In addition to the standard-size gold statuette, the animation trailblazer was given seven tiny Oscars mounted on a miniature staircase. Mickey’s cartoons have been nominated for nearly a dozen ...

This record includes myriad Oscars for Best Short Subject (Cartoon) for such animated shorts ... The award involved a typical, full-sized Oscar statuette, accompanied by seven small statues ...

This is a religious icon.” O’Brien and Sweeney also said that they wanted to put an apron on the Oscar statue and dress it up like a housewife serving O’Brien leftovers, but the Academy ...

Speaking on his Oscars head writer Mike Sweeney’s podcast Conan Needs a Friend, O’Brien set the scene: he pitched a series of ads in which he and a 9-foot tall Oscar statue were in a domestic ...

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 ...