Winning an Academy Award is probably the most coveted honor in the film industry.
However, this achievement has sometimes proved to be less of a blessing and more of a curse.
Throughout the years, there have been plenty of actors and actresses who peaked with their Oscars.
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These actors are listed in chronological order of the Oscar wins that they peaked with.
1Elizabeth Taylor
Won: Best Actress for ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
But where does an actor go after summiting the proverbial Everest in this way?
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Indeed, having proven everything she had to prove,Taylor never delivered a performance nearly as titanic again.
4Kim Basinger
Won: Best Supporting Actress for ‘L.A.
Confidential’ (1997)
The iconicL.A.
Confidentialis a paragon of the neo-noir genre, particularly as far as its representation in the 1990s is concerned.
And, like any great neo-noir, it has a phenomenal femme fatale inKim Basinger’s Lynn Bracken.
Basinger pretty much swept all awards that season, proving that her performance inL.A.
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Confidentialwas very much considered the best of her career at the time.
Or perhaps people just stopped hiring him because of his notoriously difficult behavior.
According to Mo’Nique, she accepted relatively low compensation forPreciousbecause she was friends with directorLee Daniels.
After that, Mo’Nique was allegedly labeled “difficult to work with” by the trio.
In other words,she was blacklisted, and her career in Hollywood was virtually overright then and there.
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