Marlon Brando - Academy Awards (Oscar for Best Actor in 1973)
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The reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today (1973) by the film industry.
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Top 10 People who Rejected Prestigious Awards and Honours
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George C. Scott - Academy Award (1971)
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David Bowie - British Knighthood
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Bowie: "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. It's not what I spent my life working for."
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George Bernard Shaw - Nobel Prize in Literature and Knighthood
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He wanted to refuse the Nobel prize because he didn't sought public recognition, but his wife convinced him to accept it. Aside from the Oscar he got for Pygmalion, he refused all other awards and honours, including the one for knighthood.
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Jean-Paul Sartre - Nobel Prize in Literature (1964)
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Sartre: (a writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own %u2013 that is, the written word), and (all the honours he may receive expose his readers to a pressure I do not consider desirable.)
