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    LIGHTS, CAMERA, MISSING IN ACTION

    A brief history of lost Oscars
    by Jackie Mogensen Feb 27, 2018 2 minutes

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has handed out 3,097 Oscar statuettes to date, and 79 have starred in various misadventures. Roll camera...

    1929: First Academy Awards ceremony: Winners get a gold-plated bronze statuette (13.5 inches tall, 8.5 pounds) depicting “a knight standing on a reel of film gripping a crusader’s sword.”

    1938: The public is in a tizzy amid rumors that a mystery man came onstage and

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