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 ...

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.

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.

This year Oscar is wearing bronze ... a new company to manufacture the statues for the first time in more than 30 years. The Academy chose a fine art foundry in New York to replicate the original ...