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The Oscars' most iconic boundary-breakers: As Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone makes history with her Best Actress nomination, the other iconic Academy Award 'firsts', from star who presented HERSELF with award to actor who REFUSED a statue
Killers of the Flower Moon received 10 Oscar nominations this year, including best director for Martin Scorsese, but the film's biggest star Leonardo DiCaprio was noticeably snubbed.
Instead, his co-star Lily Gladstone is in the running for best actress and made history as the first ever Native woman of American descent to be nominated in that category at the Oscars, which sees her go up against the likes of Emma Stone, Carey Mulligan and Annette Bening. Russell took on the role of Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives, which tells the tale of three veterans who meet on a flight to their midwestern hometown of Boone City, and also stars Myrna Loy, Fredric March, and Dana Andrews. Scott famously called the Oscars 'a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons', and sent a telegram to the Academy telling them that he'd be refusing the award, and didn't even want his name on the ballot.
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