Brando rejects Oscar award Los Angeles, March 28: “The Godfather” was named the best film of 1972 and its star Marlon Brando, the
While Katherine Hepburn famously declined every invitation to attend the Academy Awards, she reportedly displayed the Oscars trophies she had won proudly in her home. However, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Dudley Nichols flat out refused the award.
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.
(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.
The actress was booed at the Academy Awards in 1973 after she refused the best actor award on Marlon Brando's behalf in protest of Hollywood's depictions of Native Americans.
In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and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.
Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sigourney Weaver have all been nominated three times but have never received a golden statuette.
In its 94-year history, the Academy has expelled only five members: Carmine Caridi, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski, and cinematographer Adam Kimmel.
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Snub: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
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.
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.
Despite his popularity and critical acclaim, however, Keanu Reeves has never won an Academy Award. Reeves has been nominated for a few prestigious awards over the years, including a Golden Globe for his role in "The Matrix" and a Saturn Award for his role in "John Wick." However, he has yet to take home an Oscar.
The actor is a constant Hollywood presence but despite three nominations for an Oscar he's never landed one. Tom Cruise has been a constant Hollywood presence since he arrived in the world of cinema.
Another star who's been nominated for an Oscar but never won: Johnny Depp. The actor and musician has been up for best actor three times. No telling how his recent legal troubles will impact his movie career, let alone his bid for the industry's biggest award.
Tom Cruise will not be at the 95th Academy Awards. ET has confirmed the Top Gun: Maverick star's absence is due to him already being back on set overseas for Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part II in the United Kingdom.
As of 2021, 44 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn leads the way with four (all Best Actress).
Though Smith is banned from Academy events over the next decade, the actor is still eligible to be nominated; he will not be able to accept an award in person. Smith is not nominated for any awards at the 2023 Oscars and has kept a relatively low profile in months following the slap.
From that time onward, trackable serial numbers were added to statuettes, and honorees had to sign a "winner's agreement" specifying that Oscars may be bequeathed to an heir or nonprofit institution — but not sold without first being offered back to the Academy for the token sum of one dollar.
As of now, no Oscar winner has ever had their award rescinded by the Academy, although producer and serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein was expelled from the governing body in 2017.
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.
Caridi was cleared of wrongdoing. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on February 3, 2004, that it was expelling Caridi for violating his agreement to safeguard their screeners, making him the first Academy member to be expelled.