Oscars do not always have the best history to commemorate the best films of a given year, but there is no doubt that winning an Oscar is a big problem. It is essentially a canonization in the annals of the history of the film which gives an overview of the cultural sphere at the time. But while tastes have certainly changed since the inaugural banquet of the ceremony in 1929, most of the recipients received the same gold statue as everyone knows.
The Oscar, weighing 8 ½ pounds and standing 13 ½ inches high, has largely glued to the design of a knight brandishing the sword. According to The AcademyThe gold -plated bronze bastion of cinematographic excellence settles at the top of a film coil, each radius representing the five original branches of the institution. Its form is the result of the artistic director MGM Cedric Gibbons and the sculptor of Los Angeles George Stanley. The simplicity of the price is only equal by its iconographic symbol and there is no reason to change it.
For more than a century, an Oscar has been the reference for the success of the industry – even if it does not always lead to more opportunities. Many have won their own knight of the Hollywood goalkeeper, some by winning several times. But no one has equaled the record currently held by Walt Disney.
Having been nominated 59 times, Disney finally won 26 statues, most of them being for his animated shorts. 22 From these Oscars came from victories in competitive categories, while four of them were honorary distinctions. Among these, one of the most interesting variations in the traditional gold statue that the Academy has ever designed.
A miniature Oscar for each of the seven dwarfs
During the 11th Academy Awards, the child Star Shirley Temple presented to Disney an honorary Oscar commemorating “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. The first complete animated feature – at least in the name of a large studio – had been nominated the previous year for best music (score). But the critical and box office success was so notable that the academy had a special special composed of a traditional Oscar with seven miniatures attached to it on a descending staircase – each representing the seven dwarfs.
I think it should be noted that Disney responds hilarious “I’m so proud, I think I’m going to break.”
All the jokes aside, it is a piece of memories of the history of fairly cool cinema which celebrates an important step in the field of long -lived animation. According to The Walt Disney family museumIt was supposedly the idea of the filmmaker “it’s a wonderful life” (then the president of the academy) Frank Capra. There was another Oscar variant awarded the previous year in the ventriloquist Edward Bergen in the form of a wooden statue. Like her famous fictitious creation, Charlie McCarthy, she could move her mouth.
There is also the question of the Academies’ mid-Taille price, which has been awarded to young players under the age of 18 as a kind of consolation price to be disadvantaged to nominees for adults. Judy Garland (“The Wizard of Oz”), Mickey Rooney (“Babes in Arms”) and Hayley Mills (“Pollyanna”) were part of the special recipient group to the category shutter in 1961.
As for the mini Oscars on the Disney award, this would not be the last time that the animation pioneer will return home.
Walt had a charm bracelet of the Oscars made for his wife
It turns out that when you win an Oscars, you not only receive the Oscar of traditional size, but you can ask for a 1 inch charm with an engraving at the bottom (via D23). Seeing how Disney acquired many victories to his credit, he had the idea of shaping 20 charms in a necklace for his wife, Lillian. The ink artist finally decided that she preferred to be a bracelet instead.
“If I have just received the price of the industry of a life, you bet that I receive an 18 carat mini Oscar to put on my keychain. But a bracelet sounds well too.”
It is an incredibly soft gesture, among others, for the woman who finally helped Disney to appropriate the name “Mickey Mouse”. The “Snow White” bracelet and staircase price are currently hosted at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is currently broadcasting on Disney +.
