February 28th, 2012 at 8:09 pm -
Fine Autograph and Memorabilia auction dealer Nate Sanders has just sold 15 Academy Award Oscar statues for an astounding
The unprecedented sale of so many Oscars in one auction was reported widely by the media and created quite a controversy withing the entertainment field.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was not happy with the auction off 15 Oscar statutes from such films as “Citizen Kane,” “Little Women”, and “Wuthering Heights”.
The Academy was unable to stop the sale today Nate D. Sanders Auctions because the statuettes were awarded before 1950, when a “winners agreement” was created that banned the sale of Oscars.
“Oscars should be won, not purchased,” the academy said in a statement, mentioned it had no “legal means of stopping the commoditization of these particular statuettes.”
The auction company expects the total Oscar inventory, which includes Herman Mankiewicz’s Oscar for the 1941 screenplay for “Citizen Kane,” to fetch more than $1 million.
Movie Prop Collectors is waiting to report the totals which were to be available any moment, but the bidding has been extend for another 45 min.
The totals are now in and listed below, courtesy of Nate D. Sanders Auctions.
Here are the lot numbers, descriptions, and prices as they come in:
Lot #1 : Norman Taurog best director Oscar for the 1931 film, “Skippy”: $251,644
Lot #2: 1933 Best Picture Oscar for “Cavalcade”: $276,804
Lot #3: Farciot Edouart 1937 Bronze Tablet Oscar for “Scientific or Technical Award” for Dual Screen Transparency Setup: $60,246
Lot #4: Farciot Edouart Special Effects Oscar for the 1938 film, “Spawn of the North”: $80,189
Lot# 5: Oscar for Black & White Photography for the 1939 film, “Wuthering Heights”. $189,063
Lot# 6: Herman Mankiewicz for writing for the film, Citizen Kane.:$490,379
Lot#7: Best Picture Oscar for “How Green Was My Valley, 1941: $228,767
Lot#8: No lot.
Lot #9: 1942 Oscar for Outstanding Transparency Special Effects in “Reap the Wild Wind, awarded to Farciot Edouart: $72,896
Lot #10: No lot.
Lot #11: The First Best Supporting Oscar ever given to Charles Coburn in 1943, for the film, “The More the Merrier”. $142,049
Lot #12: No lot.
Lot #13: 1946 film editing Oscar given to Daniel Mandell for “The Best Years of Out Lives”. $97,023
Lot #14: Best Music Oscar awarded to Hugo Friedhofer for “The Best Years of Our Lives”. $156,259
Lot #15: Color Art Direction Oscar awarded to Paul Groesse for “The Yearling”. $97,023
Lot #16: Oscar for “The Yearling”-Best Cinematography. $106,722
Lot #17: Best Actor Oscar given to Ronald Colman for the 1947 film, “A Double Life”. $171,875
Lot #18: 1949 Oscar for “Little Women”- MGM’s New Technicolor Romance”. Sold for $129,135.
Fine Autograph and Memorabilia auction dealer Nate Sanders has just sold 15 Academy Award Oscar statues for an astounding
