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| Oscar 2014 |
The Oscars are nearing fellas! And at the same time as you go about speculating who's gonna take home the Academy Award this season, would you care to be familiar with a thing or two about the Oscar statuette? From how many statuettes have been awarded in the last nine decades to what in fact went into designing it, here are some interesting facts about the statuette of Oscar you didn't know.
The Oscar statuette depicts a knight holding a sword. It stands on a film reel, which has 5 spokes representing the actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers.
Since 1929, the Academy has awarded about 3000+ statuettes honouring artistes across several categories. If you glance closely, you'll see what may seem like a serial number at the bottom of the statuette.
The Oscar statuette stands tall at 13 and a half inches and weighs 8.5 pounds and its weight is approx. 4 Kgs.
It was production designer and art director Austin Cedric Gibbons who designed the Oscar statuette in 1928. He actually got Emilio Fernandez, a Mexican actor to pose nude and inspire him!
During the time of its beginning, the Oscars were known as the 'Academy Award of Merit'. By 1939, it started to be referred to as the Oscar.
Interestingly, it takes almost a month to create 50 Oscars. And the metal use is gold-plated britannia metal which is a sort of alloy.
The very first Oscar statuette was handed over to Emil Jannings for Best Actor for two films - The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.
For 3 years, around World War II, Oscar statuettes were made of painted plaster as there was a scarcity of the metal. After the war, the Academy invited recipients to come back the plaster figures for gold-plated ones
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