Since 1950 owners or heirs of this object have been legally encumbered from selling it without first offering it for sale to a particular party for the sum of $1. Must be offered back to the Academy Award

Those objects acquired before the 1950 provision have been known to sell for six figure sums.

The material used is made from approximately 93% tin, 5% antimony, and 2% copper. Then a gold plate is applied to the surface.

The first one was use in 1929. Academy Awards were first held at a private gathering of 270 people

They are still used today. Every Year they are awarded

Since 1980 only about 50 are made per YEAR. That's all they need for the ceremony

They are made in the United States.

In 1939 the object was referred to by THIS nick-name.

It is unclear who coined the nick-name but Walt Disney, Betty Davis and husband Harmon OSCAR Nelson, and Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick, who first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette reminding her of her "Uncle Oscar" (a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce)Columnist Qiang Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized the name in his byline, Oscar Pierce may have had a part of it.

You have seen one many times in your life.