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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] The 2015 study found 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]

References

  1. ^ Ranker, Donn Saylor. "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. ISSN 1047-7039.
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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