Today’s scene that I love comes from 1970’s Patton.

This scene, which occurs at the start of the film, won George C. Scott an Oscar …. which he refused to accept.  Scott announced, even before he was nominated, that he wouldn’t accept the Oscar.  One gets the feeling that probably made it all the more likely that he would win.  To Scott’s credit, he did not send someone else to refuse the Oscar (and take the boos) in his place.

Would George Patton have refused the Oscar?  Probably not.