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Who is the Oscar statue modeled after? Meet the man who claimed it was him
Officially, there was no model for the Oscar. The statuette given to Academy Award winners was designed by Cedric Gibbons, chief art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to the Oscars.
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From Fabulous to Phallic: How 13 Artists Reimagined the Oscar
Seth Bogart’s ceramic beefcake body-builder Oscar was also a head-turner. That’s to say nothing of Trulee Hall’s performance art version of the statuette, complete with a bald, sword ...
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Why is it called an Oscar? Fun facts about the Academy Awards statuette
Oscars are awarded in Los Angeles but made in New York. The statues are cast by Polich Tallix fine art foundry in Hudson Valley. It reportedly costs around $400 to make an Oscar. It takes three ...
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What a golden cast: The art of making Oscar statuettes
ROCK TAVERN, New York -- The famous Oscar statues are made at a workshop in ... For the better part of the last decade, they've been made at Urban Art Projects in Orange County.
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Behind-the-scenes look into how the Oscar statues are made in New York
ORANGE COUNTY, New York -- The famous Oscar statues are made at a workshop in ... For the better part of the last decade, they've been made at Urban Art Projects in Orange County.