Titanic

Helen Hunt
Best Actress: "As Good As It Gets" (1998)

There was a time when Helen Hunt was hot stuff. The go-to gal for "regular woman we might actually marry" roles, she was the highest-paid actress on television for her sitcom "Mad About You." And she's got a certain kind of ... more talent, for sure. So it was, I suppose fine that she won an Oscar for her sassy, world-weary waitress in need of a compliment in James L. Brooks' wonderful "As Good As It Gets," but I don't know. Beating the sublime Kate Winslet in "Titanic" But never mind that. While Winslet has gone on to nominations galore and to become one of the great actresses of her generation, Hunt fell off the radar. She may have taken her own break, may have done some theater but, frankly, people were just sick of her. Even when she showed up as Tom Hanks' girlfriend in "Cast Away," many audiences were thinking ... oh, her again. And "What Women Want?" Not Hunt.

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