Oscar love curse explained: What exactly is the Oscar love curse and who has fallen victim?

Oscar season is upon us, and in a number of brief weeks, the winners – and losers – of the 96th Academy Awards might be introduced at a star-studded ceremony at LA’s Dolby Theatre.

So in fact, consideration has turned to the nominees throughout the 23 classes, with particular consideration for the actors and actresses vying for the perfect actor and actress gongs.

However for the ladies vying for the honour of being named greatest actress in a number one position or greatest actress in a supporting position, whereas profitable might mark the head of their careers, it could possibly additionally sound the loss of life knell for his or her private life, because of the so-called ‘Oscar love curse’.

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The ‘Oscar love curse’ refers to a pattern that has seen the winners of the perfect actress or supporting actress classes go on to seemingly endure some kind of private love-life associated disaster, whether or not that be a break-up or divorce.

Based on the UK’s Grazia, which did a deep-dive into the phenomena in 2022, 41 greatest actress winners had skilled the break-up of a long-term relationship shortly after their Oscar win, whereas 23 greatest supporting actress winners had suffered an identical destiny.

The checklist of greatest actress winners who went on to endure heartache consists of Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Hilary Swank, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron, whereas greatest supporting actress winners consists of Jennifer Hudson and Rachel Weisz.

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Sandra Bullock suffered maybe essentially the most public heartbreaks shortly after profitable her Oscar in 2010 for her starring position in The Blind Aspect.

The identical month she collected her Oscar, a number of girls got here ahead to accuse James of dishonest, and their marriage didn’t survive, with Bullock swiftly divorcing her husband of 5 years and happening to finish the adoption of her son Louis alone.

In the meantime, Witherspoon received her Oscar in 2006 for the film Stroll the Line and was seen in what gave the impression to be a heated change with then husband Ryan Phillippe after the ceremony. They introduced their break up simply six months later.

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Then there may be Kate Winslet, who received the Oscar for her position in The Reader in 2009 – the identical 12 months her marriage to Sam Mendes ended.

To be honest, Grazia discovered loads of actresses – 18 to be actual – stayed with their companions, nevertheless it does seem extra headed to Splitsville shortly after their win than stayed collectively.

Nevertheless, in a city the place the divorce charge exceeds even the ‘one-in-three marriages finish in divorce’ statistic we always hear about, the figures are compelling.

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Possibly the opposite halves of essentially the most highly effective girls in Hollywood simply cannot take the highlight being so firmly on their companions

Or perhaps these actresses, on being so closely revered by their friends of their chosen occupation, realise their price and determine to step away from a nasty relationship.

Both means, it seems there may be some correlation between the profession excessive of a lady profitable an Oscar and the non-public low of a relationship break-up.

So who’s prone to falling sufferer to the Oscar love curse this 12 months, if in truth it exists?

The checklist of nominees for greatest actress in a number one position embody Annette Bening, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Hüller, Carey Mulligan and Emma Stone.

In the meantime, the nominees for greatest actress in a supporting position embody Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, America Ferrera, Jodie Foster and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph.

Bening, has been married to reformed Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty since 1992. Mulligan has been married to singer-songwriter Marcus Mumford since 2012, and the couple shares three kids, whereas Stone married comic Dave McCary in 2020, and welcomed a daughter a month later.

Neither Gladstone nor German actress Hüller are identified to be in a relationship proper now.

Of the supporting actresses, Blunt married fellow actor John Krasinski in 2012. The couple shares three kids and gave the impression to be rock strong, till a video clip of them on the purple carpet of this 12 months’s Golden Globes went viral after a TikTok person claimed he informed Blunt he ‘could not wait to divorce’.

Brooks married Dennis Gelin in January 2022, whereas Ferrera has been married to actor-director Ryan Piers Williams since 2011.

Foster married spouse Alexandra Hedison in 2014 whereas Randolph is believed to be single.

With Aussie actress Margot Robbie lacking out on a greatest actress nomination for her title position in Barbie, it might simply show fortunate in preserving her relationship with husband Tom Ackerley, whom she married in 2016.