# 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:** 3
**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, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/41 "2005-09-02T05:40:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > Hey, uh, **Mr. Green Bean**? Dude? Nitpick: **Green Bean** is a female. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/42 "2005-09-02T05:43:29Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Nitpick: > > **Green Bean** is a female. \ ok, **Miss Green Bean** then. ---
**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, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/43 "2005-09-02T05:47:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > \ > > ok, **Miss Green Bean** then. While we’re nitpicking, _some_body did mention the '95 thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/44 "2005-09-02T05:49:17Z")
Peter Finch never made another film after winning [Best Actor in 1977](http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1977)☹ ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/45 "2005-09-02T05:51:08Z")
What’s it with Cuba Gooding and boats? Anyway, he should have won Oscar for Best Hairpiece for that stunning Four Tops Afro in _Men of Honor_. Cool name too, although the “Jnr” is overkill, in my opinion. Lots of blacks being nominated. Do they get crappy parts, or do they get easy Oscars? There’s one to get you thinking… ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/46 "2005-09-02T06:10:24Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Peter Finch never made another film after winning [Best Actor in 1977](http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1977)☹ Being dead does slow down most careers. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/47 "2005-09-02T06:12:11Z")
> [@Purd Werfect](#): > > Being dead does slow down most careers. Unless you’re a Chicago voter. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/48 "2005-09-02T06:12:11Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > I’d assume that Foxx filmed Stealth long before he won the Oscar. Just to confirm the thread’s speculation on this subject, Foxx had long put _Stealth_ in the can and was shooting _Jarhead_ when he acquired the little bald golden dude. Had a day off from the set and came back the next day to congratulations and good-natured ribbing from his co-stars. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/49 "2005-09-02T07:09:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Had a day off from the set and came back the next day to congratulations and good-natured ribbing from his co-stars. And, rumors to the contrary, the producers of _Stealth_ did not hold any of his family members hostage to ensure he’d return to the set. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/50 "2005-09-02T07:55:08Z")
Mira Sorvino? ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/51 "2005-09-02T08:03:30Z")
What about Louise Fletcher, the actress who was Nurse Ratched in _One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest_? She won a Best Actress Oscar and then… well, she’s [been in a lot of stuff,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001221/) but as to whether it’s any good… :o She actually deserved that Oscar, too. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/52 "2005-09-02T08:09:34Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > What about Louise Fletcher, the actress who was Nurse Ratched in _One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest_? She won a Best Actress Oscar and then… well, she’s [been in a lot of stuff,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001221/) but as to whether it’s any good… :o She actually deserved that Oscar, too. She’s fallen so far that [there are rumours that she has died.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=332272&highlight=fletcher) ---
**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, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/53 "2005-09-02T08:27:07Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Lots of blacks being nominated. Do they get crappy parts, or do they get easy Oscars? There’s one to get you thinking… Lots? We’ve had four so far that I’ve counted - Cuba Gooding, Louis Gossett, Halle Berry and Jamie Foxx. You can hardly call that a disproportionate number of careers that have gone south, especially considering that three of these have been in the last 10 or so years, let alone draw inferences about colour and “easy” Oscars: there may have been _undeserved_ Oscars {hello, Halle}, but that’s hardly a phenomenon confined to black actors. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/54 "2005-09-02T12:31:21Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > You can be Ray Milland if I can be Rosey Grier . . . I was thinking along the lines of Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. (and damn, HE should have gotton the Oscar for that performance). Did you notice both your names are palidromes? Maybe that has something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/55 "2005-09-02T13:22:30Z")
Joe Pesci. No movies since 1998, and his last good movie was Casino in 1995. If it weren’t for Scorsese, I don’t think he’d have any good movies. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/56 "2005-09-02T13:48:20Z")
Ben Kingsley has bounced a bit between good and bad roles, but can _Gandhi_ ever truly make up for his contributions to _What Planet Are You From?_ and _Species_? (And for those who might defend _Species_ for prurient reasons - try watching an edited-for-TV version of it all the way through, and then tell me it’s a good movie.) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/57 "2005-09-02T14:01:33Z")
Cuba was a one-hit wonder. For a real fall, try [Elizabeth Taylor](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000072/). She peaked in 1967, winning her 2nd Bald Guy for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1966) and had a couple of nice films released that year. But then Big NaDa. From one of the great actresses of the time to a joke (and then Michael Jackson apologist). ---
**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, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/58 "2005-09-02T14:10:19Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Elizabeth Taylor . . . From one of the great actresses of the time to a joke. I love Liz, but she could _never_ act her way out of a damp Kleenex, even in her salad days. I think even she herself would be the first to admit she was always a “beauty” and a “personality,” but never really a great actress. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/59 "2005-09-02T14:35:42Z")
[Tatum O’Neill](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/awards). Peaked the youngest and fell the fastest. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660/60 "2005-09-02T14:39:01Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Lots? We’ve had four so far that I’ve counted - Cuba Gooding, Louis Gossett, Halle Berry and Jamie Foxx. You can hardly call that a disproportionate number of careers that have gone south, especially considering that three of these have been in the last 10 or so years, let alone draw inferences about colour and “easy” Oscars: there may have been _undeserved_ Oscars {hello, Halle}, but that’s hardly a phenomenon confined to black actors. Yes, but Cuba did get a lot of nominations. I still maintain they have the coolest names, though. Even a potentially boring one like Jamie Fox is transformed by doubling the x. Now that’s what I call style. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-has-fallen-the-furthest-since-their-oscar/319660.md?page=4)