Oscar winner once withdrew the award

Over the past few years “Oscars slap. But while the moments such as” La La Land “, briefly taking the best picture of Oscar from” Moonlight “, are as unforgettable as the uncomfortable ones, they are only on the tipt . Wild insanity. won the Oscar to just lose it.

But as it sounds, you only have to throw your gaze as far away as the Oscar ceremony in 1969 to look at a few disposable events. For example, this is the year when in Only acting tie In the history of Oscar. Well, this is also the year when the movie won the Oscar … And then canceled it. This questionable honor goes to the documentary “Young Americans”, so you have definitely not heard about this situation. It would be one thing if a larger issue came so close to the glory of Oscar and refused them; This is something else for a movie with a less recognizable background withdraw your victory.

If you pay attention to the parties and outputs of “Oscar” every year, you know that suitability is a very difficult thing. For example, a film like “Toy History” is nominated for the best original scenario because it is not based on previous materials (even if it makes a referral in real life). But his “Trkel” “History 3” was nominated for the best adapted scenario, despite the fact that it is not based on a book or material but its predecessors. But one of the simplest definitions of the annual right is quite simple: the film must play at the US cinema for at least one week in which it is allocated. If, for example, Shana Baker’s movie “Anora” was shown in the cinema during the week in 2022, he could not receive the right to “Oscar” 2024. It seems quite simple, and yet it was not for “young Americans”. An important documentary from the late director Alex Grof focused on the choir of the youth show when they are preparing for a US bus trip. Undoubtedly, the useful topic and tone of the documentary made to attract counter -arguments for the upheaval in the late 1960s related to the protests against the Vietnam War and the fight for civil rights. Instead of young people who participated in these protests, there was a movie about CHIPPER and the happy children who easily swallow the academy.

This may be why “young Americans” won the Oscar for the best documentary, but there was only one problem: the film played in a small theater in North Carolina in 1967, a year before the right to the next Oscar ceremony. Now we can wonder why the Academy did not understand that the film had to be disqualified from the beginning, but it was. Although Grof and his wife were able to enjoy the immediate honeymoon with the Oscar statue, they soon addressed no one else, like the aticus Finch himself, Ryhor Peck (who was then president of the Academy), and reported that im needed to return to return the statue with Honor is withdrawn. If in 2008 he passed away, his widow talked with Los Angeles Times about unique circumstances Victory, and then lost the Oscar, saying that “it was the main disappointment” that followed from the fact that “young Americans” were in October 1967, “viewed preview in a small city.” This was enough for the Academy to return the award as it is very extreme.

It is easy to rip your eyes on the “Oscar” and their rules sometimes, but they adhere to the weapon, no matter who is affected. A few years after the “Young Americans” debala, they had to launch a second vote for the best original Oscar dramatic score, since one of the candidates this year was re-used from the issue in the late 1950s. Againous movie and score? Why, it would be a “godfather”, with the designs of the incomparable Nino Rota. If the Academy was ready to give up reward from one of the most massive and favorite films this year (and the score that, not forget, is one of the greatest times), then it is not surprising that they will support the same firmness for the movie that was not the same known. And these rules also extend to high -ranking members of the Academy. In 2014, composer Bruce Bratotan used his influence as a former Academy governor to convince voters to highlight him for his song from the movie “One Another”; Once his voting was discovered Its nomination has been canceled. (Of course, it was the same year when “let him go” won the best original song “Oscar”, so it’s not as if this other song has a chance to fight. But still))

Despite the dubious honor of the victory, and then lose the Oscar, Alex Grof continued to have a fruitful career in the field. He would continue to rinse the episodes of several series of the 70’s era (in this film nominated the best documentary nomination, although he did not win.) He also won Amy and Piboda for his 1981 “Wave” about the experiment in the real life of the school A teacher to show how anxious it would be easy would be easy for people to take the Nazi regime rule. Although the name Gromshoff will always be synonymous with this amazing little Oscar, he did not drowned his career. In decades, we can only remind ourselves that as memorable as the “Oscar” can be as much as they can (sometimes in the biggest public conditions), they always adhere to their rules, expectations.