Editing Academy Awards (section)

=== Refusals of the award ===
Some winners critical of the Academy Awards have boycotted the ceremonies and refused to accept their Oscars. The first to do so was screenwriter [[Dudley Nichols]] (Best Writing in 1935 for ''[[The Informer (1935 film)|The Informer]]''). Nichols boycotted the [[8th Academy Awards]] ceremony because of conflicts between the Academy and the Writers' Guild.<ref name="DYK">{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/oscars/oscars_didyouknow.jsp |title=The Oscars Did You Know? |access-date=June 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623000022/http://www.biography.com/oscars/oscars_didyouknow.jsp |archive-date=June 23, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> Nichols eventually accepted the 1935 award three years later, at the 1938 ceremony. Nichols was nominated for three further Academy Awards during his career.

[[George C. Scott]] became the second person to refuse his award (Best Actor in 1970 for ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'') at the [[43rd Academy Awards]] ceremony. Scott described it as a "meat parade", saying, "I don't want any part of it".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/obituaries/455563.stm |work=BBC News |title=George C Scott: The man who refused an Oscar |date=September 23, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311095900/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/obituaries/455563.stm |archive-date=March 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904789,00.html |magazine=Time |title=Show Business: Meat Parade |date=March 8, 1971 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221203341/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C904789%2C00.html |archive-date=December 21, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/oscars/oscars_didyouknow.jsp |title=Fast Facts – Did You Know? |publisher=Biography.com |date=May 16, 1929 |access-date=February 6, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210075430/http://www.biography.com/oscars/oscars_didyouknow.jsp |archive-date=February 10, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The third person to refuse the award was [[Marlon Brando]], who refused his award (Best Actor for 1972's ''[[The Godfather]]''), citing the film industry's discrimination against and mistreatment of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]. At the [[45th Academy Awards]] ceremony, Brando asked actress and [[civil rights activist]] [[Sacheen Littlefeather]] to read a 15-page speech in his place, detailing his criticisms, for which there was [[booing]] and [[cheering]] by the audience.<ref name="DYK"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Oscars |title=Marlon Brando's Oscar win for " The Godfather" |date=October 2, 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU |access-date=February 25, 2019 |via=YouTube |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217152537/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU |archive-date=February 17, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2022, Littlefeather was accused by her sisters of misrepresenting her ancestry as Native American.<ref name=":1">{{cite magazine |last=Kreps |first=Daniel |date=October 22, 2022 |title=Sacheen Littlefeather Lied About Native American Ancestry, Sisters Claim |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/sacheen-littlefeather-native-american-ancestry-1234616464/ |access-date=March 12, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023002533/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/sacheen-littlefeather-native-american-ancestry-1234616464/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 22, 2022 |title=Sacheen Littlefeather's sisters say her Native identity was fraudulent |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php |access-date=March 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022111100/https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |last1=Keeler |first1=Jacqueline}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Travis |first1=Emlyn |date=October 22, 2022 |title=Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American activist who protested the Oscars, was a 'fraud,' sisters say |url=https://ew.com/movies/sacheen-littlefeather-native-american-oscars-protester-fraud-sisters-say/ |access-date=March 12, 2023 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en |archive-date=January 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114223534/https://ew.com/movies/sacheen-littlefeather-native-american-oscars-protester-fraud-sisters-say/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sacheen Littlefather's sisters say she was not Native American. The actress had disputed similar claims before. |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sacheen-littlefather-not-native-american-sisters-say-marlon-brando-oscar-speech-actress/ |first1=Caitlin |last1=O'Kane |access-date=March 12, 2023 |website=CBS News |date=October 24, 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025195840/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sacheen-littlefather-not-native-american-sisters-say-marlon-brando-oscar-speech-actress/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Gilio-Whitaker |first=Dina |date=October 28, 2022 |title=Sacheen Littlefeather and ethnic fraud – why the truth is crucial, even it it[sic] means losing an American Indian hero |url=https://theconversation.com/sacheen-littlefeather-and-ethnic-fraud-why-the-truth-is-crucial-even-it-it-means-losing-an-american-indian-hero-193263 |url-status=live |access-date=March 12, 2023 |website=The Conversation |archive-date=March 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312093928/http://theconversation.com/sacheen-littlefeather-and-ethnic-fraud-why-the-truth-is-crucial-even-it-it-means-losing-an-american-indian-hero-193263}}</ref>