Melissa Leo is getting candid about how winning an Oscar has impacted her career — or rather, not impacted it. Leo, 65, won Best Supporting Actress at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011 for her role in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melissa Leo, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for “The Fighter” in 2011, said during a Q&A with The Guardian that her ...

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 ...

Kirk Douglas shuffled out with the aid of a cane to present the nominees for Best Supporting Actress, but first ogled Franco and Hathaway. "He looks so much better out of the cave… and Miss ...

Melissa Leo, who played a weathered Bostonian in the boxing film "The Fighter" won the first major award of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards scoring the trophy for best supporting actress. She appeared ...

She also ensured her speech would be one of the night's most talked-about, by dropping the F-bomb halfway through. "When I saw Cate do this two years ago it looked so f*cking easy," she said, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It was both poignant and heartening to see Kirk Douglas having a great ...

Melissa Leo is one of those character performers who has been in so many things, it seems as if she's always been with us. But despite a busy career on stage, the 50-year-old New York native really ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “One loses one’s mind. I had won a lot of prestigious awards for The Fighter that season, and sat in that great gigantic theater ...

Melissa Leo won the best supporting actress Oscar for playing the fiery mother of troubled Irish-American boxing brothers in "The Fighter." Leo, who had been the frontrunner for her performance in the ...