Originally posted by Rota:
...The only bad thing about his winning is the fact he may never be able to do any other sucessful movie again without someone bringing up his work in the Pianist as Wladyslaw Szpilman.
Possibly. There have been many cases where an actor or actress happens to win an Academy Award for the performance of a lifetime and then never quite lives up to that standard in their post-Oscar work.
But that remains to be seen. And in the case of people like Brody this may have been his one & only chance for an Oscar and he did deserve it. So I don't think we (or he) should lament just yet that winning may have been a 'bad' thing.
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