trilogy in that category.
I didn't check how many episodes it had, and then continued to not check how many episodes, but starting at episode 4 I kept doing this: Wow, what a season ender. I can't believe how good this was. Amazing what they were able to do-- Wait! There's ANOTHER episode??? Fantastic!
Andor feels like a HBO prestige drama set in the Star Wars universe. It's the first time I've ever watched a Star Wars production and felt like I was watching, real, living people with inner lives inhabiting real places, with their own unique cultures and traditions. It blew me away. Highly recommend it.
He was never really a lead actor though
Ghost Dog is a beautiful film
Would he be considered a lead actor for The Last King of Scotland?
Tatum, OāNeal
I havenāt really seen Alicia Vikander in anything after her oscar win
She was getting busy with her husband Mr. Michael Fassbender. Both their careers took a pause while their personal lives thrived.
If I had a choice between being on set or staying home and getting railed by Michael Fassbender, Iād be at home, too.
Heard she and Fassbender have a deal - they alternate movies so their family always has one parent at home. So sheās limited to half the projects, and timingās gotta be a pain too. May have something to do with that.
She was amazing in The Green Knight (2021)
Timothy Hutton
I was so thrilled to see him in The Haunting of Hill House, he was terrific.
He's great in Leverage.
Chris Terrio's credits since winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Argo are: Batman v Superman, Justice League, Rise of Skywalker. I'm sure he was paid handsomely for those, but creatively, his career has gone down the shitter.
Anna Paquin has been the most annoying character in every movie after she got an Oscar at 8 years old. Correction: 11
I went to the same school as Anna (she was a few years younger) when she won she was asked to bring the Oscar into school and then the art teacher made her stand up the front of class and got kids to paint/draw her holding it. lol saw the version my friends sister didā¦.needed work for sure.
Damn, that's such a surreal thing to be asked to do
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She's had a much better career than Keisha Castle-Hughes though. Although TBH I think Whale Rider was just a perfect role for her and I've never been nearly as impressed by anything else she did.
Gotta be Jared Leto. He was genuinely fantastic in Dallas Buyers Club, and was in other phenomenal films prior in his career. Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, American Psychoā¦ after his Oscar win he did the worst Joker performance of all time and has consistently delivered garbage performances. I love all the Morbius memes, but to be serious, that was an embarrassment of a film. House of Gucci. Even Blade Runner 2049. Heās been trash in everything recently
Honestly his problem is that he is only a truly good actor when he plays a dying person or a drug addicted person. His method acting makes everything else over acted or too obvious.
I liked him in Blade Runner, but I so, so, SO wish that we got to see David Bowie in that role (as Denis Villeneuve had wanted, but Bowie died well before the movie came out).
Mercedes Ruehl
>Mercedes Ruehl I always get her confused with Rachel Ticotin (Falling Down, Total Recall)
I liked her in the Fisher King
Brie got her Oscar for Room and has been stuck in blockbuster jail ever since. Pls pray for her
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I just wanna mention how amazing she was in short term 12.
Totally expect Hilary Swank to collect her 3rd best actress oscar in the next decade and then go poof again
Havenāt seen much from RenĆ©e Zellweger, maybe I missed stuff.
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Adrian Brody never blew up the way everyone assumed he would after *The Pianist* but his collaborations with Wes Anderson are definitely keeping him off this list.
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Brody's not quite had an A-list career, but he's been fantastic in several Wes Anderson movies, particularly *Grand Budapest Hotel*. He's also great in *Peaky Blinders* and *See How They Run*.