Oscar’s apology to the Indian who won Marlon Brando’s award 50 years ago

According to the film reporter of Fars News Agency, quoted by varietyAcademy apologizes to Sachin Littlefeather for Marlon Brando’s 1973 Oscar moment The museum will host a special program in September.

When Marlon Brando won Best Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), he received his Oscar at the ceremony for what he called racial discrimination and the unfair treatment of people of color. He did not attend and Sachin Littlefeather, a 26-year-old Indian from the Apache tribe, was sent to this event as his representative. The Indian girl went on stage to receive the award on behalf of Bernado. During that ceremony, he faced severe insults from the racists present in the hall, and after the ceremony, he faced physical violence from them.

Fifty years later, the Oscar Academy Museum is apologizing for the way he was treated, in addition to holding a special program and discussion titled “An Evening with Sachin Littlefeather” on September 17.

Littlefeather, now 75, will present an awareness-raising reflection with Amy Huma, vice president of education and public engagement at the Academy Museum.

Little Feather was the first Native American woman to take the stage at the Academy Awards in 1973. The famous 60-second speech is shown in the Academy Museum’s Academy Museum’s Academy Awards History Gallery, Halle Berry, the first black woman to win Best Actress and Parasite to win Best Picture. His words drew attention to the 1973 Wounded Knee protests in South Dakota and led to boycotts, attacks, harassment, and professional discrimination against him over the past 50 years.

Jacqueline Stewart, Director and President of the Academy Academy Museum, said: “We are delighted and honored that Sachin has graciously agreed to work with the Academy and the Museum to reflect the experiences of his efforts at the 1973 Academy Awards.

At the ceremony, the Academy will read a letter of apology that former Oscar president David Rubin sent in June.

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