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Why wasn't Bunuel flattered by being nominated for an Oscar for his film, Tristana?

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... nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film, an honor by which the iconoclastic director declined to be flattered. "Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar," he declared ...

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