The Oscar Divorce Curse Is Real For Men, Study Says

February 23, 2015
Los Angeles

Sure, it’s a many prestigious endowment that Hollywood has to offer, though that desired Oscar statue competence also be a bad feeling for some of a actors who accept it, a new investigate suggests.

Male Oscar winners are 3 times as expected as other actors to get a divorce during their initial year of marriage, a investigate found. And a news is scarcely as bad for a runners-up. Male actors nominated for an Academy Award

“We always consider about standing and relocating adult as something good, though we also celebrated all a wretchedness that comes with certain thespian increases in status,” Michael Jensen, a plan highbrow during a University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and a study’s lead author, told Live Science. [Oscar Time! Glitzy Facts About a Academy Awards (Infographic)

Jensen, who studies amicable standing in business organizations, pronounced he wasn’t astounded that winning a prestigious esteem like an Oscar

This career plunge is a supposed “Oscar curse” that is pronounced to have originated with Luise Rainer, a renouned film star who won dual Oscars for best singer in a 1930s and afterwards some-more or reduction fell off a map. Rainer allegedly blamed a prestigious awards for a solid decrease of her career in a decades that followed. Since Rainer’s time, many other stars â€” from Halle Berry and Catherine Zeta-Jones to Gwyneth Paltrow, Adrien Brody and Cuba Gooding Jr. â€” have also seen their stars tumble during slightest a bit after they took home a golden statue

But these veteran downslides arenâ€™t a widespread phenomenon, according to Jensen, who pronounced this “Oscar curse” is unequivocally usually a “Hollywood myth.” The researchers came to this end after formulating a statistical indication representing a veteran and personal lives of 1,023 heading actors and actresses from 1930 (the year of a second annual Academy Awards ceremony) by 2005. The researchers looked during those who won or were nominated for possibly a heading or a ancillary role.

From this model, they resolved that Oscar winners and nominees indeed seem in some-more films following their Oscar wins than do other actors. The winners also seemed in some-more “high-quality” films â€” films that accept prestigious awards or premiere during vital film festivals â€” than do other actors.

“The genuine Oscar abuse is not a veteran curse, it’s a personal curse. Moving adult and unexpected apropos a large shot increases a odds of removing a divorce,” Jensen told Live Science.

However, this personal-life abuse seems to impact usually masculine Oscar winners and nominees, not their womanlike counterparts. Although Sandra Bullock, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon and Hilary Swank are all new examples of women who got divorced after winning an Oscar, a researchers found that statistically, womanlike Oscar winners and nominees do not get divorced during a aloft rate than other heading actresses, according to a study.

This inequality in a altogether trends in divorce rates

The group of Hollywood should mind a study’s warnings, a researchers said. This year’s Oscars were hold on Sunday (Feb. 22) in Los Angeles.

“It kind of creates this quandary for men. The bottom line is, if you’re meditative quite professionally, go forward and win all we can. But if you’re meditative about your personal life, afterwards postponement for a moment,” Jensen said.

The investigate was published online

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