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  2. Feb 26, 2018 · It was the first time an actor had sent someone to reject an Oscar in person, but it wasn’t the first time someone had refused the award. George C. Scott also famously rejected his Best Actor ...

  3. 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.

  4. Aug 24, 2023 · Dudley Nichols, a screenwriter, was the first person to reject an Oscar, citing the Academy's mistreatment of writers. Other Oscar winners, such as George C. Scott and Marlon...

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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. Mar 11, 2024 · John Springer Collection/Getty Images. The first person to ever refuse an Academy Award was Dudley Nichols, a screenwriter who won in 1935 for his screenplay for "The Informer." It was one of...

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  6. Dudley Nichols - 1935 Oscar for Best Screenplay. The first person to reject an Oscar was screenwriter Dudley Nichols, who won for Best Screenplay for the 1935 film, 'The Informer'.