Oscar winners who never amounted to much?
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Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
Nic Cage
Cuba Gooding Jr.
i don't understand Nic Cage's career. he was simply transformative in Leaving Las Vegas. and then what?
Cuba same thing.
who are the others and why do they start sucking and taking sucky roles only after their Oscar wins?
Cuba Gooding Jr.
i don't understand Nic Cage's career. he was simply transformative in Leaving Las Vegas. and then what?
Cuba same thing.
who are the others and why do they start sucking and taking sucky roles only after their Oscar wins?
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
Because the Academy Awards aren't a real measure of quality.
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
Because after they win, people throw lots of crappy scripts at them and lots of money to do them. Artistic ambitions/respectability/credibility thus go out the window.
Actors like Daniel Day Lewis, who have pride in their work, are thus not affected.
Actors like Daniel Day Lewis, who have pride in their work, are thus not affected.
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
Quite a bit of them sucked before and after. Then there are people like Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry who sucked in their films that they won for.
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James Dunn won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, in which he played Francie's alcoholic father, but his career had derailed before then after a promising start in the 1930s and then derailed again afterwards because of his real-life alcoholism. Here's what it says on IMDB:
By the late 1930s he was drinking heavily and became unemployable. He would appear in small roles in films during the early 1940s, but those parts were few and far between. In 1945 he was able to make a comeback and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), but his rejuvenated career would not continue. By 1951 he would again be unemployed and bankrupt. Television would later supply some work
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Because Nicolas Cage is broke and takes any job he can get to pay his debts.
Because Nicolas Cage is broke and takes any job he can get to pay his debts.
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
Generally it's because they can now do whatever they want. Which is how Halle Berry ended up in Catwoman and Charlize Theron in the much better but still disappointing Aeon Flux.
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Nicolas Cage's best performance is in Adaptation, which was well after Leaving Las Vegas. He was pretty good in Bad Lieutenant too. He's had a few others as well, but he does a lot of crap because he needs the money. It's not exactly breaking news.
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Cage apparently loves living a posh lifestyle and spends money like there is no tomorrow, so he takes any paying project. A lot of Oscar winners don't really deserve it and won it for reasons other than being the best performance.
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I find it more interesting that there are a bunch of actresses who seem to lose boxoffice or critical clout (or both) after winning the Oscar in the last 10 or 15 years. Witherspoon, Kidman, Zeta Jones, Zellweger, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Charleze Theron, Rachel Weisz, to name a few. Portman might be down that path as well.
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F. Murray Abraham fell off the face of the Earth, but I don't think his acting ability has diminished. For some reason, though, he only gets crap roles or supporting parts in TV shows.
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
Last thing I saw him in before that was some Syfy movie.
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Nicolas Cage is polarizing in the fact that the majority of his films are shit, but he's able to pull off Oscar-caliber performances if he puts in any sort of effort. Joe is one of the best movies I've seen this year. I'm surprised they didn't wait to release it for him to garner some Best Actor buzz. F. Murray Abraham fell off the face of the Earth, but I don't think his acting ability has diminished. For some reason, though, he only gets crap roles or supporting parts in TV shows.
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Nic Cage has done a ton of stuff since Leaving Las Vegas that varies from good, to really good to Great..
The Rock
Face/Off
Bringing Out The Dead
Adaptation
Lord of War
Bad Lieutenant
Joe
And lesser but still pretty good.
The Family Man
Matchstick Men
The Weatherman
Knowing
Kick Ass
And of course he's done a shit heap of crap. But I challenge you to look at the career of Dennis Hopper and tell me Cage is any different. Both great actors with a huge filmography. Both did a LOT of crap, but still managed to do a lot of great work in some classic movies along the way. Except no one dumps on Dennis Hoppers career, even when he was alive.
You shave down Nic Cages entire career to films that are only decent, good and great, and he's still got a stellar and robust filmography for a 46 year old man.
The Rock
Face/Off
Bringing Out The Dead
Adaptation
Lord of War
Bad Lieutenant
Joe
And lesser but still pretty good.
The Family Man
Matchstick Men
The Weatherman
Knowing
Kick Ass
And of course he's done a shit heap of crap. But I challenge you to look at the career of Dennis Hopper and tell me Cage is any different. Both great actors with a huge filmography. Both did a LOT of crap, but still managed to do a lot of great work in some classic movies along the way. Except no one dumps on Dennis Hoppers career, even when he was alive.
You shave down Nic Cages entire career to films that are only decent, good and great, and he's still got a stellar and robust filmography for a 46 year old man.
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
^Dennis Hopper is one of my favorite actors, but you have a good point. Also, you forgot Raising Arizona on the Nic Cage list.
Bruce Willis, De Niro, and Nicholson fall under the "churn out what you can for $$$" umbrella, but have enough excellent work that it largely overshadows the shit they spit out.
Bruce Willis, De Niro, and Nicholson fall under the "churn out what you can for $$$" umbrella, but have enough excellent work that it largely overshadows the shit they spit out.
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
he's life never sucked after winning oscar, it's all depends on acting and direction.
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Nic Cage has done a ton of stuff since Leaving Las Vegas that varies from good, to really good to Great..
The Rock
Face/Off
Bringing Out The Dead
Adaptation
Lord of War
Bad Lieutenant
Joe
And lesser but still pretty good.
The Family Man
Matchstick Men
The Weatherman
Knowing
Kick Ass
And of course he's done a shit heap of crap. But I challenge you to look at the career of Dennis Hopper and tell me Cage is any different. Both great actors with a huge filmography. Both did a LOT of crap, but still managed to do a lot of great work in some classic movies along the way. Except no one dumps on Dennis Hoppers career, even when he was alive.
You shave down Nic Cages entire career to films that are only decent, good and great, and he's still got a stellar and robust filmography for a 46 year old man.
The Rock
Face/Off
Bringing Out The Dead
Adaptation
Lord of War
Bad Lieutenant
Joe
And lesser but still pretty good.
The Family Man
Matchstick Men
The Weatherman
Knowing
Kick Ass
And of course he's done a shit heap of crap. But I challenge you to look at the career of Dennis Hopper and tell me Cage is any different. Both great actors with a huge filmography. Both did a LOT of crap, but still managed to do a lot of great work in some classic movies along the way. Except no one dumps on Dennis Hoppers career, even when he was alive.
You shave down Nic Cages entire career to films that are only decent, good and great, and he's still got a stellar and robust filmography for a 46 year old man.
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Re: Why do some Oscar winners suck after winning?
And of course he's done a shit heap of crap. But I challenge you to look at the career of Dennis Hopper and tell me Cage is any different. Both great actors with a huge filmography. Both did a LOT of crap, but still managed to do a lot of great work in some classic movies along the way. Except no one dumps on Dennis Hoppers career, even when he was alive.
You shave down Nic Cages entire career to films that are only decent, good and great, and he's still got a stellar and robust filmography for a 46 year old man.
You shave down Nic Cages entire career to films that are only decent, good and great, and he's still got a stellar and robust filmography for a 46 year old man.