The Oscar Curse
We had not heard of the Oscar Curse but there was a rumored theory that women who win the Best Actress Academy Award are doomed to divorce.
Now according to an article in the Huffington Post, researchers at the University of Toronto have released a study that found the effect of the “Oscar Curse” has the data to back it up.
Researchers compared actresses who won Best Actress from 1936 to 2010 to those who were nominated but didn't win, and found that winners were, indeed, 1.68 times as likely to divorce as non-winners. Of the 265 married nominees, 159 eventually divorced--a whopping 60 percent. The same was not true for men--there was no significant difference in divorce risk for Best Actor winners and Best Actor nominees.
Here are a few notable names who were plagued by this curse: Jane Wyman, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Helen Hunt, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Hilary Swank, and Sandra Bullock.
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