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As we all know, acting is a precarious, roller-coaster type business. The Meryl Streeps, Jack Nicholsons, and Brad Pitts are few and far between. Most actors or actress will hit at least an occasional “dry spell,” if not a permanent one. For a very select few, a seemingly easy solution to help get them through the dry spell financially might be to sell their Oscar statuette. I mean, it’s just otherwise collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. Given only a little over 3,000 Oscars have been awarded since 1929 and there are countless collectors and movie fanatics out there, you’d think an Oscar statuette would be worth a small fortune… right?Alas, not so. At least, not legally.Every Academy Award nominee since the mid-twentieth century is required to sign a “winner’s agreement” contract in which they must agree that neither they nor their heirs will ever sell their Academy Award without first offering to sell it back to the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences for $1.00.Yes, you read that correctly- one measly buck. This, despite the fact that the Oscar statuette in materials alone is reportedly worth about $900, mainly thanks to its relatively thick gold plating.This forced contract is primarily the Academy’s way of controlling the acquisition of its trophies. They want to make sure no Oscar arrives in the hands of private collectors- only those who earned them or their heirs. As one Academy representative noted, “They’re not tchotchkes to be bought off of a shelf.”So what happens if someone refuses to sign the agreement? The Academy will take back the statuette itself.It wasn’t always this way, however. Much to the chagrin of the Academy, those givenOscars before the 1951 award ceremony were under no such agreement and many of those have been sold over the years. For instance, Orson Welles’ heirs were able to sell his 1941 Oscar forCitizen Kanein 2011 for $861,542 (about$930,064 today), despite the Academy previously attempting to bar them from doing so via a lawsuit. But, in the end, the courts ruled that as Welles had signed no such agreement, his heirs were free to sell the statuette. Other heirs who’ve tried similar sales on the pre-1950s statuettes have had mixed results in winning such court battles against the Academy.Despite the Academy being extremely aggressive combating any attempts to sellany Oscars, regardless of era, it is generally estimated that at minimum 150 Academy Awards have been sold since the first Oscar ceremony in 1929, out of over 3,000 awarded. Many of these are sold at least semi-secretly so that neither the buyer nor the seller has to deal with the Academy’s wrath.So of the known sales, how much do theseawards typically sell for at auction? All amounts, ranging from a minimum typically in the tens of thousands of dollars range on up. For reference, the most expensive of the known sales is the 1939 Academy Award for Best Picture forGone with the Wind. This was sold to Michael Jackson in 1999 for an astounding $1.5 million (about $2.2 milliontoday).Steven Spielberg also famously bought Clark Gable’s Best Actor trophy forIt Happened One Nightand Bette Davis’ BestActress trophy forJezebelfor a combined total of about $1.2 million. However, this didn’t upset anyone at the Academy because Spielberg promptly turned aroundand donated them to said Academy. A fewother actors have also purchased Oscars in similar ways and donated them back to the Academy.

culled from http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/03/much-oscar-worth/

why is she not sweating? maybe she just posed for a pic.

flyingdutchman:
I'M BAACCK!!! WHO DEY TALK THERE! ***sends lightening to roast his ass

na the stone con turn you to amadioha so? eeya e be like say na grass dem go take sew dat ur costume.

Chukzyfcb:
You seem to be an ardent follower of his boxing career. Thanks for the added info.hopefully, he could go fo the world heavyweight title. I'd like to see him fight the latest kid on the block. Tyson fury. It'll be mad mad fight.... Two giants with impressive stats and known for their knock-out records. It'll be bad a.s.s!!!

depends on the outcome of klitchko v. Fury, sincerely I hope fury beats him again, both brothers deserve some "rest".

who says condoms and contraceptives are not blessings in this era, yet some useless people just decide to get pregnant and breed societal problems in human form.

flyingdutchman:
IF I GO TOUCH THAT STONE, I GO TURN TO SUPER HERO SHEY? ****runs to tailor to sew a costume

see your life oga, y u no first touch am before you go sew costume? people for don use the stone power generate light finish before you come back oo!

I'm sure some people want to be "settled " before releasing the stone, naija pipo.

ceejay80s:
She never intended to kill, it was an accident and it can happen to anybody,
It happened to My colleague in the office , his girlfriend was still learning how to drive, one day the guy left his car at home and warned her not to touch the car key, the guy came to the office and called her on phone again and told her not to drive the car but the devil as usual pushed her, and she killed a man with the car , at the end it was settled after months of begging at the police station

your colleagues girlfriend needs to be delivered first by TB Joshua then sentenced to do time at ikoyi prisons.

let's play a game, it's called take sniper and I'll resurrect you.

that woman in the second picture really looks like a serpent.

baba just do something about your fellow cowboys or is it herdsmen they call them so we don't have a bloody easter celebration.

oga femi, if you want the easter chicken come and collect it.

nnokwa042:
na your type they make our governors dey believe say dem work,so it has gotten to a stage ur comparing Lagos to new York or Tokyo my gwaad ok ibadan will square it up with Vienna or Rome in old citis battle I laugh in jalingo,Lagos of mushin bariga ikeja ebute metta oshodi ajamgbadi ajegunle okoko ketu orire mile12 mile 2 ejigbo agege iyanupaja ,Jesus Tokyo nd New York don suffer

can you just shut it already? who is comparing lagos and NY I'm just telling you that even the most brilliant of raw pictures are edited. see as hin leave express enter bush.......utter crap!!!

BumBae:
Check the side of your legs even you bum you'll find little ones there

If u dont u must be extremely skinny ie skin n bone no body fat ..
The fact that you've grown from baby to boy there will be some its normal tho you might not notice ...

Yes i do a little but i know its there but not visible to others ..

checked didn't see any,and I'm not thin I'm more of the luis suarez body structure.

Sunnycliff:
If Moses had scored all those missed chances what would the one goal mean? Abeg the Egyptians you saw yesterday you will see again tomorrow!

on Tuesday you mean

MrScript:
Hmmm... Picture editing things

so those ones from New york and Tokyo are not edited? SMH.

BumBae:
Common guys most ladies have stretch mark now even guys, even skinny ones

do you have stretch marks, cos I dont

mamagee3:
[color=deeppink]Hit "Like" if you like my profile photo.[/color]

I believe you need to see a shrink also a stretch-markologist won't be bad...(if anything like that exists).

conspiracy theory, we dey watch na.

KingCheezyPuff:
1) Beauty standards say bigger breast an butts are better.
Standards set by various media
platforms
an big name Stars/Celebrities
2) Some dudes think this is the ultimate bae,the woman that's curvy all over our big in 1of these 2 areas.
You just said yerself They want this in the bold.

3) They wanna look good,this is their personal (or borrowed) beauty ideal an they wanna be it
4) It's "womanly" ta be shapely.

It only stands ta reason that women would seek ta "fix" themselves.
We aren't all secure in ourselves.
Breast & butt pads
Implaints
Butt Injections
Are all suppose ta be "solutions/fixs" for all this

Yes.But who's advertising 'love yerself the way you are'
As there are ads for these "fixes"
Some say "have self esteem"
"Don't let what others say?think effect you" (In this case the desire of dudes ta have endowed chicks)
All don't have or do this
But they can be taught too.

hi cheezypuff, could you stop using "ta" instead of "to" it really affects the quality of your comments...(drives me nuts too). thanks but I doubt if you 'll heed my advice.

the deputy governor's slap reminds me of Egypts last minute goal against Nigeria, those kain unexpected slap, you go just weak. we need a better sauce though

I was actually waiting for the moment when the nonsense defence would lose concentration, I didn't know it would come so late.

naturefellow:
Case 39, anybody?

yeeeeeaaaaah! present sir! case 39 na movie abeg, small girl wey get big shadow

naturefellow:
Case 39, anybody?

yeeeeeaaaaah! present sir! case 39 na movie abeg, small girl wey get big shadow.

vivaciousvivi:
Nothing in the Ring until you have seen Paranormal Activity 1 to3, The Excorsim of Emily Rose, Rosemary's Baby and Mama. Yet Horror remains my best genre

Thanks Explorers. I have now finished "exploring" all your threads

thanks for adding exorcism of Emily rose very nice movie considering the fact that it's based on true life events. Explorers you can add the monsters in species 1-3, drag me to hell is another nice horror movie (I found it funny in some parts though)

why dem con give am rain boot na? or is he an "amphibious " mercenary

her face is alright, but how old can she be that her breasts have lost its self esteem that much, I would be suprised if she doesn't have like 3 kids already.

this Nigerian brand of democracy stinks to the high heavens, we were never mature for independence neither were are we mature for democracy, it's just that the military was plainly stupid and lacked national spirit when they had the chance.

make una wait abeg! so after paying N100,000 and spending time in kirikiri they would still expect the woman to fix the "devilish magistrates " car? abeg we need the so called magistrates picture, make we make am popular.

too bad, hatred and intolerance will only lead to war, strife ,hunger, bloodshed among other ills. we need to free our oil sector from corruption while paying serious attention to agriculture. thanks for the history lesson OP.