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 ...

Kedrick Gibbons, who was the art director of American MGM Studios, sketched the Oscar trophy. Its weight is 8.5 pounds, i.e. about 4 kg.

An Academy Award is priceless to those who win.. But when you get down to brass tacks, a shiny Oscar statue costs roughly $400 to make, CBS News reports. Since 2016, the gold-covered trophies have ...