Charlize Theron's Oscar-Winning Formula Involves Getting Fat, Prosthetics

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When [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/183155/personmain.jhtml"]Charlize Theron[/url] talks about how to triumph during awards season, you'd better listen. She's a two-time Oscar nominee, a four-time Golden Globe nominee, the star of such respected fare as "Monster," "North Country" and... "Aeon Flux."

Hey, not everyone's a winner, right? Ms. Theron is nonetheless a critically-lauded thespian, and her latest offering — she plays a loathsome yet hilarious YA novelist in [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/465685/moviemain.jhtml"]"Young Adult"[/url] — has once again landed her in the middle of [url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1676037/golden-globe-nominations-the-artist.jhtml"]awards-season[/url] chatter. Could this be the year she adds a second statue to match the first, which she nabbed for her turn as a serial killer in "Monster"?

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Perhaps. But it most certainly [i]is [/i]the year you can learn from Theron about how to win an Oscar. In the latest episode of "After Hours," the 36-year-old sat down with MTV's Josh Horowitz to explain how to cozy up to the Academy and walk away with a little golden statuette. The easiest way? "Do what I did," she declared. "Just get fat and put a bunch of prosthetics on."

Hear that, aspiring Hollywood A-listers? Skip that acting class and just watch "After Hours."



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