Actress-activist Sacheen Littlefeather's place in Oscar history came full circle as she participated in a 'healing event' at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, nearly 50 years after she was booed as she read a statement from Marlon Brando in 1973 while declining his Best Actor statue for 'The Godfather.'
Actress-activist Sacheen Littlefeather's place in Oscar history came full circle as she participated in a "healing event" at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, nearly 50 years after she was booed as she read a statement from Marlon Brando in 1973 while declining his Best Actor statue for "The Godfather."
Brando sent the then 26-year-old aspiring actress to protest the treatment of American Indians by the film industry but she was interrupted by boos, heckling and insults from the audience. Saturday's sold-out event included an discussion between Littlefeather and producer N. Bird Runningwater, the co-chair of the Academy's Indigenous Alliance and former head of the Sundance Institute's Native Lab.
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