Each of these filmmakers won for writing and directing the year's Best Picture except for
Billy Wilder
Francis Ford Coppola
James L. Brooks
James Cameron*
Cameron won Academy Awards for directing and producing TITANIC, but a nomination never surfaced for the film's screenplay.
Marlon Brando sent a representative to refuse his 1972 Leading Actor award.  How did she identify herself?
Pocahontas
Sacheen Littlefeather*
Sacagawea
Sasquatch
Dressed in Native American attire, the actress (whose real name was Maria Cruz) read a political statement and quietly left the stage.
