are they solid gold. or gold plated? or what?
2007-02-24 06:37:54 · 3 answers · asked by Kelly 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
come on the hepp t....what's it made of then you nutter.
2007-02-24 06:55:01 · update #1
The official name of the Oscar statuette is the Academy Award of Merit. Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13.5 inches (34 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg) and depicts a knight (rendered in Art Deco style) holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers and Technicians.[4]MGM’s art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy[5]by printing the design on scroll. Then sculptor George Stanley sculpted Gibbons' design in clay, and Alex Smith cast the statue in tin and copper and then gold-plated it over a composition of 92.5 percent tin and 7.5 percent copper (Levy 2003). The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base
2007-02-24 06:49:32 · answer #1 · answered by dave a 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
If they were solid gold... I would take a guess... with gold being somewhere around £340 an ounce... at Oscars costing around.... £10,000. Although when celebs hold them they don't seem so heavy. Solid gold would be quite a weight i should imagine.
Hopefully someone else knows more. Good question. (£10K isn't much for movie industry to fork out)
2007-02-24 06:45:28 · answer #2 · answered by Joe Bloggs 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Copper and silver, I think
2007-02-24 06:53:43 · answer #3 · answered by jetmouse77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋