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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.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jefflanders/2012/02/01/why-do-successful-woman-fall-victim-to-the-oscar-love-curse/?sh=1218cf73eaf1</ref> 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>
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.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jefflanders/2012/02/01/why-do-successful-woman-fall-victim-to-the-oscar-love-curse/?sh=1218cf73eaf1</ref> 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>

==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]].
*[[Jennifer Lawrence]] (2012 ''[[Silver Linings Playbook]]'') and boyfriend [[Nicholas Hoult]].
*[[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]]'' & 2020 ''[[Nomadland (film)|Nomadland]]'') 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==

Revision as of 12:01, 18 June 2021

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][3] [4][5][6][7] It has also been applied to the Best Supporting Actress and to the Best Actor winner.[8]

In their paper published in 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.[9] 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."[10]

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-rnkr-best-actress-curse-oscars-20200130-4hfx5gdvq5hxfmnkl7lleangai-photogallery.html
  2. ^ https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/it-appears-the-oscar-love-curse-is-real-20180304-p4z2t3.html
  3. ^ https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamiejirak1/every-single-woman-who-was-a-victim-of-the-oscar-love-curse
  4. ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/oscar_love_curse_iD9TNporBvaKlWwdRowaOK
  5. ^ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/03/the_oscar_love_curse_is_sandra.html
  6. ^ http://movies.about.com/od/movienews/tp/best-actress-curse.htm
  7. ^ https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/is-there-really-an-oscar-love-curse/ar-BB1fYBhI
  8. ^ https://news.cornell.edu/media-relations/tip-sheets/oscar-love-curse-male-actors-divorce-rates-after-nomination-win
  9. ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jefflanders/2012/02/01/why-do-successful-woman-fall-victim-to-the-oscar-love-curse/?sh=1218cf73eaf1
  10. ^ 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
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