10 Actors Who Suffered Career Meltdowns After Winning Oscars

3. Adrien Brody

When he nabbed the Academy Award for Best Oscar back in 2002, Adrien Brody was the youngest male actor to have ever done so at just 27. It was a deserved and throughly brilliant achievement. In the past 13 years, then, Brody should have carved out a sublime and impressive career of notable motion pictures in which he allowed himself to grow and transform and evolve as an actor. But whilst that should have happened - emphasis on "should" - it plainly didn't. After he won for The Pianist, Brody pretty much decided to turn his career around. Goodbye serious acting, hello... action movies? Yes, after The Pianist, Brody tried his hand at playing action man: he was cast as the hero in Peter Pan's King Kong, and later as a sort of gun-totin' badass in Predator sequel Predators. Whilst he was fine in both roles, though, they weren't particularly meaty or memorable roles. With "Action Brody" out of his system, though, surely it was time to get things back on track with another mind-blowing role? Nope. Brody's career took a nosedive to such an extent that he relegated himself to mere cameos and half-assed appearances in movies nobody has since heard of. The worst came, of course, when he agreed to be in a "film" called InAPPropriate Comedy directed by the guy from the SlapChop adverts. Really. That happened. Adrien Brody starred in a movie with that level of pun in its title. WTF?