Looking Back
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
Kevin Costner, Best Director in 1991 for Dances with Wolves
As Lt. John Dunbar, Costner showed us how to befriend Native Americans and woo wolves on a desolate post-Civil War outpost. The epic 1990 film notably beat Goodfellas for Best Picture and was a success with both audiences and critics. The film proved so popular that the Sioux nation adopted Kevin Costner as an honorary member.
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