Officially, there was no model for the Oscar. The statuette given to Academy Award winners was designed by Cedric Gibbons, chief art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to the Oscars.

Seth Bogart’s ceramic beefcake body-builder Oscar was also a head-turner. That’s to say nothing of Trulee Hall’s performance art version of the statuette, complete with a bald, sword ...

ROCK TAVERN, New York -- The famous Oscar statues are made at a workshop in ... For the better part of the last decade, they've been made at Urban Art Projects in Orange County.

Per the Academy's website: "Award winners shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the Oscar statuette, nor permit it to be sold or disposed of by operation of law, without first offering to sell it ...