statuette

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But 35-year-old Talankin's film -- based on hours of footage he had smuggled out of Russia -- beat the odds and took home the statuette instead on Sunday.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

"I've already dusted off the shelf for it," he told AFP in January, referring to the golden statuette that he ended up taking.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Academy librarian Margaret Herrick is said to have remarked that the golden statuette resembled her uncle Oscar.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

In the days after the fires, a dramatic image of a charred Oscar lying in the rubble circulated widely on social media, with some posts claiming it showed Robert Redford’s statuette destroyed in the disaster.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

She could not find, between herself and the African statuette, or totem pole, on which he gazed with such melancholy wonder, any point of contact.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin