10 Best Ways Actors Ever Received Awards
4. Paul Newman No-Shows His Oscar Win, Compares It To "Chasing A Beautiful Woman For 80 Years"
Paul Newman finally won a competitive acting Oscar in 1987 for The Color of Money, this being the legendary performer's seventh acting nomination and coming a year after he won an honourary Academy Award - typically a sign the Academy thinks you're probably not winning one outright.
Yet Newman didn't bother attending the ceremony, having grown tired of the awards circus and evidently resigned to the fact he wouldn't win - a fact likely compounded by receiving that honourary gong the year prior. All the same, the smart money was certainly on him to win, and indeed he did.
The award was instead accepted on Newman's behalf by AMPAS president Robert Wise, and when Newman was subsequently interviewed about the win, he gave the most note-perfect, on-brand Paul Newman response imaginable:
"It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.'"