Why did Helen Hunt's career go straight down the shitter?

her appearance on james corden was humiliating.

cold.

For me, it was around the time of “Castaway” that I came to the realization that I did not care for Miss Helen Hunt. Which was weird since I had always enjoyed her as a child actress.

She was always one cold fish.

Everyone said she was mean. Mean will kill a woman's career in show business. lesbian.a goodaactoe and she is also a closeted lesbian.

Leelee Sobieski stole her thunder... and looks.. and then her career also proceeded straight down the shitter.

Let's be charitable and say she was not exactly "smooth sailing" to work with. That's why we never had her back.

Her face has not aged well. I would imagine she wants leading lady parts although old hag/shew parts would fit her nicely.

[quote] not aged well

Whatever do you mean, R7?

Gee,thanks for scarring my beautiful mind with that awful image R8!

Her lips are too thin.

“As Good As It Gets” was such a miserable fucking movie.

One note actress. One long and boring note.

She's renting out her forehead as an IMAX screen and making better money than she would as an actress.

Tesxtbook fivehead.

Were she and Rebekah Mercer separated at birth?

who in fuk is she

Because she's a terrible actress

She was a weird mess on james Corden show, seemed robotic

Not a great actress, deeply unpleasant human being and a humorless lesbian.

What's to like?

Did she really deserve her oscar?

Was the Academy on crack in 1997? All four acting Oscars that year were a fucking joke (especially Kim Basinger's - I still can't wrap my head around that one). It was a pretty weak year for movies, but still.

OP because she had youth related cuteness. She was cute in her "Mad about you" years but like a lot of white women she loss the fat in her face (yes yes you all hate anything with fat) and once that padding was gone....SHE DRIED THE FUCK OUT. When you start looking like the child of Christopher Lambert and Rocky Dennis (the movie version not the r.l. RD).....all bridges will close. You need more than just white skin & blonde hair to be attractive...and that's just white people's standards of beauty.

R22 lost not loss

Horrible actress, she made it solely through luck, timing and connections. I can’t stand that cunt.

R21 Yes, those Oscars were a sorry lot. As bad as they get.

Mediocre beauty and talent, what do you expect? She actually defied the odds by winning an Oscar and have a hit sitcom, she's not a sob story at all, she had tremendous luck.

r13

Yeah, what a FIVEhead she has

Have always hated her. The fact that she has an Oscar is astonishing. Mad About You was such a terrible show it made me want to hurl myself into traffic.

Wasn’t she even nominated a second time for her soft-core pron flick?

Kate Winslet should have won for "Titanic" that year. Her character truly undergoes a transformation during the time the Titanic is at sea, plus on a superficial note her costumes were beyond stunning.

Sadly, she lost her Oscar and cred in an extreme weather event.

Whenever she was onscreen in As Good As It Gets it turned into a movie of the week. She lacked the charisma Nicholson and Kinnear brought. She was merely a third wheel in that movie. Holly Hunter, who turned it down, would have been sublime.

For what reason did she do total frontal nudity? I suppose she looks good for her age but she doesn't look good, in fact I think I threw up a little in my mouth.

R33, I wasn’t joking upthread. She played a sex therapist for a guy with a major disability. It was so earnest, watching it was like eating dry grape nuts.

I saw that appearance on james corden.

she seemed awkward and nervous, whats her problem. the Oscar curse no doubt....

she looked old, but still....

She's kind of annoying and not very pretty either. Also unlike the other popular 90s sitcoms, some of which I still watch, I had completely forgotten all about Mad About You.

I'm not personally outraged she won an Oscar, it was a weak year and it was a pretty good movie. She lucked out, Holly Hunter was stupid to turn it down. I hated Helen when "Mad About You" was airing, but now it (and Helen) have disappeared from the cultural landscape, and she seems cool enough.

She caught Richard Kind blowing Hank Azaria on the set of Mad About You. Richard used his Hollywood connections to stop Helen from getting A-list parts. Seriously,that's the story I heard.

How unkind.

Agree r32

That’s some juicy dirt r38. How connected is Kind and how did he carry out this smear.

Richard Kind has been George Clooney's best friend for decades.

was she the victim of some home invasion, and her face was crudely reconstructed?

wtf???

5head, squint, no lips, horrible body

Helena Bonham Carter should have won the Best Actress Oscar over Helen Hunt that year. She was wonderful in The Wings of the Dove.

She married Hank Azaria and dated Kevin Spacey. So she's a lez?

Hank Azaria would want Richard Kind to suck his cock? Really? I can't make that image work in my head. I think Paul Reiser would let Richard blow him, but why Hank?

Azaria was so good looking during the MAY years - he could have had anyone (hired anyone) far hotter to swallow or wear a load of Hank's spunk.

Weak year with HBC in "Wings Of The Dove"?? What are you people smoking??

That Oscar belongs to Kate Winslet. HBC and Julie Christie were ALSO awesome.

Are her labial lips as thin as her facial lips? Asking for a friend.

Thanks R34. I never heard of her making that film. I'll check it out if I can find it. Although unless it was most important to the story, naked doesn't work for her.

I always get her confused with Laura Dern.

Hey, we like Laura Dern!

R47 I’m not that good looking and have had plenty of beautiful men that could have had hotter. Not everyone is that superficial.

Some people just vibe well.

Hank Azaria must have cheated because they were together a long time before marriage and then abruptly divorced.

Who is this old lady?

She's a lipless lesbian who used to have a sit-com, R56.

Why do people think she’s gay?

She is mean and treats people like shit. EOS.

I have thin lips and a large forehead am beginning to feel a bit self conscious now.

She's a hag. They should throw her all of the roles that involve playing witches. They could save a ton of money on makeup!

I kind of liked her in [italic] The Miracle of Kathy Miller [/italic].

Because she's a lesbian, R58. She's always been gay, it's not a secret.

Think about someone fifteen years ago asking why people think Ellen is gay. That's you asking about Helen Hunt today except she'll probably stay closeted longer.

R60, if you're not mean, the forehead and lips combo really doesn't matter. It's the nastiness that's the actual problem.

Thanks, R64 and I totally agree.

We are all wonderfully unique.

Why the hell is she showing her pussy on screen, now of all times?

R66 = Paul Reiser

Hank Azaria has a huge cock. I don’t blame Richard Kind for wanting to chow down on it,

I can't remember who, but some other actor would pronounce Azaria as "azarrhea" and Frank would go ballistic.

R60 = Jodie Foster

WTF has she done to her face? Eyebrow lift?

R71 Holy shit! I thought that was just an unfortunate screen capture but she looks even scarier in the video. She's starting to look a bit extra terrestrial-ish.

We need one of our plastic surgery mavens. They can identify every nip and tuck.

I see cheek implants.

She's still alive?

I iked her in The Miracle of Janis Johanobloxin.

She was surpringly great in the sex therapist movie. But no one was beating Anne Hathaway that year.

After an Oscar and four Emmys there’s nowhere to go but down. I think Hunt did what she wanted to do acting wise after MAU and AGAIG and has no regrets.

MAY I mean

R31 TWISTER was actually great for her film career. It was the second highest-grossing film of '96 (after INDEPENDENCE DAY) and gave her movie star cred. She followed that the next year with AS GOOD AS IT GETS, which was also a smash hit (#6 of '97). It's little wonder she won the Oscar. She also won the Emmy those two years. And the following year after winning Oscar.

She could out-cunt Barbara Barrie.

So Barbara Barrie even ruined Helen Hunt?

What more is there to say about Barbara Barrie?

She does ruin everything.

I don't think Helen is a movie star. She has made movies and won an Oscar but for me she lacks that extra something that makes a star. I don't find her cold as others do but neither is she warm. But I thought she did a good job directing Then She Found Me, except maybe she should have cast someone else in the lead role and not herself.

R51 it was called "The Sessions". She plays a sex surrogate who teaches people how to have good sex. In this case to a severely disabled older virgin. She lost the BSA to AnnE.

1997 is the year Judi Dench should have won for "Mrs Brown". She had the Golden Globe for Drama and then the BAFTA afterwards.

The Academy gave her BSA the following year for those 8 minutes as Queen Elizabeth 1 to make up. This win denied both Brenda Blethyn for "Little Voice" and Lynn Redgrave for "Gods and Monsters", both of whom were amazing.

1997 was an awful year, Oscar wise. Jack Nicholson does nothing special or new and Kim Basinger was competent at best. I wouldn't deny Robin Williams though for "Good Will Hunting", he was far better than the rest of the cast (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver..) oh wait.......

Regarding her Best Actress win, I think it's been long theorized that Helen Hunt benefited from being the only American in the category that year.

To her credit, IIRC she basically said Judi Dench should have won in her Oscar speech.

[quote]Regarding her Best Actress win, I think it's been long theorized that Helen Hunt benefited from being the only American in the category that year.

I think it had more to do with her being hot at the moment. She was on a hit TV sitcom and had recently won back-to-back Emmys (1996. 1997) and had starred in two smash hits -- TWISTER (#2 film of '96) and AS GOOD AS IT GETS (#6 film of '97) -- so she was considered both a TV star and movie star.

The others didn't have that clout, except for Winslet who was a previous Oscar nominee and that same year starred in the blockbuster TITANIC, but no one thought that it would take home any acting awards. Some thought that Gloria Stuart had the sympathy vote, but Kim Basinger won Golden Globe and they both shared SAG.

People forget but Judi Dench was pretty unknown outside of the UK until then. In fact, MRS. BROWN was her first Oscar nod at age 63 though she'd already been BAFTA nominated multiple times since the '60s. Also, the film had been intended for television, but Miramax scooped it up and released it in theaters in the US.

WINGS OF THE DOVE and AFTERGLOW were small art house films with little to no audience.

F&F this misogynist, shit-stirring OP always looking to manufacture issues by attacking innocent women. It's just a straight-up hater.

It floods Datalounge with sexist, pointless threads, trying to get you to think there's a problem with EVERY actress who did not feature in a hit last month.

ENOUGH. Get a life, OP.

F&F so this tired, name-dropping troll is forced to talk about something RELEVANT and BREAKING NEWS.

“In the year Judi Dench should have won...” Yuck, whatever. She should have won over Helen Hunt but NOT over Winslet, Christie, or Carter.

AGAIG and Helen were both over praised that year. I hated that film.

She needs Jesus.

She sho is ugly