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Actor George C. Scott went one further, declining his best actor Oscar nomination for Patton in 1970. The Academy went ahead and awarded him the prize anyway, which he refused to accept, calling the Oscars "demeaning" to actors and describing the ceremony as a "two-hour meat parade".