In Gary Oldman's infamous Playboy interview, one of the only things he said that few took exception to was that he had a hard time convincing his children that Robert De Niro was once considered the greatest working actor.
These days, De Niro is best-known for movies like "Meet the Fockers" and "New Year's Eve."
Let's consider eight Oscar-winning actors who became shameless paycheck whores.
Nicolas Cage
These days the "Leaving Las Vegas" Oscar winner is largely bypassing theaters and producing product that goes straight to video on demand, then plays on a couple of screens before being dumped out on DVD a month later.
His latest genre thriller is "Rage," in which he plays a gangland killer gone straight who tries to hunt down his daughter's killers.
It follows in the footsteps of similar schlock like "The Frozen Ground" (2013), "Trespass" (2011) and "Seeking Justice" (2011). The way things are going, "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" is shaping up as a late-career highlight.
Robert De Niro
That completely unearned Oscar nomination for his generic performance in "Silver Linings Playbook" aside, Bobby D does nothing but embarrass himself these days, saying yes to 11 different movies from 2011 to 2013 alone.
Movies like "Being Flynn," "The Family," "Last Vegas," "Killing Season" and "The Big Wedding" are making it hard to remember his Oscar turns in "The Godfather Part II" and "Raging Bull."
Cuba Gooding Jr.
You get the feeling the academy would really like to rethink giving Cuba the Oscar for being amusing for 45 seconds in his "Show me the money" speech in "Jerry Maguire."
Lately his straight-to-video movies are for people who think Cage's are too highbrow: We're talking interchangeable tough-guy flicks like "Wrong Turn at Tahoe" (2009), "The Hit List" (2011), "Linewatch" (2008) and "The Way of War" (2009).
Al Pacino
Al, Al, Al, Al. So much talent. An Oscar for "Scent of a Woman." Please go back and watch "Dog Day Afternoon" for a lesson in how to act WITHOUT SHOUTING.
Things were already getting a little dodgy for you back in the days of "The Devil's Advocate" — 17 years ago! — but now that you're making films like "Stand Up Guys," "The Son of No One" and "88 Minutes," even the cheesy-fun aspect is gone.
Robin Williams
After he won for "Good Will Hunting," the clowning turned to mugging, and the mugging turned to simpering. That point was back in the late 1990s, with "Patch Adams" and "Bicentennial Man."
"The Big Wedding," featuring Williams as a wacky priest, was like the dead mouse on top of a stale wedding cake.
Richard Dreyfuss
Kids are growing up today saying, 'Wait a minute — that guy who got eaten at the beginning of 'Piranha 3D' was in another movie about a monster in the water?
Maybe Dreyfuss, who won his Oscar for "The Goodbye Girl," was trying to tell us something when he took a job in a movie called "My Life in Ruins."
Jon Voight
It seems like only yesterday that Jon was standing on top of that speeding choo-choo to eternity in "Runaway Train" (1985).
These days Voight, who won for "Coming Home," usually turns up in low-budget afterthoughts like the failed satire "An American Carol," in which he played George Washington.
Morgan Freeman
OK, Freeman, who won for "Million Dollar Baby," successfully poked fun at his Font of All Wisdom act in "The Lego Movie" but he's beginning to slip into unintended self-parody too, relying on that sonorous voice to the point of diminishing returns in films like "Olympus Has Fallen," "Dolphin Tale" and the remake of "Conan the Barbarian."
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