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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
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Halle Berry, Best Actress in 2002 for Monster’s Ball
Halle Berry reached new levels of serious acting when she played Leticia Musgrove in 2001’s Monster’s Ball. (And by serious, we mean seriously depressing.) She is wife to a death-row inmate and mother to a morbidly obese child who—spoiler, and we told you it was depressing—ends up killed in a hit-and-run, Leticia reaches out to similarly damaged security guard Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton). Their lovefest earned Berry an Oscar for Best Actress, making her the first African-American woman to win one.
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