Marlon Brando and George C. Scott define celebrities who skipped accepting their awards at the Academy Awards — empty podiums that still echo across five decades of ceremony broadcasts.

Allen earned competitive Oscar wins for Annie Hall and Hannah yet rarely attends the telecast — celebrities who skipped accepting their awards can still legally own statuettes without ever touching them.

Brando won Best Actor for The Godfather then sent Sacheen Littlefeather to decline on stage — among the most famous celebrities who skipped accepting their awards on any global telecast ever aired.

Scott called the Oscars a meat parade and stayed home when Patton won Best Actor — celebrities who skipped accepting their awards rarely match his blunt public contempt for Hollywood pageantry.

Hepburn won four competitive Oscars yet attended the ceremony only once in 1974 — proof that celebrities who skipped accepting their awards can dominate records without red-carpet validation.