Twenty years ago, Garth Brooks had his own brush with awards show infamy at the 1996 American Music Awards. Music awards shows have had similarly strange controversies, like when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech on behalf of Beyoncé at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
When you think about celebrities not accepting an award, Marlon Brando declining his Best Actor Oscar for his work in The Godfather (1972), and sending Sacheen Littlefeather to the stage to protest Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans instead, is probably what comes to mind.
