No thanks to the Academy. In an interview with the Guardian published on Thursday, Melissa Leo, 65, griped that winning an Oscar, “has not been good for me or my career.” “I didn’t dream of it, I ...

Melissa Leo is getting candid about her status as an Academy Award winner. “Winning an Oscar has not been good for me or my career,” the actress, 65, said while answering recent reader-submitted ...

Actors dream of winning Hollywood’s highest honor — an Oscar — but Melissa Leo curses the day she nabbed the coveted award, accusing it of hurting her career by typecasting her. “[It] has not been ...

The Oscar has long been viewed as a career-defining milestone, but that promise does not hold true for everyone. Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo reflects on her Best Supporting Actress win ...

Melissa Leo has made the surprising admission that she had a “much better career” before she won an Oscar for the sports biopic The Fighter. The 65-year-old actor earned the Academy Award in 2011 for ...

Melissa Leo is convinced winning an Oscar was "not good" for her career. The 65-year-old screen star took home the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the 2011 Academy Awards for her role in The Fighter ...

Consider this: Winning an Academy Award isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be, according to Melissa Leo. The “Frozen River” star, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2011 for “The ...