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标题：O'Toole snubs honorary Oscar
作者：TOM KELLY
期刊名称：London Evening Standard
印刷版ISSN：2041-4404
出版年度：2003
卷号：Jan 30, 2003
出版社：Associated Newspaper Ltd.

O'Toole snubs honorary Oscar

TOM KELLY

PETER O'TOOLE has turned down the offer of an honorary Oscar because he still hopes to win one.

The 70-year-old actor - nominated for seven Academy Awards without success - wrote to organisers to say he was "enchanted" by the gesture, adding: "Since I'm still in the game, and might win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honour until I am 80?"

But Academy president Frank Pierson said the honorary Oscar was a one-off opportunity.

Only Marlon Brando and George C. Scott have refused an Oscar, and no honorary winner has previously turned one down.