The worst movies that 77 Oscar winners have been in, according to critics

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Jessica Chastain, won an Oscar for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" in 2022.
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  • Not every movie can go a archetype — just enquire these 77 Oscar winners.
  • Although they've turned in some iconic performances, they've as well starred in some flops.
  • Jessica Chastain and George Clooney are among actors whose movies earned a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Volition Smith — "Later Earth" (2013)

"Later Earth."
Sony Pictures Releasing

Newly minted Oscar winner Smith has had some loftier highs and low lows, cinematically speaking. His worst-reviewed picture is a personal i for him — it's 2013's "After World," in which he co-starred with his son Jaden Smith. They played begetter-and-son duo, Cypher and Kitai Rage, who must work together to survive on a post-apocalyptic Earth.

Near 10 years later, he won an Oscar for portraying Richard Williams, the father of lawn tennis GOATs Serena and Venus, in "King Richard."

Critic Score: 12%

Jessica Chastain — "Stolen" (2007)

"Stolen."
IFC Films

Chastain finally won an Oscar ten years subsequently her get-go nomination for "The Assist" in 2012. She took home the best actress prize for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," in which she totally transformed to play evangelical Christian celebrity Tammy Faye Bakker.

Dorsum in 2009, though, Chastain appeared in a career low, the motion-picture show "Stolen" alongside Jon Hamm and Josh Lucas. The film tells the story of two fathers connected by the kidnappings of their sons 50 years apart.

Critic Score: 0%

Sam Rockwell — "Gentlemen Broncos" (2009)

"Gentlemen Broncos."
Play tricks Searchlight Pictures

Rockwell's been nominated for 2 Oscars, winning one for his functioning in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" in 2018. The side by side yr he was nominated over again for "Vice."

Nigh a decade prior, he appeared in "Gentlemen Broncos," a picture show most a would-be author named Benjamin Purvis, who is trying to write a book called "Yeast Lords." Rockwell plays the main character of the volume, Bronco (later Brutus).

Critic Score:20%

Marisa Tomei — "The Watcher" (2000)

"The Watcher."
Universal Pictures

In total, Tomei has been nominated at the Academy Awards 3 times, winning one in 1993 for "My Cousin Vinny." Her other 2 nominations were for 2001's "In the Bedchamber" and 2008's "The Wrestler."

Right around the fourth dimension of her second nomination, Tomei appeared in the worst-reviewed film of her career, "The Watcher," in which she plays the therapist of hating FBI agent Joel Campbell, played past James Spader.

Critic Score:xi%

Daniel Kaluuya — "Chatroom" (2010)

Hannah Murray, Daniel Kaluuya, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Beard, and Imogen Poots in "Chatroom."
Revolver Entertainment

Kaluuya scored his first Oscar win in 2021 for his performance as Fred Hampton in "Judas and the Blackness Messiah." He was also nominated for "Exit."

But back in 2010, fresh off his run on "Skins," Kaluuya appeared in the internet thriller "Chatroom," which followed a group of teens who meet online and encourage each other'southward bad beliefs.

Critic Score:9%

Rachel Weisz — "Dream House" (2011)

"Dream House."
Universal Pictures

Weisz won her offset (and only, and then far) Oscar for 2006's "The Constant Gardener." She was nominated again for 2018's "The Favourite."

Even if her worst film is the 2011 psychological thriller "Dream Firm," information technology couldn't have been that bad to shoot — on set, she reconnected with Daniel Craig, which led to their eventual marriage and the nativity of their daughter in 2018.

Critic Score: 6%

Taika Waititi — "Green Lantern" (2011)

"Green Lantern."
Warner Bros. Pictures

Waititi might be all-time known as a writer and director — in fact, his Oscar win was for the screenplay of his film "Jojo Rabbit" in 2020 — but he has acted in a fair few films ... including the maligned comic book film "Light-green Lantern," in which he plays an engineer and co-worker of Hal Hashemite kingdom of jordan, played by Ryan Reynolds.

Critic Score: 26%

Hilary Swank — "New Year'due south Eve" (2011)

"New year's day's Eve."
Warner Bros. Pictures

Swank has won two Academy Awards: i for her role in "Boys Don't Cry" in 2000 and 1 for her role in "Million Dollar Infant" in 2005.

Six years after her second win, Swank appeared in "New Year'due south Eve," Garry Marshall's second album motion picture based on a holiday after 2010'due south "Valentine'south Twenty-four hour period." Swank plays Claire, the vice president of the Times Foursquare Alliance, who has to deal with many mishaps regarding the ball driblet. Her father, played by Robert De Niro, is as well in the hospital while she'due south dealing with these crises.

Critic Score:vii%

Adrien Brody — "Air Strike" (2018)

"Air Strike."
Blue Box International; People's republic of china Motion picture Group

Brody, one of the more famous "victims" of the Oscars expletive, has struggled to announced in many good films after his win in 2003 for "The Pianist."

Instance in point: "Air Strike," a 2018 Chinese state of war film that focuses on the Japanese bombing of Chongqing during World State of war II. Brody plays a military doctor named Steve in a "special appearance."

Critic Score:0%

Olivia Colman — "Pudsey the Domestic dog: The Pic" (2014)

Olivia Colman in 2014.
David M. Benett/Getty Images

Colman won her first Oscar in 2019 for "The Favourite," was nominated again for her role in "The Father," and may very well received her third nom for "The Lost Girl" in 2022.

Merely five years prior, she voiced a equus caballus in "Pudsey the Canis familiaris: The Movie," a moving picture based on Pudsey, the canine half of the "Britain's Got Talent" winners, Ashleigh and Pudsey.

Critic Score: 0%

Russell Crowe — "Winter's Tale" (2014)

"Winter's Tale."
Warner Bros. Pictures

Crowe was nominated for an Oscar iii years in a row, from 2000 to 2002, winning one for his operation in "Gladiator" equally Maximus in 2001.

However, in 2014, he appeared in critically panned "Wintertime's Tale," based on the '80s novel of the aforementioned proper noun. The pic follows Peter (Colin Farrell), a man who was abased in New York Urban center as a baby and subsequently raised by a demon, Pearly, played past Crowe.

Critic Score: 13%

Helen Mirren — "Berlin, I Love You" (2019)

"Berlin, I Beloved You."
Saban Films

Mirren has one Academy Award win from four nominations, for her role as Queen Elizabeth 2 in "The Queen."

Her worst-reviewed moving-picture show is 2018'southward "Berlin, I Beloved Y'all," part of Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Beloved" serial. The film is made up of different segments, each with a dissimilar manager, about dissimilar people in Berlin. Mirren plays a character named Margaret.

Critic Score: xi%

JK Simmons — "An Invisible Sign" (2010)

J.K. Simmons on location for "An Invisible Sign."
Bobby Banking company/WireImage/Getty Images

Simmons' offset and only Oscar to date is for his performance in 2014's "Whiplash."

Simply iv years earlier, he appeared in "An Invisible Sign," based on the 2001 Aimee Bender novel. Simmons plays Mr. Jones, a young man teacher at the schoolhouse main graphic symbol Mona (Jessica Alba) gets a task at.

Critic Score: 0%

Frances McDormand — "Æon Flux" (2005)

"Æon Flux."
Paramount Pictures.

McDormand has iii Oscars on her resume, for "Fargo," "Iii Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,"  and "Nomadland," with vi nominations total — although that's probable to alter, as she's potentially getting nominated for "The Tragedy of Macbeth"

The same year she earned her fourth nomination for "North Land," she besides appeared in "Æon Flux," a dystopian sci-fi thriller near an underground society trying to overthrow their dictatorial leaders. McDormand plays the Handler, the leader of the society, but she may not exist what she seems.

Critic Score:9%

Mark Rylance — "Days and Nights" (2013)

"Days and Nights."
IFC Films

Rylance won an Oscar on his commencement try, for 2015'due south "Bridge of Spies." Just 2 years prior, though, he appeared in "Days and Nights," a picture show based on Anton Chekhov'southward play "The Seagull." Rylance plays Stephen, an ornithologist and husband to Alex (Katie Holmes), the daughter of the film's main character, movie star Elizabeth (Allison Janney).

Critic Score:0%

Allison Janney — "A G Words" (2012)

"A Thousand Words."
Paramount Pictures

Janney won her first Academy Honor in 2018 for "I, Tonya." On the flip side, she'southward appeared in not one, only two 0% films on Rotten Tomatoes. Beginning, she appeared in 2012 comedy "A One thousand Words," which focuses on Eddie Murphy's graphic symbol Aaron losing his ability to speak freely — every word brought him closer to death. Janney plays a grapheme named Samantha.

Critic Score:0%

And, for a bonus, the next year she appeared in 0% picture show "Days and Nights."

Christoph Waltz — "Tulip Fever" (2017)

"Tulip Fever."
The Weinstein Visitor

Waltz is two-for-two in Oscars, with wins for "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained." In 2017, Waltz starred in 2017'due south historical drama "Tulip Fever," based on the 1999 novel of the same proper name. He played Cornelis Sandvoort, a merchant who commissions a painting of his wife Sophia — but for the painter to autumn in love with Sophia himself.

Critic Score:ten%

Renée Zellweger — "The Bachelor" (1999)

"The Bachelor."
New Line Cinema

Zellweger has earned two Oscars during her career. First, for her role as Ruby in the Civil State of war epic "Cold Mountain" in 2004, and so again in 2020 for her portrayal of Judy Garland in "Judy."

On the flip side, she besides appeared in the 1999 rom-com flop, "The Bachelor" as the ostensible female atomic number 82, Anne.

Critic Score: 8%

Joaquin Phoenix — "Russkies" (1987)

"Russkies."
New Century Vista Pic Visitor

Phoenix earned his first Oscar win in 2020 for his performance in "Joker" as the titular comic book villain. He had been nominated three times prior. In "Russkies," (in which he is credited as Leafage Phoenix), he plays a 12-year-erstwhile Regular army brat named Danny.

Critic Southward core: 14%

Laura Dern — "Grizzly II: Revenge" (1983/2020)

"Grizzly Two: Revenge."
Gravitas Ventures

Dern's 2020 Oscar win for her turn as the ruthless divorce lawyer Nora in "Marriage Story" came after ii previous nominations. That same year, a long-delayed film called "Grizzly II: Revenge" wasfinallyreleased after beingness completed in 1983.

Critic Score: 8%

Brad Pitt — "Cool World" (1992)

"Cool World."
Paramount Pictures

Later decades in Hollywood, Pitt finally won an Oscar in 2020 for his operation in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," in which he played babysitter Cliff Booth. While 2019 was a summit, the nadir of his career has to be his appearance in "Cool World" every bit Frank, a detective transported into a comic book world.

Critic Score: four%

Lupita Nyong'o — "The 355" (2022)

"The 355."
Universal Pictures

Nyong'o earned an Academy Award for her very commencement film, 2013's "12 Years a Slave," in which she played Patsey, a slave who endured particularly horrifying mistreatment and violence from her master, played by Michael Fassbender.

Since so, Nyong'o has proven to have good taste — she's only appeared in two films ruled "rotten" by Rotten Tomatoes ... with the worst movie being 2022's spy thriller "The 355."

Critic Score:25%

Eddie Redmayne — "Hick" (2011)

"Hick."
Phase four Films

Redmayne won his first Oscar for 2015's "The Theory of Everything," in which he played Stephen Hawking, from before his ALS diagnosis and time as a student through when he was honored by the Queen in 1989.

However, the worst film in his career thus far is 2011'southward "Hick," an exceedingly dark film in which he plays a creepy human named Eddie who "falls in love" with a 13-year-old girl while on a road trip.

Critic Score: 5%

Natalie Portman — "Planetarium" (2016)

"Planetarium."
Advertising Vitam Distribution

Portman has been nominated for three Oscars, winning i for her performance in "Black Swan" as Nina, a ballerina who is slowly losing her grip on reality.

In 2016, the same year she was nominated for her third Oscar for playing Jackie Kennedy in "Jackie," she also starred in the French film "Planetarium" equally Laura, a séance host-turned-actress.

Critic Score:xvi%

Colin Firth — "The Accidental Hubby" (2008)

"The Adventitious Husband."
Yari Film Group

Firth received an Oscar for his role as Rex George in 2010'due south "The King'southward Spoken language," which focused on the Rex's efforts to conquer his stutter in club to give a spoken language to the British public.

But only 3 years prior, Firth appeared in the most critically disliked film of his career, "The Accidental Husband," in which he plays the prim and proper Richard, contrary the film's titular accidental husband, Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Critic Score: 6%

Charlize Theron — "The Concluding Face" (2016)

"The Last Face."
Saban Films

Theron won an Oscar for her breakthrough role in "Monster," a 2003 flick most the existent-life serial killer and sex worker Aileen Wuornos (played by Theron), who murdered 7 men.

Over a decade later on, she starred in "The Terminal Confront." She played Wren Petersen, a physician working for a Doctors Without Borders-type of organisation in West Africa.

Critic Score:eight%

Anne Hathaway — "The Last Matter He Wanted" (2020)

"The Last Thing He Wanted."
Netflix

Hathaway, who won All-time Supporting Actress for her function as Fantine in "Les Misérables," plays a journalist who becomes an arms dealer named Elena McMahon in "The Last Affair He Wanted," which premiered at the Sundance Moving-picture show Festival in 2020.

Critic Score: v%

Leonardo DiCaprio — "Critters iii" (1991)

"Critters 3."
New Line Dwelling Video

DiCaprio finally won his Oscar for his role as Hugh Drinking glass in "The Revenant." In "Critters 3," he plays the main grapheme's piddling brother, Josh. It's actually his film debut!

Critic Score: 0%

For a bonus, DiCaprio besidesproduceda film that has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, the 2018 horror fim "Delirium," starring Topher Grace.

Meryl Streep — "Lions for Lambs" (2007)

"Lions for Lambs."
MGM Distribution Co.

Streep's 3 Oscars came from her roles as Joanna Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer," Sophie in "Sophie'due south Choice," and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady." In "Lions for Lambs," Streep plays a TV journalist who is asked to spout positive propaganda about the war in Transitional islamic state of afghanistan.

Critic Score: 27%

Jared Leto — "Basil" (1998)

"Basil."
Buena Vista International

Leto played a trans woman named Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club," which earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Player. Seventeen years prior, he starred in "Basil," based on the 1852 novel of the same proper name, equally the titular character.

Critic Score: 0%

Viola Davis —"The Architect" (2006)

"The Architect."
Magnolia Pictures

Davis won her first Oscar after three nominations for her part as Rosa Lee Maxson in "Fences." She was nominated yet again in 2021 for her role in "Ma Rainey's Blackness Bottom."

 In "The Architect," she plays an activist, Tonya, who decides to get against the high-powered architect who designed the public housing she lives in.

Critic Score: 11%

Mahershala Ali — "Supremacy" (2015)

"Supremacy."
Well Go United states Entertainment

Ali has won two Oscars. Get-go, for his role equally father effigy and drug dealer Juan in "Moonlight," and and then for his role as real-life musician, Dr. Don Shirley, in "Dark-green Volume."

In "Supremacy," Ali has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it part as a cop named Deputy Rivers.

Critic Score: 27%

Jennifer Lawrence — "House at the End of the Street" (2012)

"House at the Stop of the Street."
Relativity Media

Lawrence won for her role of a young bipolar widow named Tiffany in "Silver Linings Playbook." In "House at the End of the Street," Lawrence plays the "final girl" Elissa, who is terrorized by her side by side-door neighbor.

Critic Score: thirteen%

Marlon Brando — "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" (1992)

"Christopher Columbus: The Discovery."
Warner Bros.

Brando, one of the greatest actors of all time, won two Oscars in his career. Kickoff, for his part as Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront," and then for his iconic role as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather."

They can't all be winners though, as evidenced by "Christopher Columbus," in which Brando played the Spanish friar and first thousand inquisitor, Tomás de Torquemada.

Critic Score: seven%

Regina Rex — "A Cinderella Story" (2004)

"A Cinderella Story."
Warner Bros. Pictures

Male monarch garnered her first Oscar in 2019 for her role in "If Beale Street Could Talk," as Sharon Rivers.

In "A Cinderella Story," she played lovable waitress/"fairy godmother," Rhonda.

Critic Score: 12%

Matt Damon — "Suburbicon" (2017)

"Suburbicon."
Paramount Pictures

Damon, aslope Ben Affleck, won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for "Good Will Hunting," which he as well starred in as Volition Hunting.

His worst picture show, on the other paw, was 2017's "Suburbicon," written and directed by his friend George Clooney. Damon plays Gardner Lodge, the patriarch of a "seemingly normal family" inside a '50s suburb when their lives become upended by a home invasion.

Critic Score: 28%

Damon also has a 0% under his belt for producing the 2015 comedy "The Leisure Grade."

Patricia Arquette — "Holy Matrimony" (1994)

"Holy Matrimony."
Buena Vista Pictures

Arquette won Best Supporting Actress for her part as Olivia in "Boyhood," which was shot over the grade of 12 years. In "Holy Marriage," directed by Leonard Nimoy, a 26-year-old Arquette stars equally Havana, a petty criminal who is forced to marry the kid brother of her boyfriend, after her fellow is killed in a machine crash.

Critic Score: 0%

Sidney Poitier — "The Jackal" (1997)

"The Jackal."
Universal Pictures

Poitier, who died in January 2022, became the first Blackness histrion to win an Oscar when he won for his performance in "Lilies in the Field," as Homer Smith, in 1964. Over 30 years later on, he appeared in "The Jackal," a Bruce Willis-led action thriller, as FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston.

Critic Score:23%

Tilda Swinton — "The Beach" (2000)

"The Embankment."
20th Century Trick

Swinton earned an Oscar for her role equally Karen Crowder, a lawyer on the verge of a mental breakdown, in "Michael Clayton." In "The Embankment," she plays Sal, the enigmatic leader of a beach community.

Critic Score:20%

Rami Malek — "Dolitle" (2020)

"Dolittle."
Universal Pictures

One year afterwards Malek won an Oscar for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody," Malek appeared in "Dolittle," a picture in which he voices Chee-Chee, a shy gorilla.

Critic Score: fourteen%

Angelina Jolie — "Original Sin" (2001)

"Original Sin."
MGM Distribution Co.

Jolie burst onto the scene with her Oscar-winning performance as Lisa in "Girl, Interrupted." Ii years later, she starred in "Original Sin" as Julia Russell, opposite Antonio Banderas.

Critic Score:12%

Gary Oldman — "Killers Anonymous" (2019)

"Killers Anonymous."
Lionsgate

Just a year after his first Oscar win for his operation equally Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hr," Oldman starred in "Killers Anonymous," every bit a hit-man only called The Man, who joins a support grouping for killers. Merely, two years after this career depression, he in one case again was nominated for his performance in "Mank."

Critic Score:0%

Cate Blanchett — "The Monuments Men" (2014)

"The Monuments Men."
Sony Pictures Releasing/20th Century Fox

Blanchett has won twice: First, for her office as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator" and second, for her Jasmine Francis in "Blue Jasmine."

All the same, the worst film in her career was 2014's "The Monuments Men," in which she played Claire Simone, loosely based on French art historian Rose Valland.

Critic Score:30%

Matthew McConaughey — "Surfer, Dude" (2008)

"Surfer, Dude."
Anchor Bay Entertainment

The "McConaissance" began with McConaughey'south Oscar-winning performance every bit Ron Woodroof in "Dallas Buyers Club." "Surfer, Dude" falls squarelybeforeMcConaughey'due south career experienced a revival.

In "Surfer, Dude," he plays Steve Addington, a surfer who experiences an existential crisis.

Critic Score:0%

Whoopi Goldberg — "Theodore Rex" (1995)

"Theodore Rex."
New Line Movie theater

Goldberg won for her office in "Ghost" as medium Oda Mae Brown. Five years afterward, she appeared in "Theodore Male monarch," equally a detective named Katie Coltrane who works with dinosaurs. At the fourth dimension, it was the "most expensive straight to video flop."

Critic Score:0%

Daniel Solar day-Lewis — "Nine" (2009)

"9."
The Weinstein Company

Day-Lewis is extremely selective with the movies he chooses, and so information technology's no surprise that "Ix" isn't every bit widely panned as some other films on this listing. In it, he plays director Guido Contini, based on Federico Fellini.

The now-retired thespian has won iii Oscars. Beginning, for his office as Christy Brown, a man with cognitive palsy, in "My Left Foot," for his office equally silverish prospector Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood," and as the 16th president of the United states in "Lincoln."

Critic Score:39%

Anjelica Huston — "Material Girls" (2006)

"Textile Girls."
MGM Distribution Co.

Huston won in 1986 for her role as Maerose Prizzi in "Prizzi's Accolade," which was directed by her father John Huston, and co-starred her longtime love, Jack Nicholson.

In 2006, she played a makeup mogul named Fabiella Du Mont in "Material Girls."

Critic Score:4%

Jeff Bridges — "eight Million Means to Die" (1986)

"viii 1000000 Ways to Dice."
PSO International/TriStar Pictures

Bridges won an Oscar for his performance in "Crazy Heart" every bit an aging country star named Otis "Bad" Blake. Merely decades prior, he starred in "eight Million Means to Dice" as Scudder, an alcoholic detective.

Critic Score: 0%

Goldie Hawn — "Town & Country" (2001)

"Town & Land."
New Line Picture palace

Hawn won her Oscar for 1969's "Cactus Bloom," in which she played Toni, a 21-year-onetime girlfriend of a dentist, played by Walter Matthau. In "Boondocks & State," Hawn plays a woman named Mona, whose husband is cheating on her with another man.

Critic Score: xiii%

Wood Whitaker — "Battleground Earth" (2000)

"Battlefield Earth."
Warner Bros. Pictures

Whitaker garnered an Oscar for his role as real-life Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Final King of Scotland." Six years prior, he starred in "Battlefield Earth" as humanoid alien Ker.

Critic Score: 3%

Sandra Bullock — "Speed 2: Cruise Command" (1997)

"Speed ii: Cruise Command."
20th Century Pull a fast one on

Bullock portrayed Leigh Anne Tuohy, the adoptive female parent of professional football player Michael Oher, in "The Blind Side," earning her an Oscar. In "Speed 2," she reprises her role as Annie Porter from the outset "Speed" film, a civilian who frequently finds herself in loftier-stress situations.

Critic Score: 4%

Sean Penn — "Crackers" (1984)

"Crackers."
Universal Pictures

Penn has earned ii Oscars in his career, in one case as Jimmy Markum in "Mystic River," and again equally Harvey Milk in "Milk."

In "Crackers," Penn plays an amateur musician named Dillard.

Critic Score: 0%

Kate Winslet — "Movie 43" (2013)

"Movie 43."
Relativity Media

Winslet played a former Nazi guard named Hanna in "The Reader," and her operation earned her an Oscar. In "Moving-picture show 43," Winslet plays Beth, who goes on a blind date with Davis, played by Hugh Jackman.

Critic Score: 4%

Jamie Foxx — "Stealth" (2005)

"Stealth."
Columbia Pictures

While Foxx earned an Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in "Ray," not all of his films have been hits. In "Stealth," Foxx plays Navy Lieutenant Henry Purcell.

Critic Score: 12%

Reese Witherspoon — "Hot Pursuit" (2015)

"Hot Pursuit."
Warner Bros. Pictures

Witherspoon won an Oscar for her part in "Walk the Line" as June Carter Cash. In "Hot Pursuit," she plays Officeholder Rose Cooper, a cop tasked with protecting Sofia Vergara'due south Daniella Riva.

Critic Score: eight%

Paul Newman — "When Time Ran Out..." (1980)

"When Fourth dimension Ran Out..."
Warner Bros.

Newman is i of the most dearest actors in American history, though information technology took decades for him to finally win an Oscar for his part every bit "Fast" Eddie Felson in 1986'due south "The Color of Money."

Six years prior to the win, he starred in universally panned "When Time Ran Out..." equally an oil rigger named Hank Anderson.

Critic Score: 0%

Nicole Kidman — "Grace of Monaco" (2014)

"Grace of Monaco."
The Weinstein Visitor

Kidman earned an Oscar for "The Hours," in which she played real-life writer Virginia Woolf, and she very easily could win her second for playing Lucille Ball in "Being the Ricardos."

In "Grace of Monaco," she plays the real-life first American princess, Grace Kelly.

Critic Score:nine%

Al Pacino — "Jack and Jill" (2011)

"Jack and Jill."
Sony Pictures Releasing

Subsequently decades of iconic performances, Pacino won his Oscar for 1992'due south "Scent of a Woman," in which he plays Frank Slade, a blind alcoholic who Chris O'Donnell's character Charlie is tasked with taking care of.

In "Jack and Jill," Pacino plays a fictionalized version of himself who has a giant crush on Jill, played by Adam Sandler.

Critic Score: 3%

Halle Berry — "Dark Tide" (2012)

"Night Tide."
Wrekin Hill Entertainment

Berry is perhaps one of the most famous declared victims of the "Oscar'southward expletive." After winning for her portrayal of Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball," Berry's career slowed downward.

Instance in point: the 2012 motion-picture show "Dark Tide," in which Berry plays Katie Mathieson, the shark expert afraid to get dorsum in the water.

However, her career is definitely picking dorsum up again with recent films like "Moonfall," "Bruised," and the third "John Wick" film.

Critic Score: 0%

Robert De Niro — "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Directly" (1971)

"The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Direct."
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

De Niro is another highly respected histrion in cinematic history, as evidenced past his ii Oscar wins for "The Godfather Part Ii" as Vito Corleone — making him and Marlon Brando the only two people to win Oscars for the aforementioned role — and for "Raging Bull" as existent-life boxer Jake LaMotta.

But sometimes even De Niro gets a dud, like 1971's "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Directly," in which he plays a budding thief named Mario.

Critic Score: 0%

Susan Sarandon — "Hell and Back" (2015)

Susan Sarandon in 2015.
Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

Sarandon's Oscar win came from her role in "Dead Human Walking," in which she plays a nun, Sister Helen Prejean, who became shut with a expiry row prisoner, Matthew (played by Sean Penn).

In "Hell and Dorsum," an animated film, Sarandon voices Barb, an angel.

Critic Score: 0%

Jack Nicholson — "Homo Problem" (1992)

"Man Trouble."
20th Century Trick

Nicholson has won three Oscars. He won for his role as Randle "Mac" McMurphy in "Ane Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," for Garrett Breedlove in "Terms of Endearment," and for Melvin Udall in "As Expert As It Gets."

In 1992, Nicholson starred in "Human Trouble" as Harry Elation, a man who runs a baby-sit dog service and gets blackmailed into stealing.

Critic Score: 7%

Julia Roberts — "Love, Wedding, Union" (2011)

Julia Roberts.
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Roberts earned an Oscar for "Erin Brockovich," in which she played the titular character, a legal clerk who built a case against Pacific Gas and Electrical Company (PG&E).

In "Love, Wedding, Marriage," which was directed by her friend and frequent co-star Dermot Mulroney, only Roberts' vocalism can be heard as Ava's (played by Mandy Moore) therapist.

Critic Score: 0%

Denzel Washington — "Heart Condition" (1990)

"Heart Condition."
New Line Cinema

Washington won Oscars for his performances as Private Silas Trip in "Glory," and Detective Alonzo Harris in "Preparation Day." He might even take dwelling house No. 3 for "The Tragedy of Macbeth" in 2022.

He also starred in this movie, "Middle Condition," as a lawyer named Napoleon Stone who gets murdered and reappears as a ghost to help his racist former colleague, played by Bob Hoskins.

Critic Score: ten%

Jane Fonda — "Leonard Office six" (1987)

Fonda in 1987.
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Fonda won her first Oscar in 1972 for her role as Bree Daniels in "Klute." She won once more in 1979 for her part in Sally Hyde in "Coming Dwelling house."

She had an uncredited cameo every bit herself in "Leonard Part 6," a spy motion-picture show starring Pecker Cosby.

Critic Score: eight%

Christian Bale — "Helm Corelli's Mandolin" (2001)

"Helm Corelli'due south Mandolin."
Universal Studios

Bale garnered his first Oscar for his role as Dicky Eklund in "The Fighter." Nine years prior, he starred in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" as Madras, a local Greek fisherman.

Critic Score: 28%

Anna Paquin — "Darkness" (2002)

"Darkness."
Filmax International/Dimension Films

Paquin was just a child when she won an Oscar for her role equally Flora McGrath, a kid who interprets for her mute mother, in "The Piano." A decade later, she starred in the horror picture "Darkness," in which she plays a teenager, Regina, living in a possessed house.

Critic Score: 4%

Tom Hanks — "The Circumvolve" (2017)

"The Circle."
STX Films/Europa Corp.

Hanks won Oscars back-to-back for his roles as Andrew Beckett in "Philadelphia" and as Forrest in "Forrest Gump." He also starred in this flop, "The Circle," as the malevolent CEO of the Circle, Eamon Bailey.

Critic Score: 16%

Penélope Cruz — "Waking Upwards in Reno" (2002)

"Waking Upwardly in Reno."
Miramax Films

6 years before she would win an Oscar for her part equally María Elena in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Cruz appeared in "Waking Upwardly in Reno" as Brenda, a loftier-end sex worker.

Critic Score: thirteen%

Nicolas Cage — "G Isle" (2019)

"One thousand Island."
Screen Media Films

Cage, who has appeared in a few questionable movies over his career, won an Oscar in 1996 for his performance as Ben Sanderson in "Leaving Las Vegas." In 2019, he starred in the film "1000 Isle," as Walter, "a difficult-drinking, biting Vietnam vet." Cage too appeared in the 0% moving picture "Deadfall" in 1993.

Critic Score: 0%

Emma Stone — "Movie 43" (2013)

"Film 43."
Relativity Media

Stone won an Oscar for her role as Mia in "La La Land." In "Film 43," Rock plays Veronica, who accidentally has her conversation with her ex-boyfriend (Kieran Culkin) broadcast to an unabridged grocery store.

Critic Score:four%

George Clooney — "Render of the Killer Tomatoes!" (1988)

"Return of the Killer Tomatoes!"
New World Pictures

Clooney won i Oscar for acting, for his role as Bob Barnes in "Syriana," and one for producing "Argo," which won Best Motion-picture show.

He also starred in "Return of the Killer Tomatoes!" as ladies' human being Matt Stevens.

Critic Score: o%

Gwyneth Paltrow — "Mortdecai" (2015)

"Mortdecai."
Lionsgate

Paltrow scored an Oscar for "Shakespeare in Beloved," in which she plays Shakespeare's love interest, Viola de Lesseps.

In "Mortdecai," Paltrow co-stars with Johnny Depp as the married con-artist couple Johanna and Charlie Mortdecai.

Critic Score: 12%

Morgan Freeman — "The Poison Rose" (2019)

"The Toxicant Rose."
Lionsgate

Freeman plays a coach's banana, Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, in "Million Dollar Baby," which earned him an Oscar in 2005.

In "The Poison Rose," he plays Md, a nightclub owner that has beefiness with a PI played past John Travolta.

Technically, Freeman has appeared in3films with a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes ("The Toxicant Rose," "The Contract," and "That Was Then ... This Is Now"), but "Poison Rose" is the virtually recent.

Critic Score: 0%

Sally Field — "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979)

"Beyond the Poseidon Take a chance."
Warner Bros.

Field has won two Oscars in her career. First, for playing the titular role in "Norma Rae," and then for her part as Edna Spalding in "Places in the Middle."

In "Across the Poseidon Adventure," Field plays a passenger, Celeste Whitman, aboard a tugboat that's set to salvage the sunken Poseidon.

Critic Score: 0%

Benicio Del Toro — "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" (1992)

"Christopher Columbus: The Discovery."
Warner Bros.

Del Toro'south lone Oscar win thus far is for his performance in "Traffic" equally Mexican police force officer Javier Rodriguez.

In "Christopher Columbus," Del Toro plays Alvaro Harana, the son of one of Columbus' friends.

Critic Score: 7%

Brie Larson — "Call up the Daze" (2008)

Brie Larson at the "Call up the Daze" premiere.
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Larson won an Oscar for her role in "Room" as kidnapping victim Joy (or Ma) who is forced to enhance her son inside a single room by her captors.

One of her first roles was in "Recollect the Shock" equally Angie, the younger sister of the principal character, Julia.

Critic Score: 0%

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