Jared Leto clearly remembers the night he won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in 2013 Dallas Buyers Club. When it comes to what he did with his trophy, not so much.
“You know, I found out he’s been missing for three years and I didn’t know that,” said Leto on Tuesday The Late Late Show with James Corden. “I don’t think anyone wanted to tell me. But I had moved out of LA and when we moved, somehow, it just magically disappeared. “
Leto added that he expects the statuette to be treated with care … wherever he is.
“I think it’s a possibility [that someone else has it]”Said Leto. “It’s not the kind of thing that someone accidentally throws in the trash.”
While it seems unlikely that a star will be separated from his Oscar, the scenario has played out many times since the Oscar ceremony was first held in 1929.
Like Leto, Jennifer Lawrence and Matt Damon lost sight of the trophies. Angelina Jolie, who won for her participation in 1999 as a supporting actress Girl interrupted, allegedly said already in 2009 that he had not seen hers.
Meanwhile, the late Marlon Brando had none of the two Oscars he won when he wrote his 1994 autobiography, Songs my mother taught me. He included a picture of you holding the first one, which he won at the 1955 ceremony for By the sea, and wrote that it somehow “ended up in a London auction house”. Brando also did not have the second, which he won in 1973 The Godfather and Sacheen Littlefeather rejected on his behalf. “I don’t know what happened to that Oscar,” he wrote in his book. “Motion Picture Academy may have sent it to me, but if it did, I don’t know where it is now.”
Some other recipients lost their gold to the theft, at least temporarily.
It happened to Hattie McDaniel – the first black person to be nominated for an Oscar – after she won the best actress victory for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind. McDaniel donated the award to Howard University towards the end of his life. (She died in 1952.) Then, in the 1960s or 1970s, he disappeared from the university’s fine arts center. Nobody knows for sure if it was just lost, because the prize was a plaque at that time, or if it was an intentional theft, perhaps by someone dissatisfied with the controversial role that McDaniel played as a servant.
In 1989, Olympia Dukakis – the previous year’s best supporting actress for Moonstruck – was away from home when someone invaded and took only his Oscar. Surprisingly, the thief left the nameplate. He then tried to sell the rest back to her, but she ended up buying a new one from the gym for about $ 78.
Whoopi Goldberg held the trophy she took home for best supporting actress in the 1990s Ghost for more than a decade. The problem occurred when she sent him back to the Academy for maintenance. Strangely, the box sent by Goldberg reached its empty destination and someone found the trophy in the trash near the place where she had sent it. The theory was that the thief did not realize that each Oscar has a serial number, so it would be difficult to pawn.
Then there was that incident at the 2018 Oscars, in which Frances McDormand won her second Oscar, for her portrayal of a bereaved mother in Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. He disappeared during the official afterparty, the Governors Ball. A man named Terry Bryant, who had a ticket to the event, was captured in a video posted on social media holding it and declaring that he himself won it. “Who wants to congratulate me?” he said. While Bryant was arrested that same night, the criminal theft charge finally brought against him was dropped in August 2019. McDormand’s treasure was immediately returned to her.
This year’s Oscar is scheduled for April 25, later than usual, because of the pandemic COVID-19.
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