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The making of an Oscar Statue

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The Oscar statuette was designed in 1928 by Cedric Gibbons. MGM's chief art director and one of the Academy's founding members. Fredric Hope, who was then Gibbons' assistant, created the original Belgian black marble base, and artist George Stanley sculpted the design. The California Bronze Foundry hand-cast the first statuette in bronze plated with 24-karat gold.Today the statuettes are manufactured in Chicago by R.S. Owens & Company using a metal alloy called britannia. After the initial c...
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