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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.
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Mar 7, 2021 · Brando famously turned down his Best Actor Oscar win for The Godfather, drawing attention to Hollywood's history of demonizing Native Americans.
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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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Feb 24, 2017 · On March 5, 1973, Marlon Brando declined the best actor Academy Award for his gut-wrenching performance as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather." He did so for an unexpected reason.
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Feb 27, 2014 · On March 5, 1973, Marlon Brando declined the Academy Award for Best Actor for his gut-wrenching performance as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" - for a very unexpected reason. Here's how it...
Mar 2, 2023 · When the 26-year-old Native American activist came onstage to decline Marlon Brando's Oscar for best actor – awarded to him for his towering performance in The Godfather – it seems all hell broke...
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Mar 19, 2022 · Marlon Brando boycotted the 1973 Oscars and declined his award for 'The Godfather'. Here is the reason for why he made this decision.
