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Mar 10, 2023 · The golden Oscars statue, designed by Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by George Stanley, was inspired by Mexican actor and director Emilio Fernandez.
Mar 11, 2024 · Cillian Murphy has become the first Irish-born actor to win a best actor Oscar at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles after picking up the golden statuette for his masterful performance as J...
Jan 15, 2019 · Here are 12 facts you didn't know about the famed golden statuette, including why the statue is holding a sword, who Oscar was, and whether or not you're allowed to sell one.
- Leah Silverman
- Contributor
- How Much Is An Oscar Statue Worth?
- Do People Ever Sell Their Oscars?
- Are Oscars Ever Sold illegally?
- Are Oscar Statues Made of Real Gold?
- How Much Does It Cost to Make An Oscar?
- Where Are The Oscars Made?
- How Much Does An Oscar weigh?
- Why Is The Academy Award called The Oscar?
According to the Academy, its highest honor is worth a lowly buck! That’s because the group’s own regulationsstate that any Oscar awarded after 1950 cannot be sold by its recipient or his or her heirs without first offering to sell it back to the Academy for $1; run afoul of that rule and you may have to forsake your Oscar altogether. Related: Most...
Oscar trophies that were handed out before 1950 get sold aplenty—and for a lot more than a mere dollar. Deadline has noted that magician David Copperfield, for example, turned a tidy profit when he paid $232,000 in 2003 for the Oscar won by Casablanca director Michael Curtizin the 1940s, then auctioned it off for more than $2 million 10 years later...
As for post-1950 Oscars, Forbesonce estimated that about 75 of them have allegedly been sold in “gray-market sales” on the down-low.
Like so much about Hollywood, Oscar’s golden beauty is only skin deep. Today’s Oscars are “solid bronze and plated in 24-karat gold,” according to the official Oscars website. Also, fun fact: “Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years.”
Numerous outletshave estimated that, based on the value of bronze and gold, each statue is worth about $400.
Far away from Tinseltown, believe it or not! “New golden statuettes are cast by UAP Polich Tallix fine art foundry in New York’s Hudson Valley,” Oscars.org reports. More specifically, Polich Tallix is located about 70 or so miles north of New York City in the teensy hamlet of Rock Tavern (population: 2,034). However, the UAP Polich Tallix websiteno...
“A robust 8½ pounds,” according to Oscars.org. For reference, that’s about the same as a gallon of milk or water.
Film folklore has it that Margaret Herrick, who served as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's first-ever librarian (and eventually its executive director), remarked sometime in the 1930s that the statuette "resembled her Uncle Oscar." The Academy officially adopted the "Oscar" moniker in 1939, but the statue's full, technical name rema...
The statuettes are solid bronze and plated in 24-karat gold. Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
Mar 9, 2023 · Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky, pictured here with model and socialite Vikki Dougan in 1955, claims he invented the Oscar nickname while writing about the Academy Awards.
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Goldberg is the first African American winner, the first to win the Oscar as their second award, and the third person after Audrey Hepburn (1954) and Marvin Hamlisch (1974) to win two of their qualifying awards in the same year (she won both her Tony and her first competitive Emmy in 2002).
