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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. The actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather...
- Missy Sullivan
Mar 7, 2021 · However, when Brando won Best Actor at the 1973 Oscars for his role in The Godfather, the actor was nowhere to be seen. In his place, actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather represented the absent Brando as he boycotted the ceremony both to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans in film, and draw national attention to the standoff ...
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- Marlon Brando Wasn't Interested in Fame
- What Happened on Oscar Night?
- How Did Marlon Brando Meet Sacheen Littlefeather?
- Marlon Brando's 'The Godfather' Oscar Refusal Caused Drama
- Marlon Brando and Littlefeather Made History
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. In the...
- Henry Blodget
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...
Feb 2, 2022 · The shock factor came immediately after when a young Native American woman appeared before the podium in place of Marlon Brando and held out her hand in a polite but refusing gesture when Moore presented her with the little golden statue, declining to accept it on Brando's behalf (via The Guardian). Advertisement.
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Jan 9, 2018 · Sacheen Littlefeather holds a written statement from actor Marlon Brando refusing his Best Actor Oscar on stage at the Academy Awards on March 27, 1973 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archvies/Getty Images)
