10 Incredible Actors Who Went Bad To Win An Oscar

3. Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Notice how these days any bitchy woman of some authority is always referred to as a €œNurse Ratched?€ In Milos Forman€™s 1975 classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo€™s Nest, Mildred Ratched is the head nurse at a mental institution where Jack Nicholson and a few other famous faces are patients. While she doesn€™t much physically hurt her patients, she abuses them psychologically and mentally. As played with precise menace by Louise Fletcher, Ratched meets her match with Randal Patrick McMurphy (fellow Oscar winner Nicholson) and the two are in a constant battle for supremacy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGRD6JBnHrU Fletcher gives an unflinching portrayal of a scary authority figure and created an iconic movie villainess. And before you could say lobotomy, Fletcher was walking onstage to receive her Best Actress Oscar.
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Chris Gallo, a Connecticut native, has been a movie fan ever since he made his mom rent Airplane! for him as a kid back when video stores still existed. He's been writing film reviews on his own blog (www.mybodymovies.com) since 2005; the same year he graduated from Marist College. He has also contributed film reviews to the movie site DarkHorizons.com. Besides watching movies (horror's his favorite) and adding to his Blu-ray collection, he enjoys running, eating spicy foods, predicting the Oscars, and coming up with creative Halloween costume ideas.