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      • Brando was the second performer to turn down a Best Actor Oscar; the first was George C. Scott, who politely declined to accept his award for Patton in 1971 and reportedly said of the Academy Awards hoopla: “I don’t want any part of it.”
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  2. Feb 26, 2018 · Screenwriter Dudley Nichols did this when he became the first person to decline an Oscar for the 1935 film, The Informer.

  3. Nov 13, 2009 · On March 27, 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather. The actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather...

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  4. Oct 3, 2022 · Sacheen Littlefeather, who emerged onto the national scene when she appeared in Marlon Brando's stead to decline his Academy Award for The Godfather, died on Sunday at 75, reports Variety.

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    The Godfather served as a big comeback for Brando, who had hit a major dry spell with his career in the previous decade, due in part to his behavioral issues and the controversies of films like One-Eyed Jacks, Mutiny on the Bounty, and A Countess From Hong Kong. His name had effectively been tarred and feathered, and so you would think that he'd be...

    Brando didn't even bother showing up to the Academy Awards show. According to The Contender, everybody knew Marlon wouldn't show up and that he was going to send a mysterious "someone" to accept his award. When he was officially announced as the winner, the camera swooped across the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and settled on...a young woman with long...

    Accounts of how Brando and Littlefeather met vary. Littlefeather herself, when interviewed by the Akron Beacon Journal in 1974, claimed they met when she applied to work for Francis Ford Coppola, who then referred her to Brando because he allegedly knew Brando's interest in the Native American experience. However, in 2021, she changed the claim and...

    Predictably, there was some pushback. By Mann's account, while Marlon got some congratulations from people like his children and Jack Nicholson, the majority of mainstream media condemned it as a shameless affront to American values in an act of what we would perhaps call empty virtue signaling. Numerous television and newspaper/tabloid outlets wer...

    Brando's life, more or less, was unaffected by this scandal, an odd footnote amidst an illustrious and legendary lifetime. People eventually moved on from it, and so did he. In the case of Littlefeather, however, her legacy grew complicated due to some allegations from her family. For the San Francisco Chronicle, Navajo author Jacqueline Keeler int...

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  5. Feb 21, 2022 · The first person to refuse their Oscar happened decades before Brando's political statement in 1973. Though not a household name today, this up-and-coming screenwriter made some waves before the 1936 Academy Award ceremony by becoming the first winner of this fairly new award to reject their prize.

  6. Littlefeather represented Marlon Brando at the 45th Academy Awards (better known as the Oscars) in 1973, where she – on Brando's behalf – declined the Best Actor award that he won for his performance in The Godfather.

  7. Aug 16, 2022 · At the 45th Academy Awards in 1973, Littlefeather, aged 26, walked up to the stage to decline Brando's best actor Oscar on his behalf, becoming the first person to make a political statement at...

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