#12: Peter O’Toole Thought the Academy Was Retiring Him Early
Eight Best Actor nominations eventually came Peter O’Toole’s way, and none produced the competitive Oscar he wanted. When the Academy proposed an Honorary Award for his career, his first instinct was to tell them to hold onto it. O’Toole was still working and did not appreciate the suggestion that it was already time for a lifetime-achievement farewell. He wrote back asking whether the Academy might postpone the honor until he was 80, giving him another decade to “win the lovely bugger outright,” as he memorably put it.
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