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According to conventional wisdom, Julianne Moore has this year’s Best Actress Oscar sewed up for her riveting performance in Still Alice, while Eddie Redmayne is the favorite for his role in The Theory of Everything. Before you try to cash in on this year’s office Oscar pool however, you might want to remember back to 2007 when a dreadful stinker of a film named Norbit just might have derailed Eddie Murphy‘s chances at winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Going into the Oscars that year, Murphy was on a roll. His performance in Dreamgirls was hailed as a career best (probably an accurate statement) and a sign that he had matured as an actor after a decade or more of cash grabs in various dreadful films. He had already won the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild award that year. Yet, when Rachel Weisz announced the winner, it was Alan Arkin (for Little Miss Sunshine) who wound up with the prize:
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