As I was watching the new Gillette goatee trimmer commercial “starring” Adrien Broady, I began thinking about all the Oscar winners (like Brody) whose career’s went no where.

The music industry is riddled with one hit wonders, but the Academy Awards certainly has had it’s fair share of Oscar winners who fell off the movie map. Actors, Actresses, Writers, Directors…

Here is my list of one hit Oscar winners…

- ADRIEN BRODY (The Pianist)

- ROBERTO BENIGNI (Life Is Beautiful)

- JENNIFER HUDSON (Dreamgirls)

- MO’NIQUE (Precious)

- HAING S. NGOR (The Killing Fields)

- KIM BASIGNER (L.A. Confidential)

- BRENDA FRICKER (My Left Foot)

- F. MURRAY ABRAHAM (Amadeus)

- MICHAEL CIMINO (The Deer Hunter)

- HELEN HUNT (As Good As It Gets)

- MARLEE MATLIN (Children Of A Lesser God)

- CUBA GOODING JR. (Jerry Maguire)

- FORREST WHITAKER (The Last King Of Scotland)

- MERCEDES RUEHL (The Fisher King)

- GIG YOUNG (They Shoot Horses Don’t They?)

- JENNIFER CONNELLY (A Beautiful Mind)

- MIRA SORVINO (Mighty Aphrodite)

- OLYMPIA DUKAKIS (Moonstruck)

- LINDA HUNT (The Year Of Living Dangerously)

- SOFIA COPPOLA (Lost In Translation)