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Brando and Scott may be the more prominent celebrities to refuse their awards, but Dudley Nichols was actually the first person to ever turn down an Oscar.
Who is banned from the Oscars? According to Insider, six other men have previously been banned from attending the Oscars or expelled from the organization: Richard Gere, Carmine Caridi, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, Adam Kimmel and Harvey Weinstein.
2023 marks 50 years since the 1973 Academy Awards, meaning it's been half a century since Marlon Brando famously snubbed his second Oscar for Best Actor.
The Godfather
Composer for the film, Nino Rota, was originally nominated for Best Score, but his nomination would later be revoked after a discovery was made.
Who is banned from the Oscars? According to Insider, six other men have previously been banned from attending the Oscars or expelled from the organization: Richard Gere, Carmine Caridi, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, Adam Kimmel and Harvey Weinstein.
Following his slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars, Will Smith has been banned from attending the annual awards show and any other academy event for 10 years.
Leslie Jordan, Anne Heche, and Tom Sizemore left out of Oscars In Memoriam.
The record for the youngest Academy Award winner of all time goes to the brilliantly talented Tatum O'Neal. At a mere ten years and 148 days old, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Addie Loggins in 1973's Paper Moon, becoming the youngest Oscar winner of any competitive category.
As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
Snub: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
But while the blockbuster garnered five Academy Award nominations, including a nod for Best Picture, along with Best Adapted Screenplay, sound and film editing, visual effects and Best Original Song, one major player was missing from the festivities tonight: the franchise's star, Tom Cruise.
(NEXSTAR) – The Academy Award is generally regarded as one of the highest honors that an actor can receive — the keyword being “generally.” In the history of the Oscars, however, there have only been three people who refused their awards: actors George C. Scott and Marlon Brando, and screenwriter Dudley Nichols.
Charlie Chaplin – "To Charles Chaplin, for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus". Warner Bros.
Pacino was insulted by the 'Supporting Actor' tag he had received. After all, Pacino's total screen time in The Godfather as Michael Corleone was larger than Brando's – who played his on-screen father. As such, Pacino was infuriated and opted not even to attend the Academy Awards ceremony of 1973.
John Williams becomes oldest person to be nominated for Oscar.
The youngest winner at the Academy Awards is still Tatum O'Neal. She won Best Supporting Actress for the film Paper Moon in 1974 at the age of 10.
Tatum O'Neal won the youngest Oscar on this list with her performance in Paper Moon aged just 10 years old. During filming she turned nine years old, an incredible feat for such a young actress. Unfortunately this success was not continued in the rest of her career.
The British method actor Daniel Day-Lewis is the only performer to have ever achieved the feat of winning three Academy Awards for 'Best Actor', rightfully claiming the statuette for three excellent movies.
Who knows the winners before they're announced? According to the academy website, just two PricewaterhouseCoopers partners know the results beforehand. PwC is the accounting firm that tabulates the votes. Each partner is stationed in the Dolby Theatre's wings during the ceremony with a full set of winners' envelopes.
Two actors have won two consecutive awards: Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938) Tom Hanks – Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)
In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and therefore ineligible.
The Academy previously addressed Smith's behavior, at one point admitting that “we could have handled the situation differently.” They also called Smith's actions “unacceptable and harmful behavior” and, once again, noted that they did not “adequately address the situation in the room.”
In the past, some big names found themselves banned from attending the Oscars. Will Smith is the most recent one. The Men in Black actor slapped comedian Chris Rock live on air during the Oscars after Chris made a few jokes about Will's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.