If you said George C. Scott or Marlon Brando, you're off by 35 years.
Dudley Nichols turned down his 1935 Best Screenplay Oscar for
The Informer in protest of the Academy's attempts to act as a trade arbitrator.
When the Academy got out of the labor organizing business two years later,
Nichols finally accepted his award.

Nichols was depicted as a character in the play
The Special Award, which dramatized the conflict between the
Academy and the unions at the time.

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