The trophy's origins are clear. MGM art director Cedric Gibbons sketched the figure of an impressively ripped knight as an art crusader for the first Academy Awards in 1929. (The design wasn't ...

And the Oscar goes to ... The year prior, he won an honorary award for his career. William Hurt took home the coveted trophy in 1986 for his role as Brazilian prisoner Luis Molina in Kiss ...

However, the Oscars trophies haven’t always been made the same. Due to a metal shortage during World War II, the statuettes were briefly made of painted plaster for three years. Once the war ...