Want to Win an Academy Award? Play a Wife or Criminal

Do you want to win an Oscar? Play a wife or a criminal!

In an effort to discover what The Academy believes is a good movie, Fusion have created a breakdown of all the fictional professions that have allowed for actors to win Best Actor and Best Actress. The found that while 16% of women have won for playing wives, while 13% of men have won for playing criminals.

Here’s what they found:

Best Actress:

1. Wife (16%)

2. Entertainer (14%)

3. Widow (11%)

4. Blue Collar (11%)

5. Socilalite/Heiress (8%)

Best Actor:

1. Criminal (13%)

2. Military (11%)

3. Entertainer (9%)

4. Arts and Literature (8%)

5. Royalty/Nobility (8%)

Via Fusion:

At the Oscars, women have been consistently rewarded for portraying characters who conform to traditional gender roles. And when they do work outside the home, they’re often limited to blue collar jobs like waitress and housekeeper.

Last night’s nominees and winners of the Oscars 2015 also followed that trend. The winner of Best Actress last night, Patricia Arquette played a mother/ex-wife on Boyhood and the winner of Best Actor, Eddie Redmayne played author, scientist, and disabled entertainer in the movie The Theory of Everything. 

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