List of Academy Award trophies on public display

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The following table lists Academy Awards held in museums and public collections:

YearAwardAward RecipientFilmCurrent locationCountryAcquisition DateNotes
1927/28 Best Actor in a Leading Role Emil Jannings The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh Filmmuseum Berlin, BerlinGermanyUnknown [1]
1930/31 Best Story John Monk Saunders The Dawn Patrol Flight Museum, Seattle, Washington United StatesUnknownDisplayed alongside a jacket worn by Errol Flynn in the remake, eight years later. [2]
1931/32 Honorary Walt Disney Creation of Mickey Mouse The Magic of Disney Animation, Bay Lake, Florida United StatesUnknownDisplayed along with several other Academy Awards won by Disney. However, the others in the case are noted on their plaques as being replicas "for studio display case". [3]
1932/33 Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn Morning Glory National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. United States2009Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. [4]
1937 Best Story William A. Wellman and Robert Carson A Star is Born Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts United StatesUnknownPart of the Robert Carson Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. [5] [6]
1938 Best Adapted Screenplay George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire England1950Displayed alongside Shaw's Nobel Prize in a display case, covered by a green cloth. [7]
1939 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Hattie McDaniel Gone With the Wind Chadwick Boseman College of Fine Arts, Howard University, Washington, D.C. United States1952, replaced 2023A plaque rather than a statue; stolen c.1969 and replaced by the Academy. [8] [9]
1942 Best Documentary Feature John Ford The Battle of Midway International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C. United StatesUnknown [10]
Ken G. Hall Kokoda Front Line! National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Acton, Australian Capital Territory Australia2015 [11]
1945 Best Documentary Feature The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America The True Glory Imperial War Museum North, Trafford Park, Greater Manchester United KingdomUnknown [12]
1949 Best Costume Design, Color Leah M. Rhodes Adventures of Don Juan Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur, TexasUnited StatesUnknownDisplayed in the Notable People Section of the Museum (second floor)
1951 Best Actress in a Leading Role Vivien Leigh A Streetcar Named Desire Victoria and Albert Museum, London United KingdomUnknownDisplayed in the theatre and stage exhibition. [13]
Best Documentary Feature Olle Nordemar Kon-Tiki Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo Norway1952Displayed in the same room as the original Kon-Tiki raft. The film is screened every day at noon in the museum cinema. [14]
Honorary Gene Kelly Achievement in choreography on film Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts United StatesUnknownPart of the Gene Kelly Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. [15] [5]
1954 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Frank Sinatra From Here to Eternity Sinatra restaurant, Encore Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada United StatesUnknown [16]
1955 Best Effects, Special Effects Walt Disney Studios 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Walt Disney: One Man's Dream, Bay Lake, Florida United StatesUnknownDisplayed with props from the film in a special case. [3]
1959 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam Netherlands1976Donated by Winters to The Anne Frank House in 1976. Displayed inside the museum. [17]
Best Documentary Feature Bernhard Grzimek Serengeti Shall Not Die Haus der Geschichte, Bonn GermanyUnknown [18]
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Bob Hope Bob Hope Memorial Library, Ellis Island National Museum, New York City United States2008Hope came to the United States through Ellis Island. The statuette is displayed with other Hope memorabilia at the library entrance. [19]
1961 Best Short Subject, Cartoons [20] Dušan Vukotić Surogat Zagreb City Museum, Zagreb CroatiaUnknownInside the Animation History exhibit. [21]
1962 Best Actor Maximilian Schell Judgment at Nuremberg Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main Germany2019 [22]
1964 Best Actor in a Leading Role Rex Harrison My Fair Lady Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts United StatesUnknownPart of the Rex Harrison Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. [15] [5]
Best Art Direction, Black-and-White Vassilis Photopoulos Zorba the Greek Benaki Museum, Athens Greece2007Displayed in the Ghika Gallery on the Third Floor. [23]
Best Documentary Short Subject Charles Guggenheim Nine from Little Rock National Archives, Washington, D.C. United States2007Displayed outside of The William McGowan Theater. [24]
1966 Best Actor in a Leading Role Paul Scofield A Man for All Seasons Victoria and Albert Museum, London United Kingdom2011 [25]
1967 Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. United States2009Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. [4]
1968 Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn The Lion in Winter National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. United States2009Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. [4]
1969 Best Documentary Feature Bernard Chevry Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life Museum of the City of Łódź, Łódź Poland2001Displayed with awards given to Arthur Rubinstein. [26]
1971 Best Original Song Isaac Hayes Shaft Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, Tennessee United States2011"Sits on a pedestal in the museum not far from Hayes' custom 1972 gold-trimmed, peacock-blue Cadillac Eldorado" [27]
1974 Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation Marvin Hamlisch The Sting Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. United States2015Displayed on the first floor at the library’s Music Division, in its Performing Arts Reading Room, along with all of Hamlisch's other awards. [28]
Best Music, Original Dramatic Score The Way We Were
Best Music, Original Song
1978 Honorary Museum of Modern Art Department of Film Film preservation and promotion efforts Museum of Modern Art, New York City United States1979Awarded "for the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form." Displayed in the lobby of the museum.
1981 Best Picture David Puttnam Chariots of Fire National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire EnglandUnknown [29]
Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn On Golden Pond National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. United States2009Displayed along with three other Academy Awards won by Hepburn. [4]
1985 Best Art Direction Josie MacAvin Out of Africa Irish Film Institute, Dublin Ireland1992Donated to the IFI in 1992. [30]
1988 Academy Scientific and Technical Award Ray Dolby and Ioan Allen Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, California United StatesUnknown [31] [ failed verification ]
1989 Best Sound Russell Williams II, Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff and Elliot Tyson Glory National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. United States2015Donated by Russell Williams [32]
1990 Best Sound Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins and Russell Williams II Dances with Wolves National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. United States2015Donated by Russell Williams [33]
Honorary Myrna Loy Mugar Memorial Library, Boston, Massachusetts United States1994Part of the Myrna Loy Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Displayed on the fifth floor of the library. [5] [34]
2003 Best Foreign Language Film Denys Arcand The Barbarian Invasions TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, Ontario CanadaUnknownDisplayed near the entrance to the home of the Toronto International Film Festival
Best Animated Short Film Adam Elliot Harvie Krumpet Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Victoria AustraliaUnknownDisplayed in the Screen Worlds gallery. [35]
2005 Best Adapted Screenplay Larry McMurtry Brokeback Mountain Booked Up bookstore, Archer City, Texas United States2006Displayed inside the entrance to McMurtry's bookstore, alongside his Golden Globe for the same screenplay. McMurtry died in 2021. The bookstore was sold in 2022 and again in 2024, this time to a non-profit organization with the plans to open the Larry McMurtry Literary Center. [36] [37]
Best Original Song Three 6 Mafia Hustle & Flow Memphis Music Hall of Fame, Memphis, Tennessee United StatesUnknownDisplayed in the Three 6 Mafia exhibit. [38]
Numerous Varied Walt Disney Various works Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, California United States2009Displays Disney's 27 individual Academy Awards. [39]

See also

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