10 Actors Whose Career Has BOMBED After Their Biggest Hit

Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s career is perhaps the ultimate cautionary tale of how an actor with all the talent in the world can struggle post-Oscar.

Gooding scooped the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1997 for his iconic performance in Jerry Maguire, yet following an appearance in As Good as It Gets later that year, his career totally fell off a cliff.

It would be another 18 movies and 11 years before Gooding appeared in a film which succeeded both critically and commercially - Ridley Scott's American Gangster.

In the meantime, his filmography became littered with duds like A Murder of Crows, Instinct, Chill Factor, Boat Trip, Home on the Range, and Shadowboxer, while his financially successful films were also largely panned by critics, including Pearl Harbour, Rat Race, Snow Dogs, Norbit, and Daddy Day Camp.

In the ultimate demonstration of how thoroughly his career flew off the rails, in 2003 he received a Worst Actor Razzie nomination for his combined work in three movies - Boat Trip, The Fighting Temptations, and Radio. Oof.

Though his career upticked briefly in 2016 when he received a Best Actor Emmy nomination for his performance as O.J. Simpson in American Crime Story, his late-career period is largely defined by forgettable dramatic thrillers which typically forego cinemas entirely.