{"id":47999,"date":"2022-08-17T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/academy-awards-apologises-to-sacheen-littlefeather-for-oscars-speech-abuse-oscars\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:09:50","slug":"academy-awards-apologises-to-sacheen-littlefeather-for-oscars-speech-abuse-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/academy-awards-apologises-to-sacheen-littlefeather-for-oscars-speech-abuse-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Awards apologises to Sacheen Littlefeather for Oscars speech abuse | Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), the body that oversees the Oscars, has issued a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist who appeared at the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony as part of Marlon Brando’s refusal to accept his award .<\/p>\n
Brando was awarded the best actor Oscar for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather, but did not attend as a protest in support of Native American rights, in part inspired by the ongoing two-month occupation of the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre by the American Indian Movement (AIM). Instead, Littlefeather declined to accept the statuette from presenters Roger Moore and Liv Ullmann, and made a short speech, in which she said that Brando’s stance was due to \u201cthe treatment of American Indians today by the film industry … and on television, in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee.\u201d<\/p>\n