10 Actors Who Suffered The Most After Winning An Oscar

4. Kim Basinger

LA Confidential is full of great performances - it is, after all, the film that basically gave us Russell Crowe - but Kim Basinger's Lynn Bracken was the real stand-out. Which is why she won an Oscar for it and which is why we should have then got a period of her rising to become one of the most prominent leading ladies in Hollywood.

Remember that? Well, no, you wouldn't, because it didn't happen. Instead, Basinger went on holiday from film-making for three years, letting everyone forget about the goodwill she'd built with the win and then making I Dreamed Of Africa. A truly awful, dull film. She's not awful in it, but the film is woefully bad.

After the break and then the pretty appalling comeback, it's testament to how her profile changed that her biggest roles have probably been in two Fifty Shades sequels. And they're unwatchable. She just let relevance slip out of her grip.