The back story behind the five most memorable Oscar-winning speeches that were never delivered Oscars
? Or Dalton Trumbo’s noble oration when he received a screenplay award for Over nine decades of Oscar, there’ve been countless nominees who didn’t get the chance to thank their agents, mothers and God, in that order. But there were also winners who, for various reasons, didn’t deliver their remarks.
Lasky thanked the Academy on behalf of “my good friend” Rich, who couldn’t be there, he said, because Rich’s wife was about to deliver their baby. Rather than attend the awards, Brando sent Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather in his place. “We live in fictitious times,” he told the Academy. “We live in a time when we have fictitious election results and elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it’s the fictition [sic] of duct tape or the fictitious [sic] of Orange Alert. We are against this war, Mr. Bush.”“Shame on you Mr. Bush, shame on you Mr. Bush,” Moore continued. “And any time you’ve got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
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