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Ahead of the 95th Oscars, here's a look back at the award show's storied history including if an Oscar has been revoked, who has refused a statuette and stars like Will Smith who've been blacklisted.
Nancy Schwartz wrote The Hollywood Writers’ Wars to document the history of the Screen Writers Guild. Members of the guild were blacklisted for their political activities in the 1930s and 40s.
In the history of the Oscars, only three winners have refused to take home their trophies for their outstanding performances and winning categories.
A short account of the blacklisting of dozens of writers and actors from the movie industry in Hollywood amidst the anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and 1950s.
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