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20-year sentence from Hollywood: Why has Richard Gere never won an Oscar?

2026-03-15 22:13:36Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Richard Gere

Famous actor Richard Gere is 76 years old and has played numerous roles in many cult films.

Richard Gere has received various awards and recognition for his work, including a Golden Globe for the 2002 film “Chicago,” but he has never won an Oscar. More precisely, he has never been nominated for this prestigious award.

Although there are many actors who have not been nominated for an Oscar, when it comes to Richard Gere, it is not because he did not deserve the nomination. The answer lies in the fact that the Academy banned this actor for 20 years.

Many didn't know about this, and it all started in 1993, when Gere presented the award for best art direction, which went to Luciana Arrighi and Ian Whittaker for the film "Howard's End."

Everything was fine until Gere decided to ignore the script and criticize the Chinese government for its treatment of the people of Tibet. Richard is known as a follower of Tibetan Buddhism and has criticized the Chinese government for years, and what he did at the awards ceremony led to his being banned from the Oscars for the next 20 years, as well as a lifetime ban from entering China.

Although he failed to be nominated for the award, Gere still appeared at the Oscars twice after the ban. The first time was in 2003, when the film "Chicago," in which he starred, won the award for best picture, and the second time he appeared at the Oscars in 2013.

At the time, he sang the song "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" and presented the awards for best film score and best original song, which he did alongside his "Chicago" co-stars Renée Zellweger, Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta Jones.

"It seems I've been rehabilitated. It seems if you're gone long enough, they forget they banned you," Richard said at the time with a laugh.

This threatened to seriously jeopardize Richard Gere's career, as he was not getting roles in big Hollywood films, and as he himself said, this was a consequence of the financial relationship between Hollywood and China.


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