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Chinese! I am Korean. Korean is the most perfect creature ever to sanctify the earth with the imprint of its foot.
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Now, Eve, I hope you know that it was not intended as an intentional slight. I just prefer to have an actual frame of reference that I can remember from my life.
However, if you have some dirt, let’s hear it.
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Dirt! Dirt! Dirt!
Speaking ill of the dead is fun.
OK, I got nuthin’. I just like stalking haughtily, is all.
Hell, how about Cher? Won for Moonstruck in 1987, and since then she’s…um…sold hair products on an infomercial. I mean, she still apparently releases albums and such, but the acting gigs seem to have dried up.
Yes, but to lose a decade once may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose it thrice looks like carelessness.
What are you talking about? That movie rocked!
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Maybe this is related to that “regression to the mean” thing, but some of these people didn’t really have far to fall because they weren’t that good to start with. They got a good role, or got lucky, or gave an unusually good performance, and then went back to the crap they’d always been doing.
Uh, Stallone’s never won any kind of Oscar.
Having Cancer does tend to slow down the movie making process.
Rocky was Best Picture of 1976. (Happy Bicentennial!)
Actually, Luise Rainer was from the 30’s, so she would have been fair game.
(She won two years in a row, The Great Ziegfeld in 1936 and The Good Earth in 1937. A lot of people thought her role in The Great Ziegfeld should have been for best supporting actress, if anything, not best actress–it was really for one telephone scene that she got the award. After that, in a couple of movies, but essentially dropped from the scene like stone. All I know is that she was rumored to be a difficult person, and that may have been the reason–fights with studio heads.This site says she is still alive at 95.)
(Janet Gaynor won in 1928 for two roles, the only time that was done, or, probably, allowed: Sunrise, and Street Angel. She actually was nominated again in 1937 for A Star is Born [one of the many versions] and seemed to work pretty steadily between Oscars, so her career didn’t exactly tank. As for scandal, Wikipedia says she was bi-sexual, and, even though she was married with kids, that may have caused her to be forced out of films after 1937. It also said that the great love of her life, and vice versa, was rumored to be Mary Martin.)
Well, he won the lead role in Oscar…
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean Stallone himself won the Oscar any more than Mark Lester won an Oscar for Oliver! or Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare in Love.
Granted, the Best Picture Oscar typically is - what? owned? - by the producer of a movie, Stallone did write Rocky and I think most folks think of him as the driving force behind it. So even if it doesn’t reside on his mantle physically, he gets credit for it…
…not that it matters - it really isn’t that great of a movie and was a poor choice for the award, IMHO…
as for the OP - Cuba came to mind first…
I know you recognize that he has had good roles, but I can’t believe Kingsley’s name would even come up in this thread.
He’s had a wonderful career since Gahndi.
Heck, he’s been nominated three more times since winning!
He was also in Schindler’s List. He probably would have gotten a nod for that role had it not been such a strong year for supporting actors.
Now, if you want to make a list of the “Worst Films After An Oscar Win”, his name may come up.
But BK has a great career.
Every actor appears in clunkers. It comes with the territory. Kingsley still gets good roles, but he seems to get a lot more bad or minimal ones. He’s practically nonexistant in Dave and Slipstream . His role was pretty smal in Sneakers and Slipstream, and Species was just slummin’.
But, heck, look at the awful stuff Donald Pleasance and Laurence Olivier had to do. Jaes Earl Jones was in City Limits, fer cryin’ out loud.
I was exposed to clips from Boat Trip as part of some kind of marketing sample. My response was “this movie should be unmade”
I predict Charlize Theron will have a spectacular fall once Aeon Flux opens.
Jack Nicholson won for Cuckoo’s Nest, and then he fell pretty far at the end of Batman.
Kind of late in the thread to post this but here is a link to all the Oscar Winners - Best Film, Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress and Director:
http://www.1728.com/page8.htm
Yes, it is a page from my website but it has ALL the Winners in the major Oscar categories on just one page.