Luise Rainer (1910- ) For The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). However, she would later remark that by winning two consecutive Oscars, “nothing worse could have happened to me”, as audience expectations from then on would be too high to fulfill. Some film historians consider her the “most extreme case of an Oscar victim in Hollywood mythology”. (Many thanks to Appalling Gael for pointing out that it is not Jodie Foster (who became the second person to do it).)