George C. Scott was a great all-rounder. Renowned for work as an actor, producer and director he collaborated with Kubrick, married Colleen Dewhurst and played the original Ebenezer Scrooge.
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He was the first actor to refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Patton in 1970), having warned the academy months in advance that he would do so on philosophical grounds if he won. Scott believed that every dramatic performance was unique and could not be compared to others.
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Scott portrayed George S. Patton in the 1970 film Patton and researched extensively for the role, studying films of the general and talking to those who knew him. Scott refused the Oscar nomination for Patton, just as he had done for his 1962 nomination for The Hustler, but won the award anyway.
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In a letter to the Motion Picture Academy, he stated that he did not feel himself to be in competition with other actors. However, regarding this second rejection of the Academy Award, Scott famously said elsewhere, The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade.
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The three renegades below each had grounds upon which to refuse the Academy and ignore their recognition in the past. Here’s how, why and who ending, with perhaps the greatest and most controversial Oscars moment yet.
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He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and as Ebenezer Scrooge in Clive Donner's 1984 film A Christmas Carol.
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Academy Awards, USA. Refused to accept the nomination and the award, because he did not feel himself to be in any ... More. Refused to accept the nomination and the award, because he did not feel himself to be in any competition with other actors.
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George C. Scott. Refused to accept the nomination and the award, because he did not feel himself to be in any ... More. Refused to accept the nomination and the award, because he did not feel himself to be in any competition with other actors. Frank McCarthy, the film's producer, accepted the award on Scott's behalf at the ceremony, but returned it to the Academy the next day in keeping with Scott's wishes.
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George Campbell Scott was born in Wise, Virginia, the son of Helena Agnes (née Slemp; 1904–1935) and George Dewey Scott (1902–1988). His mother died just before his eighth birthday, and he was raised by his father, an executive at Buick.
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Dudley Nichols was a trailblazer for turning down Academy Awards. Years before anyone else had the balls to refuse film’s most prestigious honour, he turned down the “Best Screenwriter” Oscar for The Informer in 1936. And it was all because the Screen Writers Guild was on strike at the time. He would later serve as President of the institution himself.
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why did george c scott refused the oscar
George C. Scott refused the Oscar because he did not feel himself to be in any competition with other actors. George C. Scott refused the oscar because he did not feel himself to be in any competition with other actors.