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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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Helen Hunt—Today
Hunt followed up her Oscar wins with some equally ambivalent performances. In Pay It Forward, she managed to bore us as a vision of tragedy. In Castaway, she was upstaged by a volleyball. Since then, she directed and had an incredible performance in The Sessions, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013. Seems like things are on the up for Hunt!
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