- Oscar love curse
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The Oscar love curse or Oscar curse is a superstition that the woman who wins the Academy Award for Best Actress will have her boyfriend or husband cheat on her, or divorce her soon after.[1][2][3][4] It has also been applied to the Best Supporting Actress.
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Occurrences
Best Actress
- Claudette Colbert (1935 It Happened One Night) and husband Norman Foster
- Bette Davis (1936 Dangerous and 1939 Jezebel) and husband Harmon Nelson
- Luise Rainer (1937 The Great Ziegfeld and 1938 The Good Earth) and husband Clifford Odets
- Ginger Rogers (1941 Kitty Foyle) and husband Lew Ayres
- Joan Fontaine (1942 Suspicion) and husband Brian Aherne
- Jennifer Jones (1944 The Song of Bernadette) and husband Robert Walker
- Joan Crawford (1946 Mildred Pierce) and husband Phillip Terry
- Olivia de Havilland (1947 To Each His Own and 1950 The Heiress) and husband Marcus Goodrich
- Jane Wyman (1948 Johnny Belinda) and husband Ronald Reagan
- Elizabeth Taylor (1961 Butterfield 8 and 1967 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and husbands Eddie Fisher and Richard Burton
- Julie Andrews (1965 Mary Poppins) and husband Tony Walton
- Barbra Streisand (1969 Funny Girl) and husband Elliot Gould
- Maggie Smith (1970 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and husband Robert Stephens
- Glenda Jackson (1971 Women in Love) and husband Roy Hodges
- Jane Fonda (1972 Klute) and husband Roger Vadim
- Liza Minnelli (1973 Cabaret) and husband Peter Allen
- Louise Fletcher (1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and husband Jerry Bick
- Faye Dunaway (1977 Network) and husband Peter Wolf
- Cher (1988 Moonstruck) and boyfriend Rob Camilletti
- Emma Thompson (1993 Howards End) and husband Kenneth Branagh
- Helen Hunt (1998 As Good as It Gets) and boyfriend later husband Hank Azaria
- Julia Roberts (2001 Erin Brockovich) and boyfriend Benjamin Bratt
- Halle Berry (2002 Monster's Ball) and husband Eric Benet. In 2010, Berry split with Canadian model boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry.
- Charlize Theron (2004 Monster) and longtime boyfriend Stuart Townsend
- Hilary Swank (2000 Boys Don't Cry and 2005 Million Dollar Baby) and husband Chad Lowe
- Reese Witherspoon (2006 Walk the Line) and husband Ryan Philippe
- Kate Winslet (2009 The Reader) and husband Sam Mendes
- Sandra Bullock (2010 The Blind Side) and husband Jesse James
Best Supporting Actress
- Shirley Jones (1961 Elmer Gantry) and husband Jack Cassidy
- Goldie Hawn (1970 Cactus Flower) and husband Gus Trikonis
- Anjelica Huston (1986 Prizzi's Honor) and boyfriend Jack Nicholson
- Geena Davis (1989 The Accidental Tourist) and husband Jeff Goldblum
- Kim Basinger (1998 L.A. Confidential) and husband Alec Baldwin
- Renee Zellweger (2004 Cold Mountain) and longtime boyfriend Jack White
- Jennifer Hudson (2007 Dreamgirls) and longtime boyfriend James Payton
Exceptions
Some actresses have managed to "break" the curse. On even rarer occasions have actresses (e.g. Maggie Smith) both experienced and broke the curse.
- Joanne Woodward (Best Actress, 1958 The Three Faces of Eve) and husband Paul Newman were married on January 29th, 1958, prior to the March 26th Oscar ceremony and remained so, until Newman's death in 2008.
- Susan Hayward (Best Actress, 1959 I Want to Live!) and husband Floyd Eaton Chalkley were married on February 8th, 1957, and remained so, until Chalkley's death in 1966.
- Simone Signoret (Best Actress, 1960 Room at the Top) and husband Yves Montand were married on December 22nd, 1951 and remained so, until Signoret's death in 1985.
- Sophia Loren (Best Actress, 1962 Two Women) and husband Carlo Ponti were married on September 17th, 1957. However, the 1962 annulment of their marriage was for legal, rather than personal reasons. Loren and Ponti were formally married on April 9th, 1966 and remained so, until Ponti's death in 2007.
- Maggie Smith (Best Supporting Actress, 1979 California Suite) and husband Beverley Cross were married on August 23rd, 1975 and remained so, until Cross's death in 1998.
- Jessica Tandy (Best Actress, 1990 Driving Miss Daisy) and husband Hume Cronyn were married on September 27th, 1942 and remained so, until Tandy's death in 1994.
- Judi Dench (Best Supporting Actress, 1999 Shakespeare in Love) and husband Michael Williams were married on February 5th, 1971 and remained so, until Williams' death in 2001.
References
- ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/oscar_love_curse_iD9TNporBvaKlWwdRowaOK
- ^ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/03/the_oscar_love_curse_is_sandra.html
- ^ http://movies.about.com/od/movienews/tp/best-actress-curse.htm
- ^ http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/a-line/curse-of-the-best-actress-oscar/408?nc
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1936–1940 Gale Sondergaard (1936) · Alice Brady (1937) · Fay Bainter (1938) · Hattie McDaniel (1939) · Jane Darwell (1940)
1941–1960 Mary Astor (1941) · Teresa Wright (1942) · Katina Paxinou (1943) · Ethel Barrymore (1944) · Anne Revere (1945) · Anne Baxter (1946) · Celeste Holm (1947) · Claire Trevor (1948) · Mercedes McCambridge (1949) · Josephine Hull (1950) · Kim Hunter (1951) · Gloria Grahame (1952) · Donna Reed (1953) · Eva Marie Saint (1954) · Jo Van Fleet (1955) · Dorothy Malone (1956) · Miyoshi Umeki (1957) · Wendy Hiller (1958) · Shelley Winters (1959) · Shirley Jones (1960)
1961–1980 Rita Moreno (1961) · Patty Duke (1962) · Margaret Rutherford (1963) · Lila Kedrova (1964) · Shelley Winters (1965) · Sandy Dennis (1966) · Estelle Parsons (1967) · Ruth Gordon (1968) · Goldie Hawn (1969) · Helen Hayes (1970) · Cloris Leachman (1971) · Eileen Heckart (1972) · Tatum O'Neal (1973) · Ingrid Bergman (1974) · Lee Grant (1975) · Beatrice Straight (1976) · Vanessa Redgrave (1977) · Maggie Smith (1978) · Meryl Streep (1979) · Mary Steenburgen (1980)
1981–2000 Maureen Stapleton (1981) · Jessica Lange (1982) · Linda Hunt (1983) · Peggy Ashcroft (1984) · Anjelica Huston (1985) · Dianne Wiest (1986) · Olympia Dukakis (1987) · Geena Davis (1988) · Brenda Fricker (1989) · Whoopi Goldberg (1990) · Mercedes Ruehl (1991) · Marisa Tomei (1992) · Anna Paquin (1993) · Dianne Wiest (1994) · Mira Sorvino (1995) · Juliette Binoche (1996) · Kim Basinger (1997) · Judi Dench (1998) · Angelina Jolie (1999) · Marcia Gay Harden (2000)
2001–present Jennifer Connelly (2001) · Catherine Zeta-Jones (2002) · Renee Zellweger (2003) · Cate Blanchett (2004) · Rachel Weisz (2005) · Jennifer Hudson (2006) · Tilda Swinton (2007) · Penélope Cruz (2008) · Mo'Nique (2009) · Melissa Leo (2010)
Complete list · (1936–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Categories:- Academy Awards
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