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How to Make an Oscar Statuette

Check out this little vid on how it's done

Brad Brevet
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Published: Thursday, April 17th 2008 at 8:36 AM

The Chicago Tribune has a cool little video feature on how the Oscar statuettes are made by R.S. Owens & Company. It lets us know that each Oscar is made of Britannia pewter-alloy, then they get a dip in copper, then a dip in nickel, then silver flash and then finally 24 carat gold. Apparently it takes about 20 hours to make each statue as each one is made by hand.

Check it out below.

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