As We Count Down to the 81st Annual Academy Awards on February 22nd, Mr Skin Pays Tribute to the Twenty Actresses Who Took Home Oscar Gold for Films in Which They Flashed Flesh
The 20th, and until now final, actress to win an Academy Award for a nude role was dazzling British beauty Rachel Weisz, who took home a trophy for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the dramatic thriller The Constant Gardener. But even if she is surpassed as the last woman to get a statue for putting statues in men's pants, Rachel will always have one very distinctive claim to fame: She wasn't simply nude in The Constant Gardener, she was nude and pregnant! Though the film employed a stunt stomach, after the movie was filmed, Rachel got knocked up in real life and accepted her award when she was more than seven months pregnant, wonderfully uniting big-screen fantasy with reality.
Will another name (or two) be added to this list in 2009? Tune in to the 81st Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night to find out if Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, or Marisa Tomei are honored with Oscars for boldly baring their bods in their nominated roles.
