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Mint
2 days ago
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- Mint
Most scandalous Oscar moments in history that sent shockwaves through Hollywood
Most scandalous Oscar moments in history that sent shockwaves through Hollywood| In Photos 5 Photos . Updated: 07 Jun 2025, 09:41 AM IST Share Via The Academy Awards have seen their fair share of jaw-dropping and headline-grabbing moments, including controversial wins, shocking snubs, and more. 1/5Screenwriter Dudley Nichol grabbed headlines for becoming the first person to decline an Oscar. He turned down the Best Screenwriter award for The Informer in a show of solidarity with the Writers Guild, which was on strike at the time. (Pinterest ) 2/5In 1942, How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture over Citizen Kane, a film that critics would later hail as one of the greatest movies ever made. (Pinterest ) 3/5Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar win in 1961 came amid intense public scrutiny following her affair with Eddie Fisher, who was then married to America's sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds. She won for Butterfield 8, in which she portrayed a character she herself referred to as the slut of all time. (Pinterest ) 4/5Katharine Hepburn won for her portrayal of Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter. At the same time, Barbra Streisand took home the award for her debut performance in Funny Girl at the 1969 Oscars. However, with Hepburn absent from the ceremony, Streisand had the spotlight all to herself. (Pinterest )
Forbes
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Jean Marsh, ‘Upstairs, Downstairs' Star And Co-Creator, Dies At 90
Jean Marsh, Head and Shoulders Publicity Portrait for The British TV Drama Series, "Upstairs, ... More Downstairs", ITV, 1976. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Jean Marsh, who reached a career zenith as the star and co-creator of the British period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, died on Sunday, April 13 at her home in London from complications of dementia. She was 90. 'Jean died peacefully in bed looked after by one of her very loving carers," said her friend, director Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg, in a statement. 'You could say we were very close for 60 years. She was as wise and funny as anyone I ever met, as well as being very pretty and kind, and talented as both an actor and writer. 'An instinctively empathetic person who was loved by everyone who met her," he added. "We spoke on the phone almost every day for the past 40 years.' As Rose Buck, the no-nonsense but warm-hearted head maid in Upstairs, Downstairs, which she co-created with Dame Eileen Atkins, Marsh won the Emmy in 1976 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The program, which is considered the inspiration for the more recent Downton Abbey, aired in the UK from 1971 to 1975 and in the United States on PBS from 1974 to 1977. Anthony Andrews (fore 2L) and Jean Marsh (rear 2R). Other cast members of Upstairs, Downstairs ... More posing at farewell gathering as series comes to an end. (Photo by) In 2010, a three-part revival of Upstairs, Downstairs aired on British broadcaster BBC One, with Marsh reprising her role as Rose Buck, who had returned to London to run an agency for domestic servants after a period spent nursing her mother in Suffolk. Two years later, in 2912, a six-part continuation was commissioned, but Marsh was seen less frequently due to a stroke suffered by the actress. Born on July 1, 1934 and raised in Stoke Newington, London, Jean Marsh her screen debut at 18 in a British television movie, The Infinite Shoeblack, in 1952. One year later came her feature film debut in British mystery thriller A Limping Lady. In 1959, Marsh went to the United States for John Gielgud's Broadway production of Much Ado About Nothing" and began making guest appearances on television including episodes of The Twilight Zone, Danger Man, The Saint and I Spy. She was a regular in the ITV 1966-67 drama The Informer and appeared in several episodes of Doctor Who through the course of her career. English actress Jean Marsh joins the cast of television science fiction series 'Doctor Who' as ... More companion Sara Kingdom, UK, 3rd December 1965. (Photo by John Downing/Express/) British actresses Heather Sears (1935 - 1994, left) and Jean Marsh, stars of the new Rediffusion ... More Television series 'The Informer', publicisze the show at ATV House on Kingsway, London, 20th July 1966. (Photo by John Pratt/Keystone/) In film, Marsh's resume included The Rebel (1961), Unearthly Stranger (1964), fantasy adventure Willow (1988), thriller Frenzy (1972) and war movie The Eagle Has Landed (1976). And, on stage, Marsh appeared in several Shakespearean adaptations, among other plays. More guest roles on television continued, including episodes of The Waltons, Hawaii Five-O and Trapper John, M.D. In 1982, Marsha switched to comedy as uptight Roz Keith in the 1982-83 TV show 9 to 5, which was based on the film of the same name. Her next regularly scheduled role was as Mrs. Crocker in the 2000-01 British children's drama The Ghost Hunter. Marsh also wrote several novels, including two based on The House of Eliott; Fiennders Keepers; and Iris. Marsh was married to Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee for five years before their divorce in 1960 and she also had relationships with actors Kenneth Haigh, Albert Finney and Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg
USA Today
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Why these 3 Oscar winners turned down their Academy Awards
Winning an Oscar is considered the biggest honor an actor, writer, producer or director can receive. Why would anyone turn that down? And yet three people in the history of the awards have done just that. The reasons vary: Some wanted to draw attention to a cause, others felt strongly the annual glamour fest was an embarrassment to the profession. The Oscars got their start back in 1929 at a rather sedate hotel dinner for 270 stars and Hollywood denizens. The next year, the ceremony was broadcast on radio. From there, the race was on. The awards show soon picked up a catchy nickname, and quickly became the industry's ne plus ultra event broadcast around the world. Last year, some 19.5 million tuned in to see Cillian Murphy ("Oppenheimer") and Emma Stone ("Poor Things") happily make the walk to the stage to accept the coveted trophy. Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox. Rate your 'Film of the Year': Join our Movie Meter panel and make your voice heard! While a number of famous stars have elected to skip the ceremony, despite numerous nominations and wins (Katharine Hepburn and Woody Allen come to mind), only a trio so far have actively snubbed Oscar. Dudley Nichols Who is Dudley Nichols? In his day, a fairly big deal, a screenwriter who eventually became president of the powerful Writers Guild of America. So what's his Oscar story? Nichols penned the screenplay for "The Informer," a book-based drama centered on Ireland's 1922 War of Independence and a traitor within its ranks. The movie was a hit at the box office and a stout contender at the 1936 Academy Awards, going head to head with "Mutiny on the Bounty" across six major categories. While "Mutiny" took best picture, "The Informer" won best actor, director, score and screenplay for Nichols. Nichols decided to decline his award because Hollywood workers were pushing to unionize. The industry had organized in the wake of the Great Depression of the early 1930s in an effort to secure better pay. He finally did accept his award in 1938 with the formation of the then-named Screen Writers Guild, which eventually morphed into the WGA. George C. Scott Actor George C. Scott turned in a towering, glowering performance as World War II general George S. Patton in 1970's "Patton," which won Scott best actor and signaled the arrival of a hot new Hollywood talent in best screenwriter winner Francis Ford Coppola. But Scott was a no-show at the awards a year later. In fact, when he heard of his nomination for best actor, Scott sent a telegram to the Academy saying he had no intention of accepting the award if he won, and in fact would prefer not to be nominated at all. Why? Scott didn't like the idea of being in competition with fellow actors, but what's more, he held little regard for movies, which he felt were beneath the craft of acting in plays. 'Film is not an actor's medium,' Scott told Time magazine before that year's awards, in a blitz of publicity that caused Academy members to take sides: The old guard were furious, while young actors admired his principles. 'You shoot scenes in order of convenience, not the way they come in the script, and that's detrimental to a fully developed performance.' Where is his Oscar? History is unclear, but one of the movie's seven Oscars now rests at the library of the Virginia Military Institute, which educated Patton. The best picture statue was donated by "Patton" producer Frank McCarthy, a graduate of the institute. Marlon Brando Marlon Brando was a once-in-a-generation actor who literally re-wrote the acting book with his powerful Method performances on both stage and screen. His 1973 best actor win was all but expected given the tremendous success of 1972's "The Godfather," in which Brando played Don Vito Corleone. Interestingly, Brando had been out of favor with the Hollywood system by the early 1970s, after a series of movies that ran over budget and failed to score big at the box office. He was considered a high-risk hire, and "Godfather" director Coppola had to fight to cast Brando. So perhaps it wasn't a surprise when instead of accepting the award, he stunned the well-heeled crowd by sending in Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse the Oscar proffered by Roger Moore. Instead, she gave a statement (abridging a 15-page speech Brando had written for the occasion) in support of Brando's latest political cause: the plight of Native Americans, specifically the occupation of a town called Wounded Knee. No one knows where that famous Oscar is now.
