# What actor has fallen the furthest since their Oscar? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660 "2005-09-02T00:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/1 "2005-09-02T00:29:50Z")
I’m of the opinion that winning an Oscar allows someone to make crap for many, many years afterwards. But who’s fallen the furthest? For the purposes of this conversation, let’s limit the Oscar-winning to Best Actor/Actress/Supporting Actor/Supporting Actress. This automatically disqualifies Sylvester Stallone. Is it Kim Basinger, who made the horrible _Cellular_ and _Elvis Has Left the Building_? Let’s try to keep it contemporary, as well. Hearing about someone from the '20’s is of no interest to me, either. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/2 "2005-09-02T00:33:35Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Let’s try to keep it contemporary, as well. Hearing about someone from the '20’s is of no interest to me, either. _Well!_ [stalks haughtily out of thread with scintillating posts about Janet Gaynor and Luise Rainer] ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/3 "2005-09-02T00:37:30Z")
Cuba Gooding, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/4 "2005-09-02T00:40:28Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > This automatically disqualifies Sylvester Stallone. That wouldn’t have been much of a fall, though. [QUOTE=Eve] Well! [stalks haughtily out of thread with scintillating posts about Janet Gaynor and Luise Rainer] [Tootie] You’re in troouuubbble! [/Tootie] ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/5 "2005-09-02T00:40:30Z")
\*\*Halle Berry. \*\* Die Another Day. Gothika. Catwoman. Robots. that episode of “Punk’d” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/6 "2005-09-02T00:41:13Z")
Jamie Foxx went from the great **Ray** to the steaming pile that is **Stealth**. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/7 "2005-09-02T00:46:44Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Cuba Gooding, Jr. Dear god. [Chill Factor](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163579/) alone should be enough for him to win this contest easily. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/8 "2005-09-02T00:48:55Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Dear god. [Chill Factor](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163579/) alone should be enough for him to win this contest easily. Wasn’t he in Boat Trip. If this is true (I refuse to look up that movie) then he is going to be hard to beat. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/9 "2005-09-02T00:50:30Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Cuba Gooding, Jr. He gets my vote! ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/10 "2005-09-02T00:50:43Z")
Louis Gosset, Jr: from **An Officer and A Gentleman** to **Iron Eagle 4**. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/11 "2005-09-02T00:59:51Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Wasn’t he in Boat Trip. If this is true (I refuse to look up that movie) then he is going to be hard to beat. Yeah, that’s the one I was thinking of, specifically. I saw the previews to that two and a half years ago and am still suffering PTSD. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/12 "2005-09-02T01:01:39Z")
I think **Eve** and I are starting to meld into one person. I came in here specifically to make a smartmouth comment about Louise Rainer and she beat me to it. Again. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/13 "2005-09-02T01:09:47Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > Wasn’t he in Boat Trip. If this is true (I refuse to look up that movie) then he is going to be hard to beat. Yep. He was also in Snow Dogs. That’s the hat trick. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/14 "2005-09-02T01:19:00Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Jamie Foxx went from the great **Ray** to the steaming pile that is **Stealth**. That may’ve been bad - I didn’t want to see it - but even if it was bad, he hasn’t had time to fall far enough. Stealth was still a big-budget action movie. Cuba Gooding couldn’t get into an action movie if he was in a crowd scene. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/15 "2005-09-02T01:33:11Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That may’ve been bad - I didn’t want to see it - but even if it was bad, he hasn’t had time to fall far enough. Stealth was still a big-budget action movie. Cuba Gooding couldn’t get into an action movie if he was in a crowd scene. Also, he must have still been working on it when he got his Oscar for **Ray** , so it’s not quite a post-Oscar stinker for the guy. So, what’s Marisa Tomei been up to, lately? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/16 "2005-09-02T01:40:33Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Jamie Foxx went from the great **Ray** to the steaming pile that is **Stealth**. I’m not sure that’s really fair. **Ray** was released in 1994, and Foxx won the oscar in early '95. **Stealth** was released in '95. Therefore, I’d assume that Foxx filmed Stealth long before he won the Oscar. And I agree that doing big-budget schlock is quite different from doing crappy B-movies. Nicolas Cage spent many a year as Jerry Bruckheimer’s gigolo, but I’d assume that was because he chose to do those movies, rather than because he couldn’t get anything better. Cuba Gooding Jr., on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/17 "2005-09-02T01:40:51Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > So, what’s Marisa Tomei been up to, lately? She was in a Hanes underwear commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/18 "2005-09-02T01:44:32Z")
Cuba was what I came in to say. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/19 "2005-09-02T01:44:51Z")
Patty Duke sure has been in a lot of crappy movies. A few years back, I just wanted to cry when I saw that she was starring in a made-for-TV “Amityville” horror flick. How the mighty have fallen. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/20 "2005-09-02T01:45:29Z")
\*\*Kevin Spacey \*\* followed up his Oscar for \*\*American Beauty \*\* with some craptacular movies such as \*\*Pay it Forward \*\* and the one about the guy on Death Row in Texas that is so bad I can’t even remember the name of it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660.md?page=2)