10 Actors Whose Careers TANKED After Winning Oscars

10. Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Let's kick things off with perhaps the single most infamous example of a feted actor whose career hit the toilet bowl soon thereafter. 

After making memorable appearances in both Boyz in the Hood and A Few Good Men, Cuba Gooding, Jr. completed his ascent to Hollywood superstardom when he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his unforgettable performance as Rod Tidwell in 1996's Jerry Maguire.

Thanks to Gooding, "Show me the money!" instantly became a global catchphrase, and though he appeared in As Good as It Gets the next year, afterwards quality offers swiftly stopped coming in.

Gooding went an entire decade without appearing in a critically acclaimed film, with panned duds like A Murder of Crows, Chill Factor, Pearl Harbor, Snow Dogs, and Shadowboxer clogging up his filmography.

Worthy projects have been shockingly few and far between ever since the Oscar win, with Gooding only receiving serious awards attention for his performance as O.J. Simpson in the TV series American Crime Story.

The back-end of Gooding's output has been defined largely by straight-to-video action films you've likely never heard of, and the fact that 30 women have accused him of unwanted sexual touching in recent years has likely done nothing to aid his prospects.