Meet the Oscars, Chicago 2009

For the first time, Chicago will host a "Meet the Oscars" exhibit, at which fans will be able to hold an actual Oscar statuette. “Meet the Oscars, Chicago” will open Friday, February 13, at The Shops at North Bridge on Michigan Avenue, and will run through Sunday, February 22, the night of the 2009 Academy Awards ceremony. Hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free.
Chicago, by the way, is the only city to host a “Meet the Oscars” exhibit this year.
As per the Academy’s press release, “Meet the Oscars, Chicago” will feature "a display of Oscars in various stages of completion, as they [...]

by Andre Soares | January 14, 2009   
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Meet the Oscars, New York 2008

The exhibition "Meet the Oscars, New York" will display 50 new Oscar statuettes, two inscribed Academy Awards, and one Oscar for the public to hold. The East Coast version of "Meet the Oscars" will take place at the Times Square Studios in New York City from Friday, February 15, through Saturday, February 23. The exhibition will be open daily from noon to 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The Oscar won by Gary Cooper for his performance as the title character in Sergeant York (1941, right) will be on display alongside Thelma Schoonmaker’s Academy Award for Film Editing for The Departed (2006).
Cooper and Schoonmaker each have won three Academy Awards.
Gary Cooper won his second Oscar for the 1952 Western High [...]

by Andre Soares | January 31, 2008   
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Meet the Oscars

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The fifty Oscar statuettes to be presented at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony next February 24 — the one above is not one of them — will be on display at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Meet the Oscars" exhibition beginning Friday, February 1. The exhibition will be located on the fourth level of the Hollywood & Highland Center — in Hollywood, where else? — through Saturday, February 23. Admission is free.
Visitors will be given the chance of holding an actual Oscar statuette while pretending they are Tom Cruise or Cameron Diaz (neither of whom has ever won an Academy Award). The exhibition will also feature interactive Oscar trivia kiosks, the Honorary Award that will [...]

by Andre Soares | January 18, 2008   
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