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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 a very unexpected reason. He did so for a ...
This List includes the awards and nominations of Marlon Brando. Marlon Brando was an American actor known for his intense leading roles in film. He received numerous awards including two Academy Awards , three BAFTA Awards , five Golden Globe Awards , and a Primetime Emmy Award .
The Native American activist, who famously declined Marlon Brando's 1973 lead actor Oscar, died Sunday Sacheen Littlefeather, activist who declined Brando's 'Godfather' Oscar, dies at 75 Skip to ...
The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando's boycott of the Oscars, and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he could not show up to collect his Best Actor award for The Godfather; and by Charlie Chaplin's only competitive Oscar win, for Best Original Dramatic Score for his 20-year-old film Limelight, which was eligible because it ...
Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather” on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native ...
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cinema actors of the 20th century, [1] [2] Brando received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Sacheen Littlefeather endured boos, mockery and lies when she took the stage at the 1973 Academy Awards to reject an Oscar on behalf of Best Actor winner Marlon Brando — and to call for better ...
Russell Means contended that "Marlon Brando and Sacheen Littlefeather totally uplifted" the lives of those at Wounded Knee. [85] [11] Actor Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto in The Lone Ranger and later founded the Indian Actors Workshop, commented that he did not think Littlefeather's appearance at the Oscars "did any harm or any particular ...