The Academy Awards that are handed out a week from Sunday will look a tiny bit different than they have in recent years.
Starting this year, the Oscar statuettes will be created by New York’s Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry and modeled after a cast bronze statuette from 1929, the first year the awards were held, the Academy has announced. While the size of the trophies, which stand at 13.5 inches and weigh 8.5 pounds, will not change, “subtle features” from the original sculpture will be restored.
Norma Shearer receives a Best Actress Oscar in 1930 (Photo: Getty Images)
The new Oscars are being created using 3D print-outs from a digital scan of that 1929 little gold man; the movie prizes are then molded in wax and eventually cast in liquid bronze and electroplated with a layer of 24-karat gold.
Starting this year, the Oscar statuettes will be created by New York’s Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry and modeled after a cast bronze statuette from 1929, the first year the awards were held, the Academy has announced. While the size of the trophies, which stand at 13.5 inches and weigh 8.5 pounds, will not change, “subtle features” from the original sculpture will be restored.
Norma Shearer receives a Best Actress Oscar in 1930 (Photo: Getty Images)
The new Oscars are being created using 3D print-outs from a digital scan of that 1929 little gold man; the movie prizes are then molded in wax and eventually cast in liquid bronze and electroplated with a layer of 24-karat gold.
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