Only three people have ever turned down Oscar Awards — Dudley Nichols, Marlon Brando, George C. Scott. Nichols, a screenwriter, was the first person to ever turn down an Oscar in 1936. Brando declined his Best Actor Award for his work in The Godfather as a protest against the way Hollywood portrayed Native Americans in film, and Scott declined his for Patton because he felt that acting should not be competitive.

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