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 ...

Officially, there was no model for the Oscar. The statuette given to Academy Award winners was designed by Cedric Gibbons, chief art director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to the Oscars.

And the Oscar goes to... Wait, wait, wait... The statue was originally named the Academy Award of Merit. The legend goes that former Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, after seeing the statue for ...

That's according to Academy regulations, which state that winners "shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the Oscar statuette, nor permit it to be sold or disposed of by operation of law ...

Max and more The Oscar Statuette, officially named the Academy Award of Merit, stands as one of the most iconic symbols of achievement in the entertainment industry but what is the history behind ...