Oscar Winners on the Small Screen

Winning an Academy Award used to mean you’d never have to stoop to doing television again. But nowadays, more than a dozen former Oscar winners are finding new dramatic challenges on the small screen. Click through to find out which award-winners you can watch at home every week.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Won For: Playing psychic Oda Mae Brown, who helped Patrick Swayze connect with Demi Moore from beyond the grave in 1990’s “Ghost.”

Now She Plays: Herself, offering wry observations on the day’s news on ABC’s female-oriented talk show “The View.”
Whoopi Goldberg

Won For: Playing psychic Oda Mae Brown, who helped Patrick Swayze connect with Demi Moore from beyond the grave in 1990’s “Ghost.”

Now She Plays: Herself, offering wry observations on the day’s news on ABC’s female-oriented talk show “The View.”