{"id":234843,"date":"2021-04-24T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/heres-what-happens-when-an-oscar-statue-is-lost-or-stolen\/"},"modified":"2021-04-24T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T17:33:36","slug":"heres-what-happens-when-an-oscar-statue-is-lost-or-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-what-happens-when-an-oscar-statue-is-lost-or-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"#Here’s what happens when an Oscar statue is lost or stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Here’s what happ<\/a>ens when an Oscar statue is lost or stolen<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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When\u00a0Whoopi Goldberg won a Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for \u201cGhost,\u201d she surely had no idea her Oscar would end up in a trash can.<\/p>\n

Goldberg had sent it to R.S. Owens & Company, the statue\u2019s Chicago-based manufacturer, for a cleaning. But the box, which had been opened and resealed, arrived empty. The award was later found in a California airport garbage bin and the thief was never apprehended.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s interesting that stolen Oscars sometimes wind up in the garbage,\u201d Jim Piazza, co-author of \u201cAcademy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History<\/a>,\u201d told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s as if they\u2019re either priceless or worthless. The thieves, I think, tend to get cold feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the first ceremony took place in 1929, some 80 Oscars have been lost<\/a> or stolen. All but 11 have been found, materializing in trash cans and auction catalogs.<\/p>\n

In more than a dozen instances, the trophies \u2014 gold-plated over bronze, standing more than 13 inches tall and weighing in at 8\u00bd pounds \u2014 were stolen by bona fide criminals. Such was the case in 2000, when a pallet of 55 uninscribed Oscars disappeared from a California loading dock.<\/p>\n

They had been shipped there from R.S. Owens\u2019 Chicago headquarters and should have been delivered to the Academy before the awards ceremony. Instead, the thieves apparently chickened out, and the statues ended up in a supermarket dumpster in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\"Jared
Among those whose Academy Awards have gone missing, Jared Leto has no clue where his is.<\/figcaption>
FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A junkman named Willie Fulgear found 52 of the mementos, turned them in for a $50,000 reward and saved that year\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n

The thieves, employees of the trucking company who stole the boxes without knowing their contents, were arrested and pleaded no contest; one was sentenced to six months in prison, the other received probation. Two of the errant statuettes remain at large; one surfaced in 2003 during a Florida drug bust.<\/p>\n

The first Academy Award thought to have been swiped was at the ninth annual ceremony, in 1938, held at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Alice Brady won a Best Supporting Actress plaque (trophies weren\u2019t awarded in supporting categories until 1943) for her role in \u201cIn Old Chicago.\u201d But she was bedridden at home with a bum ankle and a seemingly unknown man accepted it in her stead.<\/p>\n

Rumors swirled that the guy was an intruder and that he had kept the award. Soon after, when Brady was on the mend, the Academy hosted a cute makeup ceremony in which she was presented with a \u201cnew\u201d Oscar. Common wisdom held that she was given a replacement, and Brady, who died of cancer just a year later, never got a chance to comment.<\/p>\n

In 2008, what was thought to be her replacement Oscar surfaced at Heritage Auction House in LA, going for $59,750. The seller was the William and Alice Brady Estate Archive.But according to research later done by Academy librarian Libby Wertin, the award auctioned off was actually the original. There never was a replacement. The so-called mystery man who claimed it was Henry King, director of \u201cIn Old Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Katharine
Katharine Hepburn\u2019s trophy disappeared from an exhibit.<\/figcaption>
Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He delivered it, uninscribed, to Brady, who then returned it to the Academy for customization. That\u2019s the one that was then presented to her in the makeup ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the lore, the estate would have gotten less for [Brady\u2019s] award,\u201d Oscars expert Olivia Rutigliano<\/a>, a Columbia University Ph.D. candidate who is \u00addevoted to unraveling Academy Award mysteries, told The Post. \u201cAnd now, with it being the original, the price goes up again. The more stories there are, the more it is worth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members\u00a0of the Brady estate were lucky that they even got to unload the trophy. Oscars given out after 1951 cannot be legally sold.<\/p>\n

This mandate proved tricky for the estate of Mary Pickford, who received a Best Actress Oscar in 1930 for \u201cCoquette.\u201d Unfortunately for her family, the old Hollywood legend also received an honorary Academy Award in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was when she signed an agreement to never sell any Academy Award,\u201d Darren Julien, president of Julien\u2019s Auctions<\/a>, told The Post. The stipulation \u00adextended to her heirs as well. \u201cHer estate tried to sell it, the Academy sued and the estate of Mary Pickford lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the auction house\u2019s own interest in gray-area goods: \u201cWe never sell them,\u201d Julien explained, \u201cbecause we always honor the Academy\u2019s request and value our relationship with them over anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jeff
Jeff Bridges has no idea where his award ended up.<\/figcaption>
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Despite the difficulty of selling hot, or even lukewarm, Oscars, some people just can\u2019t help but nab them. Olympia Dukakis had her 1988 Best Supporting Actress award (for \u201cMoonstruck\u201d) swiped right out of her Montclair, NJ, kitchen. The sticky-fingered crook \u2014 who was never caught \u2014 tried to collect a ransom, then went silent. Dukakis bought a $78 replacement from the Academy and the original has yet to resurface.<\/p>\n

Frances McDormand barely had a chance to showboat her Best Actress trophy for \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\u201d in 2018 before it was snatched at the Governors Ball after the big show. The alleged thief, Terry Bryant, who claimed to be an invited guest, had the temerity to exit with McDormand\u2019s Oscar held high, announcing, \u201cWe did it.\u201d He was arrested<\/a>, the statue was returned, Bryant claimed to have not known that the Oscar was real and charges were dropped.<\/p>\n

Still at large: the Best Supporting Actress plaque won in 1940 by Hattie McDaniel \u2014 the first black person to earn an Academy Award, for her portrayal of Mammy in \u201cGone with the Wind\u201d \u2014 which was donated to Howard University and disappeared during a civil-rights protest.<\/p>\n

Steven Spielberg had to have earned brownie points when he stepped up and took three trafficked Oscars out of general<\/a> circulation.In a private sale, the director paid $607,500 for Clark Gable\u2019s 1934 \u201cIt Happened One Night\u201d Best Actor award and $578,000 for Bette Davis\u2019s 1938 prize for \u201cJezebel;\u201d then Spielberg bought a second of Davis\u2019 Best Actress statues (1935\u2019s \u201cDangerous\u201d) for $180,000 at a Sotheby\u2019s auction in 2002.<\/p>\n

\"Whoopi
Whoopi Golberg\u2019s trophy vanished while out for cleaning.<\/figcaption>
Joe Schildhorn, Matteo Prandoni,<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSpielberg returned them to the Academy,\u201d Piazza said. Also through Sotheby\u2019s, in 1999, \u201cMichael Jackson purchased producer David O. Selznick\u2019s \u201cGone with the Wind\u201d Oscar for a record-setting $1.54 million. Since the singer\u2019s death, Piazza said, \u201cnobody
knows where it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sometimes, though, an errant Oscar receives its Hollywood ending. Such was the case for Margaret O\u2019Brien\u2019s miniature-sized juvenile Oscar (given out sporadically from 1935 until 1961) for \u201cMeet Me in St. Louis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMargaret had an awards room in her family\u2019s Beverly Hills home and one day the maid offered to take three awards for a good polishing.<\/p>\n

Margaret\u2019s mother agreed to that but the maid was never seen again,\u201d Randal Malone, an actor and current-day manager of O\u2019Brien, told The Post. \u201cThat happened in 1958, when Margaret would have been around 20. Then in 1995, the award turned up in an auction catalog.\u201d It was expected to fetch at least $10,000.<\/p>\n

Before that happened, the Oscar somehow ended up at a Pasadena flea market<\/a>. \u201cMost people thought it was a prop,\u201d said Malone.<\/p>\n

But a pair of sports-memorabilia collectors took a shot at it being something more and bought it for $500. After learning that their find had been stolen, the two returned it to O\u2019Brien and the Academy gave them tickets to that year\u2019s Oscars ceremony.<\/p>\n

\"Matt
Matt Damon\u2019s award was \u201cmisplaced\u201d after a flood in his apartment.<\/figcaption>
Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThey were happy that it found its way back to Margaret but were chagrined for themselves,\u201d Malone added. \u201cThey thought they had found their treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

And\u00a0yet, for a trophy that thieves value enough to steal, Oscar doesn\u2019t always get a lot of respect from the stars who win him.<\/p>\n

Susan Sarandon and Kate Winslet keep theirs in their bathrooms. And Jared Leto, who won Best Supporting Actor for \u201cDallas Buyers Club\u201d in 2014, doesn\u2019t even know where his Oscar is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, I found out that it\u2019s been missing for, like three years, and I didn\u2019t know that,\u201d the actor revealed in January on \u201cThe Late Late Show With James Corden.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had moved houses in LA and .\u2009.\u2009. it somehow just magically kind of disappeared .\u2009.\u2009. I hope it\u2019s in good hands \u00adwherever it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those who know Leto aren\u2019t surprised. \u201cFrom what I know of Jared, the award probably doesn\u2019t mean that much to him,\u201d Solon Bixler, who played guitar in Leto\u2019s band Thirty Seconds to Mars, told The Post. \u201cI\u2019d say he cares more about the work than about the accolades.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s interesting that stolen Oscars sometimes wind up in the garbage . . . The thieves, I think, tend to get cold feet<\/p>\n

Academy Awards historian Jim Piazza<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone, who has brought Leto to her clients\u2019 shows, told The Post: \u201cI would be disappointed if he knew it was in his garage or somewhere. It\u2019s totally on brand for Jared Leto to not know where his Oscar is.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in good company. Angelina Jolie lost track of hers (Best Supporting Actress 2000 for \u201cGirl, Interrupted\u201d) after giving it to her now-deceased mother. Jeff Bridges has no clue what happened to his trophy (Best Actor 2010 for \u201cCrazy Heart\u201d).<\/p>\n

Katharine Hepburn has won more (four) acting Oscars than anyone else, but never bothered to claim even one at the big ceremony. So it\u2019s only fitting that one went missing while on display in a Guinness World Records exhibit at the Empire State Building.Matt Damon can\u2019t find his \u2014 a 1998 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for \u201cGood Will Hunting\u201d \u2014 either.<\/p>\n

As he told the London Daily Express: \u201cI know it ended up at my apartment in New York, but unfortunately we had a flood when one of the sprinklers went off when my wife and I were out of town and that was the last I saw of it.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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