Actress Melissa Leo Says Winning an Oscar Was 'Not Good for My Career'

The Fighter star says winning Oscar ‘has not been very good for me or my career’

Melissa Leo won the Academy Award in 2011 for her supporting role in the Best Picture-nominated sports biopic

Actress Melissa Leo Says Winning an Oscar Was 'Not Good for My Career'

Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Melissa Leo is getting candid about how winning an Oscar has impacted her career — or rather, not impacted it. Leo, 65, won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011 for her role in The Fighter, which costarred Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg. She had previously been nominated for 2008’s Frozen River in the Best Actress category. In a reader Q&A with The Guardian published on Thursday, Januar…

Melissa Leo Says Her Oscar Win 'Has Not Been Good' For Her Career

Melissa Leo gave a blunt assessment of her career nearly 15 years after winning her Oscar, confessing the award “has not been good” for her. The actress, who won the Best Supporting Actress award for her work in “The Fighter” at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011, reflected on her big win for a Q&A with The Guardian and admitted the prize wasn’t a game changer for her career. “Winning an Oscar has not been good for me or my career,” she candidly sa…

Melissa Leo Says Winning an Oscar ‘Was Not Good for My Career’

The actress recalled the moment she became an Academy Award winner in 2011 — and what her career prospects have been like afterwardSteve Granitz/FilmMagic Melissa Leo in 2024NEED TO KNOWMelissa Leo answered reader-submitted questions with The Guardian about her on-screen career Winning her Oscar for The Fighter in 2011 was not “good for me or my career,” she claimed“I had a much better career before I won,” added the actressMelissa Leo is gettin…