The Oscar statuette has been honoring the best in film since 1929. But its production has changed over the years. Photographer Christopher Payne goes behind the scenes to see how each award is made.
It’s one of the most famous trophies in the world.But its production has changed over the years.One popular story is that Margaret Herrick, a librarian for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, saw the trophy for the first time and said it resembled her uncle Oscar.
The first Oscar was designed by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley. It depicted, like it does today, a knight holding a crusader’s sword while standing on a film reel. The five spokes on the film reel represent the five original branches of the Academy: actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers.
It is now closer to Stanley’s original Art Deco sculpture, including being cast solid in gold-plated bronze. Each statuette is 13.5 inches tall, and it weighs 8.5 pounds — about the same as a gallon of milk. “There’s no ambiguity,” he said, “and that’s the nice thing about working with something that’s so iconic.”
A look at the statuettes at various steps of the manufacturing process. From left: the 3D-printed model, the wax figure, the bronze statuette just out of the mold, the polished statuette before plating, and then the final gold-plated version. “When that shell is completed, it’s about 3/8ths of an inch thick everywhere surrounding the wax, and it’s perfectly picked up the detail of that wax,” Joyce said.
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