Can the Academy take an Oscar away?
Can the Academy take an Oscar away? Although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which oversees the Academy Awards, has expelled individuals from its organization before, it has not stripped an actor of their Academy Award. The academy has revoked an Oscar before, but for a film, not an actor.
Why did Marlon Brando not accept Oscar?
Brando also refused to accept the award due to the federal response to Wounded Knee, when members of the American Indian Movement occupied the South Dakota town but were met by resistance from federal law enforcement. Littlefeather said she promised Brando that she wouldn’t touch the Oscar statuette, she said.
Why did Elizabeth Taylor refuse an Oscar?
Elizabeth Taylor in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Warner Bros. Taylor’s then-husband Richard Burton (also nominated for the same film “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) convinced the actress to skip the 1966 ceremony with him. Burton had already lost four times, and was afraid of losing. Taylor won best actress.
Has anyone been stripped of their Oscar?
In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and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.
