The statuette is hand-cast and takes 17 people and 35 to 40 hours of total labor.
You can buy a stars-and-stripes-decorated statuette of the Liberty Bell with an eagle perched on it.
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Artist Damien Hirst has designed this year's statuette, adorning it with his trademark spot design.
Rather, a statuette provides buzz and bragging rights for a show, its studio and its host network.
In fact, their careers may even take a bit of a dive after bringing home a statuette.
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After five nominations but no Oscar statuette, Scorsese's patience was finally rewarded in 2007 for The Departed.
It became easy to dupe him with a fake gold ring or an ivory statuette of a bare-breasted Minoan goddess.
"It came true, " the actress said when she collected her statuette.
In a case alongside him stands a 20-inch marble statuette of a much younger Herakles, beardless, sleek and classically muscled in the late Athenian manner.
Hers is not the sort of achievement that will be honored with a statuette Sunday at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, but rest assured she knows the score.
Other favorites to nab a statuette, according to Avello, are Kate Winslet for Best Actress, Mickey Rourke for Best Actor, and Heath Ledger for Best Supporting Actor.
Meryl Streep lost her Jimmy Choo pump as she climbed the stairs at the 2012 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, to claim her statuette.
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The contract isn't broken until the statuette is, say, sold--at which point there's not much to be done against the seller, since he or she no longer owns it.
And there's one more possibility: The searchers over the years could have been looking for a shiny Oscar statuette and they may have overlooked the plaque McDaniel actually received.
When De Sole left, his longtime Italian employees at Gucci showed their devotion with a solid-silver statuette featuring him as a fearless sea captain steering a wheel made of Gucci 'G's.
The riveting film "Precious" yielded a best supporting actress win for African-American performer Mo'Nique, and the first ever statuette for an African-American screenwriter in the best adapted screenplay category went to Geoffrey Fletcher.
Though neither is a first time nominee--Smith nabbed a nod for his title role in Ali and DiCaprio snagged two for What's Eating Gilbert Grape and The Aviator--a win would mark the first time either took home a statuette.
"I think the way that we protect the image of our award and the way we protect the whole notion of the award -- we don't allow that icon, the Oscar statuette, to be used by anyone else in any other context, " says Unger.
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Conversely, works like Orazio Mochi's finely modeled statuette of a "Black Court Jester" (c. 1600-10) and a Flemish or French statuette of a "Black Woman at her Bath" (1580s) reveal the aesthetic delight European sculptors took in the use of bronze with various patinations as a natural medium to represent the variety of African skin tones.
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