{"id":9025,"date":"2012-02-28T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T01:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2012-03-01T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:16:43","slug":"nate-d-sanders-auctions-sells-14-oscars-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/nate-d-sanders-auctions-sells-14-oscars-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate D. Sanders Auctions: 15 Oscars hammer over $2.5 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Fine Autograph and Memorabilia auction dealer Nate Sander<\/em><\/strong><\/a>s has just sold 15 Academy Award Oscar statues for an astounding<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/del><\/p>\n

The totals are now in and listed below, courtesy of Nate D. Sanders Auctions<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Lot #1 :<\/strong><\/span> Norman Taurog best director Oscar for the 1931 film, “Skippy”: $251,644<\/div>\n
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Lot #2:<\/strong><\/span> 1933 Best Picture Oscar for “Cavalcade”: $276,804<\/div>\n
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Lot #3:<\/strong><\/span> Farciot Edouart 1937 Bronze Tablet Oscar for “Scientific or Technical Award” for Dual Screen Transparency Setup: $60,246<\/div>\n
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Lot #4:<\/strong><\/span> Farciot Edouart Special Effects Oscar for the 1938 film, “Spawn of the North”: $80,189<\/div>\n
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Lot# 5:<\/strong><\/span> Oscar for Black & White Photography for the 1939 film, “Wuthering Heights”. $189,063<\/div>\n
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Lot# 6<\/strong><\/span>: Herman Mankiewicz for writing for the film, Citizen Kane.:$490,379<\/div>\n
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Lot#7:<\/strong><\/span> Best Picture Oscar for “How Green Was My Valley, 1941: $228,767<\/div>\n
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Lot#8:<\/strong><\/span> No lot.<\/div>\n
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Lot #9:<\/strong><\/span> 1942 Oscar for Outstanding Transparency Special Effects in “Reap the Wild Wind, awarded to Farciot Edouart: $72,896<\/div>\n
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Lot #10:<\/strong><\/span> No lot.<\/div>\n
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Lot #11:<\/strong><\/span> The First Best Supporting Oscar ever given to Charles Coburn in 1943, for the film, “The More the Merrier”. $142,049<\/div>\n
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Lot #12:<\/strong><\/span> No lot.<\/div>\n
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Lot #13:<\/strong><\/span> 1946 film editing Oscar given to Daniel Mandell for “The Best Years of Out Lives”. \u00a0$97,023<\/div>\n
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Lot #14:<\/strong><\/span> Best Music Oscar awarded to Hugo Friedhofer for “The Best Years of Our Lives”. $156,259<\/div>\n
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Lot #15:<\/strong><\/span> Color Art Direction Oscar awarded to Paul Groesse for “The Yearling”. $97,023<\/div>\n
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Lot #16:<\/strong><\/span> Oscar for “The Yearling”-Best Cinematography. \u00a0$106,722<\/div>\n
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Lot #17:<\/strong><\/span> Best Actor Oscar given to Ronald Colman for the 1947 film, “A Double Life”. \u00a0$171,875<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lot #18:<\/strong><\/span> 1949 Oscar for “Little Women”- MGM’s New Technicolor Romance”. Sold for $129,135.<\/div>\n
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