10 Actors Whose Careers Went Downhill After They Won Oscars

2. F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray AbrahamBlood Monkey. That's the name of a recent movie that F. Murray Abraham - who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1985 for his sensational turn in Amadeus - starred in. It's exactly the movie you're picturing in your head, by the way. It's about killer monkeys in Thailand. It went straight-to-DVD. This wasn't the result of some ill-judged one-off decision, though, courtesy of Abraham's coked-up agent - this is F. Murray Abraham's career. This is what he does. This is what he's been doing ever since he won his Oscar in 1985. Seriously. Trawl through Murray's filmography in the years following Amadeus to the present day and you'll find barely any movies that are considered to be much good admist all the cinematic abominations, save for a couple in the immediate aftermath of his Oscar win. For some bizarre reason, every movie that came his way from that point onwards totally sucked. Some of the movies weren't even released theatrically, or worldwide. Given how great he is in Amadeus, it seems really unfortunate. Did I mention Blood Monkey? He was in Shark Swarm, too.
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