Halle Berry and other Oscar curse victims

Actress Halle Berry arrives at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Jan. 16, 2011) Credit: Getty Images
If "The Help" star Viola Davis is named best actress at next Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, let's hope she has a more successful post-Oscar career than Halle Berry, the previous (and to date, only) African-American to win that prize. After winning the golden guy in 2002, Berry saw her reputation tarnish in turkeys like "Gothika" and "X-Men: The Last Stand." And let's not forget the purr-fectly awful 2004 comic book yarn "Catwoman."
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