The Academy Awards is Hollywood's most important event, and the Oscars its biggest prize. So who are the winners who declined the vaunted statuette?

London’s BAFTA Awards were hugely predictive, especially in the crafts categories. They anticipated the impact of the international voting bloc at the Oscars. But last year there was unity across geography.

It had received 13 Oscar nominations, the most of any film, and Gascón became the first openly trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar. BAFTA voting had already been going on for a week when a journalist resurfaced tweets,