While we are all aware that Leonardo Dicaprio has been asked by the academy to return his Oscar award, we bet you didn’t know the deets! So here goes; Leonardo DiCaprio has been asked to hand over his Oscar award but it’s not the one he won for The Revenant. The award they want back is an Academy Award that actually belonged to Marlon Brando!
Just how the heck did it land up on Leonardo’s shelf right? Well, this award that Marlon won for his 1954 film On the Waterfront, was gifted to Leonardo by a Malaysian financier Jho Low, who is being questioned for fraud and this Oscar had apparently gone missing from Marlon’s home!
We bet you also didn’t know that the Oscar winners don’t really own their statues. The winners have to sign an agreement that states that in case they wish to sell their Oscar statues, they must first offer them to the Academy for $1 or else they cannot keep their trophy!
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Leonardo is not the first celebrity who has been asked to return a trophy, there have been others like Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence, who would be asked by Woody Harrelson to give back her Oscar each time she forgot her lines while filming! But that was all in fun.
This is also not the first time that actors have lost their Oscar Trophies. Earlier this year, Frances McDormand also experienced her Oscar being stolen. Her best actress Oscar for Three Billboards was briefly stolen by a celeb-obsessed guest at the Governor’s Ball and it was Gary Oldman who saved it and returned it to Frances McDormand.
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But the most bizarre incident of an Oscar gone missing has to be when Whoopi Goldberg shipped her Oscar Award to a company in Chicago for getting it cleaned. When the company, R.S. Owens & Company, opened the package, it was empty! The Oscar was finally found at the airport in Ontario, California by a security guard!
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Closer home, our very own country’s first Oscar winner, costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, who got the Oscar for her costume design for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi in 1983, wanted to return the trophy to the Academy! Bhanu was quoted saying she wanted to return the trophy since it had been with her for many years and she wanted to take the Oscar to the Academy for safekeeping.
One can actually make a movie on the ‘kissas’ of the trophy! What say?
