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According to Melissa Leo, winning an Academy Award isn’t everything.
The Frozen River star, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Fighter in 2011, told the Guardian that the honor did not help her acting career.
“Winning an Oscar was not good for me or my career,” she said. “I never dreamed of it, I never hoped for it, and I had a much better career before winning.”
Leo, 65, also recalled accidentally using profanity during his acceptance speech at the 2011 Oscars. “I still regret that I cursed,” she told the Guardian, adding, “I curse all the time, but you can’t curse on network TV.”
Leo starred opposite Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in David O. Russell’s 2010 sports drama The Fighter, for which Bale won Best Supporting Actor. This is Leo’s first Oscar win since she was nominated for Best Actress for “Frozen River” in 2009.
During the 2011 awards season, Leo took the unusual step of personally paying for an ad asking Oscar voters to consider his performance in The Fighter. The mocking ad featured an image of the actress posing next to the words “Please consider.”
At the time, Leo told Deadline that he removed the ad because he was frustrated because he felt his role in The Fighter wasn’t getting enough attention from the media.
“I took matters into my own hands,” Leo told Deadline in February 2011. “I knew what I was doing and told my agent how serious I was about this idea. I had never heard of an actor advertising for his role, so I wanted to give it a try.”
After The Fighter, Leo appeared in films such as Flight, Oblivion, Prisoners, The Equalizer, and Novitiate, as well as television shows such as I’m Dying Up Here and I Know This Much Is True.
Leo previously told Closer in 2022 that winning the Oscar “changed my life, but I can’t say it changed my life for the better.” “After I won the Academy Award, I was like, ‘Oh, this is so amazing! So this is the movie I’m going to be starring in now!'” Leo explained. I started having expectations and had to get over it. I’m really trying to move forward now and make conscious choices about my work and not do work that is harmful to myself or others. ”
