Ever wonder where the 50 or so Oscar statuettes handed out each year end up? Where do the winners keep them? Are they in a trophy case at home? Are the on they dashboard of the car? Here's a list of some of the more interesting places stars have kept their Oscars over the years:
Alan Ball keeps his Oscar dressed in a shocking pink Barbie jacket.
Gwyneth Paltrow keeps her Oscar in storage, according to the Scottish Daily Record. "I don’t want that thing in my house," the newspaper quotes Paltrow as saying. "It scares me."
Martin Landau keeps his Oscar in his Los Angeles office surrounded by pictures of Landau with the Reagans and the Clintons.
Elizabeth Taylor, Emma Thompson and Susan Sarandon each keep their Oscar in the bathroom.
Cuba Gooding Jr. keeps his Oscar on top of a wine cabinet.
Jack Nicholson uses one of his Oscars as a hat stand.
Goldie Hawn's Oscar lives in her swish LA meditation room because "trophy rooms are the opposite of me."
Russell Crowe keeps his Oscar in a chicken coop on his Australian ranch and says it's increased the size of his hens' eggs.
When asked where he keeps his 1989 Oscar for My Left Foot, Daniel Day Lewis replied, "It's a friend's apartment because I don't have a place of my own at the moment."
Anna Paquin keeps her Oscar in her bedroom closet so her friends won't see
it and feel the need to comment on it.
Ben Affleck keeps his Oscar on a bookshelf in his one-bedroom apartment.
Richard Taylor is understandably reluctant to reveal where he keeps his Oscar statues these days. He doesn't want to encourage a burglary, he says. "Let's just say they are accessible."
Marcia Gay Harden hasn't found a place for her Oscar yet.
Olympia Dukakis also keeps her Oscar on a bookshelf in her New York home. Two days after winning the Oscar, her home was broken into and the only thing stolen was the Oscar (presumably not yet inscribed with her name, I imagine)--so the one she has now was a replacement from the Academy.
Isaac Hayes displays his Oscar at his restaurant in Memphis. He gave his Grandmother the Oscar immediately after the ceremony, when she was 80; she returned it to him at her 100th birthday and died at age 105 in 1997.
Olivia de Havilland keeps her two Oscars at her Paris home on a bookshelf. She says she suspects it was a French customs official who broke her Oscar for The Heiress when she moved to Paris in the late 50s. She's never had it fixed.
The late Spencer Tracy reluctantly agreed to lend his Oscar for Boys Town to the orphanage that bore its name.
Vivien Leigh was supposed to be a presenter at the Oscars one year, but she had a nervous breakdown and was taken to the hospital. While there, theives broke into her home and stole her Oscar as well as some other valuables.
Ernest Borgnine's Oscar was destroyed in a house fire. The Academy replaced it.
Marlon Brando wrote in his autobiography that he's lost track of his Oscar for On The Waterfront, not having seen it or had any clue to its whereabouts for decades.
Shelley Winters's Oscar for The Diary Of Anne Frank resided, for a number of years, at the shrine to Anne Frank in Amsterdam.
Harold Russell, winner of two Academy Awards (one honorary), auctioned one off in 1991 to pay for his wife's surgery.
During World War II Oscars were made out of plaster to save on metal for the war effort. Barry Fitzgerald, whose Oscar was received during that time, accidentally bumped his statuette with a golf club, knocking the head off. The Academy supplied a metal replacement.
Supposedly, Woody Allen has never picked up any of his Oscars and they remain waiting for him. This legend is brought into question however by a statement he made at the 74th Academy Awards when he said he was afraid, when he got a call from the Academy, that they wanted their Oscars back.
Jimmy Stewert's Oscar for The Philadelphia Story spent many years on display at his father's hardware store in Indiana.
If you've heard of any other interesting places where winners keep (or kept) their Oscars e-mail me. Please include a source if possible.
