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  • brando is saying to the academy that he just doesnt care about their incompetent opinion

  • o ok marlon won that oscar cuz he more the deserved it and sacheen littelfeather no no but you gotta admit doing that tok balls

  • They should have just given it to Peter O'Toole, come on 8 nominations and no wins. That guy deserves it. His turn as Lawrence of Arabia is one of the great cinematic performances of all time, and the Academy has never recognized his talents bar a crummy honorary Oscar .

  • tatonka bitch.

  • If you are going to refuse an award, do it in person! Coward..

  • sleuth! such an epic movie

  • isint Marlon a little native American

  • At the time, she had a point! Whether shs was native american or not!

  • Marlon Brando..what a brave person..

  • "To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

    -- Mark Twain

  • I wonder if tom hanks was watching this when it happened

  • @ilovemyschnauzer1 I didn't understand your comment, could you explain it to me, please?

  • Example of dignity, this lady.

  • she is gorgeous!

  • A lot of people might be saying, why are they booing or wow whats wrong with them. We fail to remember that it was probably acceptable back then, just as we forget that it was ok to be racist. Nowadays, everyone is breathing down peoples' necks for every word they speak.

  • She's probably drunk.

  • why did pocahontas receive this oscar? x)

  • america belonged to the red indiands ..not the white people

  • Marlon plays a good indian woman.

  • The very same people who said "terri schiavo was murdered" are the same asswipes who booed this young lady some 30 years earlier! Christian sociopaths are the largest threat to TRUE DEMOCRACY!

  • Marlon brando is lucky enough to win an oscar. He should be respected and take it

  • @ilovemyschnauzer1 he's not meaning to refuse the award that way, he just doesn't believe in awards. What's wrong with that? It doesn't take away from his great performance.

  • @ilovemyschnauzer1 lucky enough???? He's just the best actor ever little brain dude

  • @ilovemyschnauzer1 Lucky enough? Ha. Marlon Brando had no competition in his time. WE were lucky enough to be graced by his performances. Marlon doesn't need to take shit.

  • What fucking dicks booed her. Fucking pieces of shit that probably get overpaid while they treat the Native American actors like trash. I am white by the way.

  • A great actor, a great man.

  • I've always been a fan of marlon brando but I've now gained a whole new amount of respect for the man. To do something like this is truly an act of compassion & understanding for a group of people who perhaps aren't often given their due.

  • @fairyfellermaster I don't buy it! Do you think this act diminished his reputation or popularity in any way? Where the sacrifice.  I believe it was a stunt to gain prestige and notoriety for a weak ego and a juvenile personality, which is, after all, what most Hollywood actors suffer from.

  • what gives me more pleasure than watching this? hearing from Marlon himself saying that if it was possible to do over again that night, he would do the same thing!

    man, i miss this kind of honest people!

  • since when does being an actress determine whether or not someone's heritage? even if she was an actress, that doesn't mean she wasn't affected by what happened.

    and to those who say brando was an idiot for doing this: you have no idea what these people have gone through and how many people do NOT know what they have endured.

    thank you native american studies for letting me know a different piece of US history

  • did he not accept the award?

  • fuck brando and fuck the injuns

    should've given the award to the

    guy who finished in second place

    just to watch brando shit through

    his mouth, fucking bi sexual asshole

  • The long speech was 15 pages but the producers wouldn't let her read all of it....thank God.

  • @Encom7 Yet they said that she would be arrested if she did read it on television.

  • I would've booed... sorry to all the native americans I may have offended, but thats just rude...

  • @hockeyissick17 O_o I hope you're just kidding.

  • Are people so serious during this time?

  • wow..

  • I wish I can see who booed and find they're offspring and just laugh at them..

  • @DonShamsi i wish could find you and laugh at your small dick and ugly face.

  • 'Miss Vampire 1970' accepts the award on behalf of the prankster and 'dilittante social activist' Marlon Brando (who was actually watching the show at home giggling with friends and family). By this stage the negro Civil Rights movement had dumped him and even the Panthers had give him a wide birth; sensing only another of his passing commitments. The Indians were in more need of a champion (or maybe, just less politically savvy). Brando jumped on the band wagon and grew another belly.

  • @johnsammyanfal It was your grandpa booing over there, wasn't it.

  • u can tell she started to get sad @ 1:42 i felt bad for her when they started to boo :(

  • Roger moore looks like fucking barbie Ken!

  • Hey guys, let's go find the old fucks that booed this girl and have us a good ass whooping night! Cheers

  • @spiros11386 count me in...

  • Great man!

  • Marlon Brando is my hero! 

  • This is a lovely gesture and I respect Marlon Brando for this, truly. However, this woman should have put more conviction in her speech. I think her speaking as though she would roll over at any second made it harder for the audience to respect what she was doing.

  • I just cannot believe people actually booed her. That just CONFIRMS what Brando said about the treatment given to american indians.

    You can see she's a very inteligent, unpretentious and BEAUTIFUL person. She deserved a standing ovation.

  • man shocks of she refuses the trophy.

  • R.I.P MARLON BRANDO, R.I.P DON VITO CORLEONE..

  • i bet when they heard how Brando declinded his Oscar, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Peter O'Toole and Paul Winfield were all like "well if mr. brando doesn't want his oscar, ill take it for him." haha

  • i admire her courage...thank you brando

  • This is speech deserves an oscar, so emotional and truly a humble act by Brando

  • I wanted to see Brando, well stereo types just won't die will they

  • she is a fake actress Maria Cruz that Brando send she is not a real Indian.

  • @anjica123 Of course not. Because she is not Indian. She is Native American.

  • Booing? Shitheads. o_O

  • man, i wish something this meaningful could happen today...

  • 277 people don't have heart. 277 people don't believe any humanitic values.

  • hollywood....chock full of nuts

  • at least we can say it wasn't the blacks that ruined the evening.

  • I think Brando and George C. Scott are the only actors to refuse an Oscar, but I'm not 100% positive.

  • just when you hope to see brando ....:O___O

  • Brando realized the whole thing was a sham - everyone in Hollywood sitting around giving each other awards...

  • KING KONG BALLZ!

  • Marlon Brando is so coooooool.....

    

  • I actually thought she would start crying at any moment.

  • Who booed? What assholes.

  • who is the native american girl?

  • fuck those people booing, and they dare call themselves professional

  • I like Roger Moore's reaction at 0:43

  • immediately after this, Clint Eastwood had to present an award, and he said: "I don’t know if I should present this award on behalf of all the cowboys shot in John Ford westerns over the years!"

  • @PaulRietvoorn clint eastwood is a dick

  • there is a time and place for everything, this a abuse and misuse of power

  • there is a time and place for everything, this a abuse and misuse of power

  • @enigma7ish I disagree, it's a perfect use of power.

  • Damn, shes beautiful

  • E' già...

  • what was the industry doing at the time that was so bad to the indian people?

  • @mrkyle316 watch old movies with indian characters in them. They were demeaning ignorant and racist. The same with blacks.

  • @MyFistFullOfDollars You say it like it was a bad thing.

  • @mrkyle316 you cannot be serious......

  • @mrkyle316 Watch "Reel Injun" (I think it may be on Netflix, otherwise, it's abundant on the web) It's a documentary about the stereotypes and slander of the Native American people in Hollywood movies. It's crazy.

  • @lastmesren i have seen it. Good documentary.

  • Brilliant. Absolutely barking mad. Don't get any shit like this any more at the Oscars.

  • This has to be one of the most confusing moments in history because an indian is accepting the award for Brando.

  • I wish I knew who booed her. Jerks!

  • Injins

  • @Chris9183 you would like if we never existed, you probably spend all your time posting against the Holocaust, Slavery, war ravage countries, hungry Africans, good causes.. the lady representing Marlon Brando was for a cause, to let the world know we still exist, the people booing in the crowd represent you.. Sorry if the white picket fence, "Leave it to Beaver Days" are no more.. If people like you ran this country with your ideas, Hell yeah there will be another Civil WAR!

  • Best oscar speech ever.I'd of punched anyone that booed.

  • That was the most polite protest ever.

  • Ungrateful, if you ask me...

  • Casino time

  • she was boo'ed? how rude!

  • too bad she couldn't exit the stage with the same kind of pride she walked on with.

    she looked defeated. she should have conducted the speech with the tenor that it conveyed... strength and a firm stance.

    i remember this event and the whole wounded knee fiasco.

    i remember too, that i was glad to hear this speech... and still am almost 40 years later.

  • She was a little known actress, not an actual native american

  • @awritergirl She was actually a model, and is native american. If you watch Reel Injun it'll show you her today talking about this event.

  • when george c scott rejected his win two years earlier he basically said FUCK YOU to the academy for his belief that its all about their politics, with this rejection marlon brando just wanted to get attention with a white girl pretending to be a native american

  • Amazaing!

  • awesome

  • wait, I always hear this guys name so I go to check it up and its.. pocahontas? wtf

  • What treatment is she refering to?

  • Did people in the 70's had souls? --' cuz it doesn't look like to me

  • Does anyone know where the press release is? I would like to read the full statement if it was given.

  • roger moore

  • good for her she is a true native person and stands up tall for what we stand for since day one honor.

  • recent happenings at wounded knee?!?!?! this girl is delusional! the wounded knee massacre happened in the 1800's, this was in 1973.

  • @marneebox There actually was a protest at Wounded Knee in 1973. That's what she's referring to.

  • @marneebox And then there was a standoff in 1973 between Indians and the FBI where two agents died.

  • that was stupid. that had nothing to do with marlon brando. they should have just said that the academy accepts this award on his behalf.

  • roger moore looks awfully sweaty!

  • Godd fatther

  • @stockmack Heil Hitler to that!

  • wtf? lmaoo

  • the eway she walks off is bad ass. she doesn't even look at the presenters. what an amazing apache

  • Brando was an asshat. To politisize this event with a completely unrelated cause is pure selfishness and childish. His cause may have merrit, but this was completely inappropitae. I bet he didn't hesitate to take any paychecks from the motion picture industry that gave him such a great life. Why would he then dump on them and their members during such an important and festive occation with this kind of behavior? Asshats do that.

  • hehe Your little princess is here to please you

  • Brando didnt accept this award like a BAWCE !!

  • Goodness i almost cried.

  • oh my goodness, what a brave woman.

  • Marlon Brando = Baller Extraordinaire.

  • It's James Bond!!!!!

  • @stockmack Excuse you! I'm sure that "oh some of them weren't nice to some people a long time ago" justifies what was almost genocide! And anyway, there basically is no such thing as a "full-blooded" Native America, because, due to their population being nearly entirely wiped out, they have had to have children with people of other ethnicities, not to mention that the white men probably raped a couple of thousand of the Native American women while they were at it. So, don't be so close minded.

  • this moment was so controversial, it totally took the spotlight away from Fosse beating Coppola for the Best Director prize..

  • How Was marlon brando billed as main actor? He was not in it as much as al pacino who was only nominated for supporting actor

  • "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

    Don Corleone

  • What a troll.

  • I'd hit it

  • wow that took alot of guts. she is very courageous because i don't think i could of stand there and said that with a straight face.

  • ...what a beautiful human being...good soul...and respectful of everyone's space...I wouldn never even think of booing her...she deserves applause.

  • @CareRegnumDei amen

  • @CareRegnumDei That was a different time really....people were a lot more understanding and had a social conscience. That's not so much the case now - she'd get booed off the stage, attacked as a hippie liberal who needs to get a job, and Brando would be attacked for using the Oscars as a platform for a cheap political stunt. A good recent example would be the reception that Michael Moore got about 8 years ago when he said "Shame on you. Mr. Bush" during his Oscar acceptance speech in 2003

  • Just when I thought Brando couldn't get any cooler... I see this...

  • Who would dare to dislike this? I think it is the most beautiful and touching moment that the Academy Awards has ever experienced.

  • cool sensual and artistic!

  • Amazing!  I really admire this man.

  • Brando did the right thing. 

  • Didn't it turn out that she wasn't Native American after all? Marlon Brando was so talented, but apparently a huge douchebag who was a nightmare to work work

  • brando is the man

  • Brando was a fucking badass.

  • Was the crowd booing while they were clapping as she was talking?!

  • Brando should have delivered that message himself... not sent a young girl to deliver his message! She looked terrified!

  • The hateful jeers and boo's recieved from the audeince say just as much, if not more so, than she did herself.

  • I don't understand. Why did he refuse to accept the award? Somebody explain?

  • @misscarly12 Because of the way native american people were being treated at the time and the way they were being portrayed in films. That is, they were portrayed as savages and violent peoples who are stupid or unequal to white men. Also, they were usually very racistly portrayed (think Disney's Peter Pan). Obviously, things have improved since then but there are still problems.

  • @misscarly12 Because the U.s army were trying to pry the people of wounded knee off there land - and marlon brando wanted to protest so he asked this women to say waht she had to say

  • the biggest WTF moment in whole oscar history!

  • What ever happened to the American Indian movement. yawn...who knows..over

  • @mooch9668 Many Native people fight very hard for AIM everyday. At least have the courtesy to learn a thing or two before you insult something.

  • I bet anyone who accepted an award after that must've felt like shit xD

  • @betmananana I doubt that after that they probably didn't get much attention, so it wouldn't make much differences anyway.

  • @betmananana Yes LIZA MiNNELI won that night

  • @luguhah, in fact Roger Moore took the Oscar home as noone asked for it afterwards such was the shock of what happened. He did give it back the next day.

  • @kevlegs 2:20 Moore striding off with the statue in hand :-D "So this is mine then?"

  • Boo! clap clap clap! boo boo! clap!

  • RESPECT

  • he was the man

  • Fair play to her and Marlon Brando

  • hahahaha I wonder if Roger Moore just kept it for himself

  • affirmative image wtf get the f outta here

  • I admit that I can buy into her last name being Littlefeather, because the White dictators in the converting schools gave our people whatever crappy names came to mind, but I don't understand her regalia. She says she is Apache, and Apache is the sister tribe of the Navajo, my people. We certainly do not wear that regalia, not just our tribes but any southwestern tribes for that matter. It actually seems like a costume, with the sparkle on the shoulders. Either way, doesn't seem right to me. :/

  • @Starlightkitty12 It probably IS a 'costume' considering most people dress up for the Oscars.. *shrug*

  • @Starlightkitty12 (I´m sorry for my ignorance but...) I want to ask you, cause by this comment i´m a bit confused. Does this means you didn´t choose this type of names or last names? Like littlefeather... the white dictators did??

    I want to know just because of general culture, it would be nice ... Well thanks.

  • Well he won an award for playing an Italian Gangster. Now I'm Italian American and I loved the movie and Brando, but what about the treatment of Italian Americans by the film industry? Maybe he could have sent Sophia Loren up to discuss that topic.

  • @trajan75 I agree with you, the stereotypical betrayal of italian americans is so cliche and stupid. Not everyone italian american is a 'gangsta' who belongs in a Mafioso style family. It's a poor representation of the people and the culture.

    However I believe the issue here lays deeper, I believe Sacheen is speaking about the treatment of Native Americans in general. The native americans have been and still are being treated very poorly.

  • @trajan75 I'm sorry... I must have missed the part of the history books where Italian Americans had almost their entire ethnicity slaughtered, moved onto reservations, and then had a bunch of white people toting their land as their own, then had the audacity to portray Italian Americans as unintelligent savages.

  • @ReiDavidson Unintelligent savages is that what u think of us hmmm

  • wow. that was courageous and an amazingly moving 30 second speech!

  • Why is she so robotic?

  • @avliaro100k she's probably nervous as hell!!

  • is this real?

  • @RDPublic Yes, it is.

  • so awesome there's a tear in my eye

  • The last I've checked... the Academy is in America!

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  • This is... fucking beautiful!

  • Brando chickened out. I remember the backlash then. He should have come and not accepted the award like a man- have her present and air his issues. If he wanted to change the system, make movies with Native Indians and other minorities. Speeches are noble but a paycheck is better.

  • So the racecard has been in play for a long time it seems.