10 Actors Who Suffered The Most After Winning An Oscar

3. Adrien Brody

Before 2002, Adrien Brody was an interesting rising star who'd been great in the likes of Summer Of Sam and Harrison's Flowers. He arguably got the lead role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist because he wasn't very well known and as a result became the youngest person to ever receive the Best Actor Oscar at just 27. That sort of thing deserves a second plaque.

And what do you do when you've been given that very specific level of praise? Well, for Brody, the plan was clear - all he had to do to capitalise on his success was lose any sort of clue about what sort of actor he was supposed to be. He made King Kong, The Brother Darjeeling, Splice, Predators and while there were high points - usually the quirkier projects - it felt like he was just trying outfits on and never quite settling.

He never became the A class leading man he should have and his low point came starring in a "comedy" with Lindsay Lohan and Rob Schneider called InAPPropriate Comedy, ironically. He's still messing about now, with his great turn in Peaky Blinders book-ending by crime tosh Bullet Head and World War II Bruce Willis drama The Bombing, which I guarantee you only discovered the existence of about ten words ago in this very sentence.