What is the Oscar Statuette Made Of?

Here is some detailed information about the Oscar statuette presented at the Academy Awards.

- The Oscar statuette is of a knight holding a crusader’s sword and standing on a reel of film.

- The award weighs eight-and-a-half pounds. Each Oscar statuette is thirteen-and-a-half inches tall and is made of gold-plated britannium, which is a metal alloy.

- The Oscars are handmade by R.S. Owens and Company in Chicago.

- To be safe, more Oscars are made than will be needed because the actual number given out isn’t known until the end of the Academy Awards due to possible ties and multiple recipients for some films.

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