Oscar winners are more likely to live longer than their loser costars: study
nypost.compublished in the journal PLOS ONE. Researchers from the University of Toronto created a model based on 2,111 actors from 1929 to 2020 who were nominated for the prestigious Academy Award or appeared opposite a nominated actor.
According to the data, actors who win an Oscar are more likely to live to about 81, while those who are only nominated — or, gasp, not nominated at all — are likely to live to about 76. “Academy award winning actors and actresses show a positive association between success and survival, suggesting the importance of behavioral, psychological, or other modifiable health factors unrelated to poverty,” lead study author Donald Redelmeier reported.
The life expectancy of an Oscar winner has been the subject of debate for more than a decade after a 2006 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that winners do indeed live four years longer than their overlooked counterparts.
An example of the selection process used in the new study was Meryl “Queen of the Oscars” Streep, 72, who starred in and was nominated for the 1988 film “Ironweed.” However, four other female cast members in the same film were not nominated — including the late Margaret Whitton, who died at 67 in 2016.Of the 2,111 actors studied, 1,122 had died by July 1, 2020.
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