I agree, it IS bordering on the bizarre, but facts can be stranger than myth or fiction–a quick survey of Academy Award winners does indicate a high probability of them sporting a tattoo!
So much so that it is estimated that the chances that a celebrity brandishing skin art is significantly higher than the 1-in-8 in ordinary folks. But what’s the thing with tattoos and winning Oscars?
Female Oscar winners Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlize Theron, Halle Berry, Helen Mirren, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Jessica Lange, Geena Davis, Marisa Tomei, Whoopi Goldberg and Melannie Griffith are just some of the female lead stars who won the Golden Statue… and they all sported all shapes and hues of tatoo designs.
The tale of the tattoo runs similar with male Oscar winners as well–Robert de Niro, Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage, Sean Penn, Cuba Godding Jr., and Ben Affleck…
It’s astonishing, but the unspoken truth in Hollywood is that a wide range of the glitterati do believe that a tattoo could be the key to laying their hands on an Oscar!
