The 1970 winner for Best Actor was George C Scott in *Patton.* Now that's a diva of a performance if ever there was one, on such a grand scale and full of personal power and guts. But then he was a super mensch for turning it down. This is from Wikipedia:
Scott portrayed George S. Patton in the film *Patton* (1970) and researched extensively for the role, studying films of the general and talking to those who knew him. Scott refused the Oscar nomination for *Patton,* just as he had done for his nomination in 1962 for *The Hustler,* but won the award anyway.
In a letter to the Motion Picture Academy, he stated that he did not feel himself to be in competition with other actors. However, regarding this second rejection of the Academy Award, Scott famously said elsewhere, "The whole thing is a goddamn meat parade. I don't want any part of it."
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