10 Actors Whose Careers TANKED After Winning Oscars

Mira Sorvino won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1996 for her riotous performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, which should've cemented her as a Hollywood darling with a bevy of coveted roles being offered her way.

Unfortunately the story of Sorvino's career downturn requires a huge asterisk, as in 2017, the actress alleged that she'd been sexually harassed by producer Harvey Weinstein, and believes her career was adversely affected by turning down his advances.

This prompted director Peter Jackson to speak out and reveal that Weinstein blocked him from considering Sorvino for a role in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, dubbing her "difficult."

Between this and the likelihood that Weinstein sabotaged Sorvino's potential to work with other acclaimed filmmakers, her career instead took another, less fruitful path by the late '90s, defined by wall-to-wall critical clunkers and box office bombs.

Sorvino has just three positively reviewed films to her name over the last 15 years, and considering she still regularly appears in up to five movies per year, that's a brutal batting average.

One hoped the tide for a slandered Oscar-winning actress might turn once the word got out, but all these years later, she's still stuck out in the dreck-filled wilderness.