10 Actresses Whose Careers Went Downhill After Winning An Oscar

3. Renée Zellweger

Oscar Win: Best Supporting Actress, Cold Mountain (2004) The movies Renée Zellweger has appeared in since Cold Mountain have not been uniformly terrible, but she seems to have fallen off the face of the earth these past few years. After initially gaining fame for playing Tom Cruise's love interest in Jerry Maguire, Zellweger continued that success in a string of box office hits such as Me, Myself & Irene, Bridget Jones's Diary, and Chicago. Her performance in 2002's Chicago, in particular, garnered a great amount of positive press. Many wonder if her subsequent Oscar win for Cold Mountain was really the Academy's way of apologising for passing her over that previous year. Either way, considering her career was well-established by the time she won her Oscar, it comes as quite a shock to see how little attention she's received over the past ten years. While she's put forth solid performances in Cinderella Man and the underseen 2008 film Appaloosa, her career seems to have taken a slow and steady dive into obscurity for seemingly no reason. And as for the future? Renée Zellweger has not appeared in a single film since 2010 and there is no news regarding any future projects. So, is she no longer interested in acting or is Hollywood no longer calling? Either way, it's strange to see an actress completely disappear just a few years after winning an Oscar. Her career didn't just go downhill, it went off a cliff.