Warning! Oscar can be bad for your career

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-02-19 09:53

The top contender at this year's Razzies is the Mike Myers comedy "The Love Guru," which co-stars Ben Kingsley. In 1983, Kingsley won an Oscar for "Gandhi." Now, he is Razzie-nominated for playing a flatulent, cross-eyed Indian mystic.

As for last year's lead acting Oscar winners, Daniel Day-Lewis and Marion Cotillard were missing in action in 2008. From the 2007 class, Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren have also kept a relatively low profile. Mirren, 63, made her biggest splash in supermarket tabloids after her trim bikini'd figure was snapped by paparazzi.

On the other side of the coin, Nicolas Cage is arguably Oscar's accidental over-achiever. Since his award for 1995's "Leaving Las Vegas," Cage has appeared in two dozen films. Sales were all over the map, and Sean Penn once sniped that Cage "was no longer an actor," but his 2007 film "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the biggest of his career.

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