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That little gold man bestowed as filmmaking's highest honor at the Academy Awards has a name. It's Oscar. Yes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the governing body for the glitzy ...
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 ...
The Oscar statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, [18] is given to winners of each year's awards. Made of gold-plated bronze on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34.3 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.9 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes represent ...
The Nobel Prize medal is rarer — something like a thousand of them awarded in 120-plus years, and made of actual gold — but not one person in a hundred would recognize Alfred Nobel’s ...
For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born outside the United States. [13] Best Actor winner Michael Douglas became the second person to win Oscars for both acting and producing, albeit the first person to win the awards for two separate films and in different years.
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Beginning with the 7th Academy Awards, held in February 1935, each year's awards are presented for films that were first shown during the full preceding calendar year from January 1 to December 31 in Los Angeles County, California.
There’s no cash prize for winning an Oscar—and the 24-karat gold-plated statuette that winners take home is only valued at about $400, according to WalletHub. But the lucky winners of the Best ...