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...documentary on a choir's travels across the U.S. earned director Alex Grasshoff an Oscar in 1969. Yet when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences discovered that The Young Americans was first shown in late 1967, making it ineligible for the awards presented in 1969, the Academy took back his golden statuette--the only revocation in the Academy Awards' 80-year history. Though Grasshoff went on to direct several TV shows and the 1973 documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, he never won another Oscar...
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