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A little more concise clarification: Rainer's Curse was more specifically attributed to the fact that she won 2 CONSECUTIVE Oscars; despite Spencer Tracy winning the same soon after, her parts were infinitesimal.
 
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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, fiancé, or husband cheat on her or divorce her soon after.<ref>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/oscar_love_curse_iD9TNporBvaKlWwdRowaOK</ref><ref>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/03/the_oscar_love_curse_is_sandra.html</ref><ref>http://movies.about.com/od/movienews/tp/best-actress-curse.htm</ref><ref>http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/a-line/curse-of-the-best-actress-oscar/408?nc</ref> It has also been applied to the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]].


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, fiancé, or husband cheat on her or divorce her soon after.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranker|first=Donn Saylor|title=The best actress curse: All the women who experienced calamities after winning an Oscar|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-rnkr-best-actress-curse-oscars-20200130-4hfx5gdvq5hxfmnkl7lleangai-photogallery.html|access-date=2021-06-18|website=chicagotribune.com|date=January 30, 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Is There Really An Oscar Love Curse?|url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/is-there-really-an-oscar-love-curse/ar-BB1fYBhI|access-date=2021-06-18|website=www.msn.com}}</ref> It has also been applied to the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] and to the [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] winner.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oscar love curse: Male actors' divorce rates up after nomination, win {{!}} Cornell Chronicle|url=https://news.cornell.edu/media-relations/tip-sheets/oscar-love-curse-male-actors-divorce-rates-after-nomination-win|access-date=2021-06-18|website=news.cornell.edu|language=en}}</ref> A 2015 study found that divorce rates of female Oscar winners and nominees did not increase, but that divorce rates of male Oscar winners and nominees did.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Jensen|first1=Michael|last2=Kim|first2=Heeyon|date=February 2015|title=The Real Oscar Curse: The Negative Consequences of Positive Status Shifts|url=http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2014.0951|journal=[[Organization Science (journal)|Organization Science]]|language=en|volume=26|issue=1|pages=1–21|doi=10.1287/orsc.2014.0951|issn=1047-7039|hdl=1813/72218|s2cid=25862222|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
In their paper published in ''[[Organization Science (journal)|Organization Science]]'', Michael Jensen and Heeyon Kim use the "Oscar Curse" to examine the negative consequences of upward mobility following a sudden positive status shift. With an empirical study, the authors find "Oscar nominations/wins have positive professional consequences for male and female actors but more enduring negative personal consequences for male actors, thus emphasizing an important conundrum for male actors: Oscar nominations/wins can help a career but can also ruin a marriage."<ref>Michael Jensen and Heeyon Kim (2015) "The Real Oscar Curse: The Negative Consequences of Positive Status Shifts" published in ''[[Organization Science (journal)]]'' {{DOI|10.1287/orsc.2014.0951}}</ref>


Another version of an "Oscar curse" is that if an individual wins either a Best Actor/Actress or [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]/Actress award, their career will collapse shortly thereafter.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Motulsky|first=Harvey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLDWAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Oscar+curse%22&pg=PA497|title=Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-994664-8|pages=497|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Malone|first=Aubrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CcbYDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Oscar+curse%22&pg=PA32|title=And the Loser is: A History of Oscar Oversights [2nd Edition]|date=2020-10-06|publisher=Vernon Press|isbn=978-1-62273-969-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ruiz|first=Michelle|date=2016-02-23|title=Is the "Oscar Curse" Real?|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/oscars-2016-oscar-curse-women-hollywood|access-date=2021-06-18|website=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Sources indicate that the originator of the superstition was [[Luise Rainer]], who after [[List of Academy Award records#Most Consecutive Awards in Each Category|winning two ''consecutive'' Oscars]] for Best Actress in the 1930s, had fewer roles in film afterwards, which she apparently blamed on receiving the awards. She relocated back to Europe shortly thereafter.<ref>{{Cite web|last=PTI|date=2015-02-22|title=The 'Oscar curse' is just a myth, finds study|url=https://www.livemint.com/Consumer/GufQjpKZri9cfjtMWEIjIJ/Oscar-curse-is-a-myth-study.html|access-date=2021-06-21|website=mint|language=en}}</ref> Despite this, [[Spencer Tracy]] his second consecutive Oscar for Best Actor the following year, yet did not undergo similar struggles.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} The 2015 study also affirmed the opposite to be true: "male and female Oscar winners and Oscar nominees appear in more films following their Oscar experiences than do other actors".<ref name=":0" />
==Occurrences==

===Best Actress===
*[[Janet Gaynor]] (1927/28 ''[[7th Heaven (1927 film)|7th Heaven]]'', ''[[Street Angel (1928 film)|Street Angel]]'', ''[[Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans]]'') and husband Jesse Lydell Peck.
*[[Mary Pickford]] (1928/29 ''[[Coquette (film)|Coquette]]'') and husband [[Douglas Fairbanks]].
*[[Claudette Colbert]] (1934 ''[[It Happened One Night]]'') and husband [[Norman Foster (director)|Norman Foster]].
*[[Bette Davis]] (1935 ''[[Dangerous (1935 film)|Dangerous]]'' and 1938 ''[[Jezebel (1938 film)|Jezebel]]'') and husband Harmon Nelson.
*[[Luise Rainer]] (1936 ''[[The Great Ziegfeld]]'' and 1937 ''[[The Good Earth (film)|The Good Earth]]'') and husband [[Clifford Odets]].
*[[Vivien Leigh]] (1939 ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' & 1951 ''[[A Streetcar named Desire]]'') and husbands Herbert Leigh Holman & [[Laurence Olivier]].
*[[Ginger Rogers]] (1940 ''[[Kitty Foyle (film)|Kitty Foyle]]'') and husband [[Lew Ayres]].
*[[Joan Fontaine]] (1941 ''[[Suspicion (1941 film)|Suspicion]]'') and husband [[Brian Aherne]].
*[[Greer Garson]] (1942 ''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'') and husband Edward Snelson.
*[[Jennifer Jones]] (1943 ''[[The Song of Bernadette (film)|The Song of Bernadette]]'') and husband [[Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)|Robert Walker]].
*[[Ingrid Bergman]] (1944 ''[[Gaslight (1944 film)|Gaslight]]'' & 1956 ''[[Anastasia (1956 film)|Anastasia]]'') and husbands [[Petter Lindstrom]] & [[Roberto Rossellini]].
*[[Joan Crawford]] (1945 ''[[Mildred Pierce (film)|Mildred Pierce]]'') and husband [[Phillip Terry]].
*[[Olivia de Havilland]] (1946 ''[[To Each His Own (film)|To Each His Own]]'' and 1949 ''[[The Heiress]]'') and husband Marcus Goodrich.
*[[Loretta Young]] (1947 ''[[The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film)|The Farmer's Daughter]]'') and husband Tom Lewis.
*[[Jane Wyman]] (1947 ''[[Johnny Belinda (1948 film)|Johnny Belinda]]'') and husband [[Ronald Reagan]].
*[[Judy Holliday]] (1950 ''[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]'') and husband [[David Oppenheim (clarinetist)|David Oppenheim]].
*[[Elizabeth Taylor]] (1960 ''[[Butterfield 8]]'' and 1966 ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'') and husbands [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]] and [[Richard Burton]].
*[[Patricia Neal]] (1963 ''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]'') and husband [[Roald Dahl]].
*[[Julie Andrews]] (1964 ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'') and husband [[Tony Walton]].
*[[Barbra Streisand]] (1968 ''[[Funny Girl (film)|Funny Girl]]'') and husband [[Elliott Gould]].
*[[Maggie Smith]] (1969 ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]'') and husband [[Robert Stephens]].
*[[Glenda Jackson]] (1970 ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]'' and 1973 ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]'') and husband Roy Hodges.
*[[Jane Fonda]] (1971 ''[[Klute]]'' & 1978 ''[[Coming Home (1978 film)|Coming Home]]'') and husbands [[Roger Vadim]] & [[Tom Hayden]].
*[[Liza Minnelli]] (1972 ''[[Cabaret (musical)|Cabaret]]'') and husband [[Peter Allen (musician)|Peter Allen]].
*[[Louise Fletcher]] (1975 ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'') and husband Jerry Bick.
*[[Faye Dunaway]] (1976 ''[[Network (1976 film)|Network]]'') and husband [[Peter Wolf]].
*[[Sally Field]] (1979 ''[[Norma Rae]]'' & 1984 ''[[Places in the Heart]]'') and partner [[Burt Reynolds]] and husband Alan Greisman.
*[[Kathy Bates]] (1990 ''[[Misery (film)|Misery]]'') and boyfriend-later-husband Tony Campisi.
*[[Emma Thompson]] (1992 ''[[Howards End]]'') and husband [[Kenneth Branagh]].
*[[Jessica Lange]] (1994 ''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]'') and longtime partner [[Sam Shepard]].
*[[Susan Sarandon]] (1995 ''[[Dead Man Walking (film)|Dead Man Walking]]'') and longtime partner [[Tim Robbins]].
*[[Helen Hunt]] (1997 ''[[As Good as It Gets]]'') and boyfriend-later-husband [[Hank Azaria]].
*[[Halle Berry]] (2001 ''[[Monster's Ball]]'') and husband [[Eric Benét]].
*[[Charlize Theron]] (2003 ''[[Monster (2003 film)|Monster]]'') and partner [[Stuart Townsend]].
*[[Hilary Swank]] (1999 ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]'' and 2004 ''[[Million Dollar Baby]]'') and husband [[Chad Lowe]].
*[[Reese Witherspoon]] (2005 ''[[Walk the Line]]'') and husband [[Ryan Phillippe]].
*[[Kate Winslet]] (2008 ''[[The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader]]'') and husband [[Sam Mendes]].
*[[Sandra Bullock]] (2009 ''[[The Blind Side (film)|The Blind Side]]'') and husband [[Jesse James (entrepreneur)|Jesse James]].
*[[Brie Larson]] (2015 ''[[Room (2015 film)|Room]]'') and boyfriend-later-fiancé [[Alex Greenwald]].

===Best Supporting Actress===
*[[Mary Astor]] (1941 ''[[The Great Lie]]'') and husband [[Manuel del Campo]].
*[[Teresa Wright]] (1942 ''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'') and husband [[Niven Busch]].
*[[Anne Baxter]] (1946 ''[[The Razor's Edge]]'') and husband [[John Hodiak]].
*[[Celeste Holm]] (1947 ''[[Gentleman's Agreement]]'') and husband A. Schuyler Dunning.
*[[Gloria Grahame]] (1952 ''[[The Bad and the Beautiful]]'') and husband [[Nicholas Ray]].
*[[Donna Reed]] (1953 ''[[From Here to Eternity]]'') and husband Tony Owen.
*[[Shelley Winters]] (1959 ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'') and husband [[Anthony Franciosa]].
*[[Shirley Jones]] (1960 ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'') and husband [[Jack Cassidy]].
*[[Lila Kedrova]] (1964 ''[[Zorba the Greek (film)|Zorba the Greek]]'') and husband Pierre Valde.
*[[Sandy Dennis]] (1966 ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'') and partner [[Gerry Mulligan]].
*[[Goldie Hawn]] (1969 ''[[Cactus Flower (film)|Cactus Flower]]'') and husband [[Gus Trikonis]].
*[[Cloris Leachman]] (1971 ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'') and husband [[George Englund]].
*[[Ingrid Bergman]] (1974 ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'') and husband [[Lars Schmidt]]
*[[Vanessa Redgrave]] (1977 ''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]'') and partner [[Timothy Dalton]]
*[[Mary Steenburgen]] (1980 ''[[Melvin and Howard]]'') and husband [[Malcolm McDowell]].
*[[Jessica Lange]] (1982 ''[[Tootsie (film)|Tootsie]]'') and partner [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]].
*[[Anjelica Huston]] (1985 ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]'') and boyfriend [[Jack Nicholson]].
*[[Geena Davis]] (1988 ''[[The Accidental Tourist (film)|The Accidental Tourist]]'') and husband [[Jeff Goldblum]].
*[[Kim Basinger]] (1997 ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'') and husband [[Alec Baldwin]].
*[[Angelina Jolie]] (1999 ''[[Girl, Interrupted (film)|Girl, Interrupted]]'') and husband [[Billy Bob Thornton]].
*[[Marcia Gay Harden]] (2000 ''[[Pollock (film)|Pollock]]'') and husband Thaddaeus Scheel.
*[[Rachel Weisz]] (2005 '' [[The Constant Gardener (film)|The Constant Gardener]]'') and longtime partner [[Darren Aronofsky]].
*[[Jennifer Hudson]] (2006 ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]'') and longtime boyfriend James Payton.

==Exceptions==
Some actresses have managed to "break" the curse. On even rarer occasions, actresses (e.g., Maggie Smith) both experience and break the curse.

===Best Actress===
*[[Norma Shearer]] (1929/30 ''[[The Divorcee]]'') and husband [[Irving Thalberg]] were married on September 29, 1927 and remained so until Thalberg's death in 1936.
*[[Helen Hayes]] (1931/32 ''[[The Sin of Madelon Claudet]]'') and husband [[Charles MacArthur]] were married on 1928 and remained so until MacArthur's death in 1956.
*[[Joanne Woodward]] (1957 ''[[The Three Faces of Eve]]'') and husband [[Paul Newman]] were married on January 29, 1958<ref group="note">The 30th Academy Awards were held on March 26, 1958.</ref> and remained so, until Newman's death in 2008.
*[[Susan Hayward]] (1958 ''[[I Want to Live!]]'') and husband Floyd Eaton Chalkley were married on February 8, 1957 and remained so, until Chalkley's death in 1966.
*[[Simone Signoret]] (1959 ''[[Room at the Top (1959 film)|Room at the Top]]'') and husband [[Yves Montand]] were married on December 22, 1951 and remained so, until Signoret's death in 1985.
*[[Sophia Loren]] (1961 ''[[Two Women]]'') and husband [[Carlo Ponti]] were married on September 17, 1957<ref group="note">The 1962 annulment of Loren and Ponti's marriage was for legal, rather than personal reasons. Loren and Ponti were later legitimately married on April 9, 1966.</ref> and remained so, until Ponti's death in 2007.
*[[Anne Bancroft]] (1962 ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'') and husband [[Mel Brooks]] were married in 1964 and remained so, until Bancroft's death in 2005.
*[[Sissy Spacek]] (1980 ''[[Coal Miner's Daughter (film)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]'') and husband Jack Fisk were married in 1974 and remain so to this day.
*[[Meryl Streep]] (1982 ''[[Sophie's Choice (film)|Sophie's Choice]]'' and 2011 ''[[The Iron Lady (film)|The Iron Lady]]'') and husband [[Don Gummer]] were married in 1978 and remain so to this day.
*[[Geraldine Page]] (1985 ''[[The Trip to Bountiful]]'') and husband [[Rip Torn]] were married in 1963 and remained so, until Page's death in 1987.
*[[Jessica Tandy]] (1989 ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'') and husband [[Hume Cronyn]] were married on September 27, 1942 and remained so, until Tandy's death in 1994.
*[[Frances McDormand]] (1996 ''[[Fargo (1996 film)|Fargo]]'' & 2017 ''[[Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri]]'') and husband [[Joel Coen]] were married in 1984 and remain so to this day.
*[[Dame Helen Mirren]] (2006 ''[[The Queen (2006 film)|The Queen]]'') and husband [[Taylor Hackford]] were married in 1997 and remain so to this day.
*[[Marion Cotillard]] (2007 ''[[La Vie en Rose]]'') and husband [[Guillaume Canet]] were married in 2007 and remain so to this day.
*[[Natalie Portman]] (2010 ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]'') and then-fiancé [[Benjamin Millepied]] were married in 2012 and remain so to this day.
*[[Cate Blanchett]] (2013 ''[[Blue Jasmine]]'') and husband Andrew Upton were married in 1997 and remain so to this day.
*[[Julianne Moore]] (2014 ''[[Still Alice]]'') and husband [[Bart Freundlich]] were married in 2003 and remain so to this day.
*[[Olivia Colman]] (2018 ''[[The Favourite]]'') and husband Ed Sinclair were married in 2001 and remain so to this day.

===Best Supporting Actress===
*[[Gale Sondergaard]], the first ever-recipient of the Best Supporting Actress Award (1936 ''[[Anthony Adverse]]'') and husband [[Herbert Biberman]] were married in 1930, and remained so until Biberman's death in 1971.
*[[Katina Paxinou]] (1943 ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'') and husband [[Alexis Minotis]] were married in 1940 and remained so, until Paxinou's death in 1973.
*[[Anne Revere]] (1945 ''[[National Velvet]]'') and husband Samuel Rosen were married in 11 April 1935 and remained so, until Rosen's death in 1984.
*[[Claire Trevor]] (1948 ''[[Key Largo]]'') and husband [[Milton H. Bren]] were married in 1948 and remained so, until Bren's death in 1979.
*[[Kim Hunter]] (1951 ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'') and husband Robert Emmett were married on December 20, 1951 and remained so, until Emmett's death in 2000.
*[[Fay Bainter]] (1938 ''[[Jezebel (1938 film)|Jezebel]]'') and husband Reginald Venable were married in 1921, and remained so, until Venable's death in 1964.
*[[Eva Marie Saint]] (1954 ''[[On the Waterfront]]'') and husband [[Jeffrey Hayden]] were married in 1951 and remained so, until Hayden's death in 2016.
*[[Jo Van Fleet]] (1955 ''[[East of Eden (film)|East of Eden]]'') and husband William Bales were married in 1946 and remained so, until Bales' death in 1990.
*[[Wendy Hiller]] (1958 ''[[Separate Tables (film)|Separate Tables]]'') and husband [[Ronald Gow]] were married in 1937 and remained so, until Gow's death in 1993.
*[[Margaret Rutherford]] (1963 ''[[The V.I.P.s (film)|The V.I.P.s]]'') and husband [[Stringer Davis]] were married in 1945 and remained so, until Rutherford's death in 1972.
*[[Ruth Gordon]] (1968 ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]'') and husband [[Garson Kanin]] were married on December 4, 1942 and remained so, until Gordon's death in 1985.
*[[Eileen Heckart]] (1972 ''[[Butterflies Are Free]]'') and husband John Harrison Yankee Jr. were married on June 26, 1942 and remained so, until Yankee's death in 1997.
*[[Lee Grant]] (1975 ''[[Shampoo]]'') and husband [[Joseph Feury]] were married on 1962 and remain so to this day.
*[[Beatrice Straight]] (1976 ''[[Network (1976 film)|Network]]'') and husband [[Peter Cookson]] were married on June 2, 1949 and remained so, until Cookson's death in 1990.
*[[Maggie Smith]] (1978 ''[[California Suite (film)|California Suite]]'') and husband [[Beverley Cross]] were married on August 23, 1975 and remained so, until Cross's death in 1998.
*[[Meryl Streep]] (1979 ''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]'') and husband [[Don Gummer]] were married in 1978 and remain so to this day.
*[[Dianne Wiest]] (1986 ''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]'' & 1994 ''[[Bullets over Broadway]]'') and partner [[Sam Cohn]] lived together since late 1970s and remain so, until Cohn's death in 2009.
*[[Olympia Dukakis]] (1987 ''[[Moonstruck]]'') and husband [[Louis Zorich]] were married in 1962 and remain so, until Zorich's death in 2018.
*[[Mercedes Ruehl]] (1991 ''[[The Fisher King]]'') and husband [[David Geiser]] were married in the 1970s and remain so, until Geiser's death in 2020.
*[[Judi Dench]] (1998 ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'') and husband [[Michael Williams (actor)|Michael Williams]] were married on February 5, 1971 and remained so, until Williams' death in 2001.
*[[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] (2002 ''[[Chicago (film)]]'') and husband [[Michael Douglas]] were married in 2000 and remain so to this day.
*[[Cate Blanchett]] (2004 ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'') and husband Andrew Upton were married in 1997 and remain so to this day.
*[[Tilda Swinton]] (2007 ''[[Michael Clayton]]'') and partner [[Sandro Kopp]] lived together since 2004 and remain so to this day.
*[[Mo'Nique]] (2009 ''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'') and husband Sidney Hicks were married in 2006 and remain so to this day.
*[[Anne Hathaway]] (2012 ''[[Les Miserables (2012 film)|Les Miserables]]'') and husband Adam Shulman were married in 2012 and remain so to this day.
*[[Viola Davis]] (2016 ''[[Fences (film)|Fences]]'') and husband Julius Tennon were married in 2003 and remain so to this day.


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Nobel Prize effect]]
*[[Academy Award for Best Actress]]
*[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=note}}


==References==
==References==
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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, fiancé, or husband cheat on her or divorce her soon after.[1][2] It has also been applied to the Best Supporting Actress and to the Best Actor winner.[3] A 2015 study found that divorce rates of female Oscar winners and nominees did not increase, but that divorce rates of male Oscar winners and nominees did.[4]

Another version of an "Oscar curse" is that if an individual wins either a Best Actor/Actress or Best Supporting Actor/Actress award, their career will collapse shortly thereafter.[5][6][7] Sources indicate that the originator of the superstition was Luise Rainer, who after winning two consecutive Oscars for Best Actress in the 1930s, had fewer roles in film afterwards, which she apparently blamed on receiving the awards. She relocated back to Europe shortly thereafter.[8] Despite this, Spencer Tracy his second consecutive Oscar for Best Actor the following year, yet did not undergo similar struggles.[citation needed] The 2015 study also affirmed the opposite to be true: "male and female Oscar winners and Oscar nominees appear in more films following their Oscar experiences than do other actors".[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ranker, Donn Saylor (January 30, 2020). "The best actress curse: All the women who experienced calamities after winning an Oscar". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  2. ^ "Is There Really An Oscar Love Curse?". www.msn.com. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "Oscar love curse: Male actors' divorce rates up after nomination, win | Cornell Chronicle". news.cornell.edu. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  4. ^ a b Jensen, Michael; Kim, Heeyon (February 2015). "The Real Oscar Curse: The Negative Consequences of Positive Status Shifts". Organization Science. 26 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1287/orsc.2014.0951. hdl:1813/72218. ISSN 1047-7039. S2CID 25862222.
  5. ^ Motulsky, Harvey (2014). Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking. Oxford University Press. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-19-994664-8.
  6. ^ Malone, Aubrey (October 6, 2020). And the Loser is: A History of Oscar Oversights [2nd Edition]. Vernon Press. ISBN 978-1-62273-969-1.
  7. ^ Ruiz, Michelle (February 23, 2016). "Is the "Oscar Curse" Real?". Vogue. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  8. ^ PTI (February 22, 2015). "The 'Oscar curse' is just a myth, finds study". mint. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
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