Oscars 2024: Which Olympic Stars Have Lifted the Academy Award in Their Careers?

One of the greatest defenders of all time, he was an Olympian in the history of international basketball. An esteemed member of the U.S. men’s basketball gold medalist team, he was bestowed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012 London Olympic Games. His contribution to the sport is not limited here. He also gifted the basketball industry with a legendary ovation when he popularized the sport in the 2024 Chronicle.

Honored by an Oscar for his contribution to the entertainment industry through filmmaking in the year 2018, the Olympic star script-wrote for the enthralling documentary, “Dear Basketball.” The author of the same narrated the entire documentary in his voice back then, in 2018, when the film also won an Academy Award.

Being the youngest All-Star shooting guard player in the National Basketball Association, Kobe Bryant spent his entire 20-year career as a recognized NBA player. Representing the Los Angeles Lakers, he has many times won the National Player of the Year awards. And, adding to his crown, he was endowed with the Oscar as the best writer for the Best Animated Short Film Award lately.

A member of the top-notch basketball team in the United States, Kobe Bryant dedicated this film to his adoration for the sport in which he has vested his entire professional life. He had initially written the poem “Dear Basketball,”  but it got animated two years later. Therefore, winning an Academy Award encouraged him to write more and add more to his passion for basketball.

Life after being an Academy Award Winner

Kobe Bryant’s approach to inspiring others for the sport naturally increased once he received the Oscar 2024 title. In 2018, he again published a book that elaborated on the special techniques and approach to a good basketball game. The book was called “The Mamba Mentality: How I Play”, reflecting himself as the ‘Black Mamba.”

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After his professional accomplishments as a celebrated NBA player and an Academic Award-winning writer, Kobe Bryant’s sudden death in a helicopter crash was announced on January 26, 2020. While traveling with his daughter for a girls’ basketball game, the crash killed all nine people aboard. Though the fandom could no longer experience his further endeavors, he was honored in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame that year.

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