12 Greatest Ways Anyone Ever Accepted An Award

3. Sandra Bullock, The Best + Worst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcLeid8g3MU "Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?" It is rare that things come together quite as well as they did during this 24 hours in the life of Sandra Bullock. The night before the Oscars in 2010 where she would win the Best Actress Oscar for 'The Blind Side', Bullock won Worst Actress and Worst Movie Couple at the Golden Raspberry Awards - and then turned up to accept it! Arriving on stage with a trailer full of dvds of the offending film ('All About Steve') she stood at the podium with the script and offered to read the whole thing line by line and take notes on how she could have done it better. The perfect Oscar acceptance speech requires in equal measure good humor, wit and emotion. Winning Best Actress the very next night with her first nomination, Sandra Bullock ticked every box. From telling Carey Mulligan that her talent "makes me sick" to closing through the tears cried while thanking her Mother to share her win with "my lover Meryl Streep." Sandra Bullock nailed it two nights running. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTTwSQPmMo

4. Marlon Brando No-Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QUacU0I4yU "Accepting the award for Marlon Brando in The Godfather - Miss Sacheen Littlefeather." With some shock and surprise Roger Moore was left holding the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor that he was supposed to present. Instead Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather, who was sent to represent Marlon Brando, explained that Brando 'regretfully' refused to accept the award in protest at the treatment of American Indians in the American film and television industries of the day. The long form statement Brando had prepared was later published in the New York Times. The incident at Wounded Knee that is referred to in the speech was that for 71 days the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, that was built an Indian Reservation. They resisted as the US Government tried to remove them resulting in two deaths. Wounded Knee also had historic importance for the AIM because a massacre of Native Americans by the US Government took place at Wounded Knee in 1890. In all this was the first politically charged Oscar refusal.